'SSß THE HOLINESS OF PLACES OF WORSHIP. to a high degree, in his holy ordinances, where his name is recorded. May I enquire of you christians, have you never found thisprophecy fulfilled, in your former attendance, on the ordinances of divine worship ? Have you never experienced, that this promisehas been made good to you, and this divinejoy conferred upon you ? Take it as a pledge and earnest of the full satisfactions and delights of the house of God on high, and in such proportionas it makes you holy and humble. Happy Will it be for your minister, if he can sayfrom sweet experience, that he has been clothed with divine salvation, when he ministers in this place, that he has been taught to spread the savour of the knowledge of Christ, through a numerous assem- bly, in this building. Happy for thepeople, when many ofthem shall be enabled to say, I was once blind and dead, but I was here awakened into divine light and life. I was new-born in Sion, and through the grace of God I am taken outof the family of Satan, and am become a son or a daughter of the MostHigh. I was overwhelmed with fears about my soul, and with the ter- rors of God which hung about me, but here I found the wayof salvation, by Christ Jesus, made known unto me ; thus 'all my terrors were scatterred, and divinepeace was spoken to my con- science. I was pained at my heart, under a sense of my guilt, and from such a text of scripture, or from such a sermon, I found divinerest and relief. My inward corruptions were strong, my irregular passions were wont to get the victory over me, but here I met with a word of power and grace to subdue them. I was entangled with a strong temptation, and here the snare was broken. I was oppressed with heavy sorrows, and I found sup- port and comfort from the word of God, which was dispensed in thisplace : And, may this be the happy case, may this be the sal- vation and the joyof multitudes, that shall attend the future sea- -sons of worship here ! The Use. It is now time to conclude my discourse, and I shall do it by setting before you these four plain and natural les- sons, which may be derived from it. I . We may learn by this discourse, our obligations to give thanks to the Lord, for the general and special instances of his graceand goodness to us, in the things whereof 1 have been speaking. Come then and bless the Lord, all our souls, and let all that is within us bless his holy name. That he has built houses and habitations for himself, in this sinful miserable world ; that he has not banished us for ever from his sight, and retired far away and withdrawn himself for ever from such a defiled and wretched place as this earth is made by the iniquity of its inhabitants. Bless the Lord, that he has recorded his name upon any thing that we can do, or we can enjoy, and that he has permitted sinners to make any approaches to him in all the ages of mankind, since the guilt and
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