ourselves, and do the Better confult our own Good and Happiness.

But after all, no certain Rules can be laid down, that shall be equally necessary for all Persons, and at all Times. There is great Allowance to be made to Men's different Tempers, and different Circumstances and Capacities: And Men must at last be left in many Particulars to govern themselves, as their own Christian Prudence and Piety shall direct them. Only in general, All must endeavour to Serve God as well as they can, and to improve themselves by every Opportunity, that growing in Grace and Spiritual Strength, they may be able, at every Return of their Duty, to serve him still Better and Better.

If we Serve God faithfully, and do Conscientiously endeavour to Please him, we shall be working out our own Salvation; tho it be with great Imperfection, or it may be with Fear and Trembling. But we shall have more Comfort as we grow in Grace, and are advancing and going onward towards Perfection; which we should Defire and Aim at, preffing forward towards the Mark.

I shall therefore Conclude all with the Ecclus. Wiseman's Advice, When you Glorify the xliii. 30. Lord, when you are to Serve and Worship him, put forth all your Strength, and be not Weary 3 for you can never do enough, not Enough to make our Service Perfect, and truly Worthy of that High and Holy One, whom

whom we are to Serve; but Enough to make our Services Acceptable to him, and, by the Merits of our Redeemer, Sufficient and Effectual to our own Salvation: Most certainly we can never Do Too much for the Advancement of God's Glory, and the obtaining of that Crown of Life, which he has promised to all them that truly Love him, and faithfully Serve him: To Whom therefore be all Honour and Glory, and Praise, both now and for Evermore.

SERMON

SERMON VII.

What our Duties are in the House of God; And how we ought to Perform them There.

The Third SERMON on this Text.

ECCLES. V. 1.

-Keep thy Foot when thou goest to the House of God.

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HE Four Things I proposed to confider are,

I. The Institution of the Sab

bath, both Jewish and Christian.

II. What II. What Reasons we Christians have Re

ligiously to keep the Christian Sabbath.

III. How we are to Prepare ourselves for

the Duties of it in the House of God.

IV. What our Duty is There, and how we ought to perform it.

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The three Former of these I have already spoken to, and now come in the

IVth Place to confider, What our Duty is in the House of God, and how we ought to Perform it there.

For the more distinct handling of which, I shall confider,

I. The General Duty; and

II. The Particular Duties that we have

to Perform there.

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As to the Ift, The General Business or Duty that we have to perform in the House of God, is the Worship of God.

By our Worship of God, I mean Our Solemn doing Homage to him as the Lord of All; upon the Score of the transcendent Excellencies and Infinite Perfection of his Nature; which comprehends all glorious Attributes; Unsearchable Wisdom, Uncontroulable Power, and infinite Majesty, Mercy, Holiness and Truth; and all other Characters both of Greatness and Goodness in their most Superlative Degree; and as such a Being, a Being infinitely Great and Good, we Admire and Adore him.

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But we Worship him, not only as Great, and Good in himself, but as Good and Gracious unto Us; the Author and Preserver of our Beings, the Giver of all good Gifts, and of all the Blessings and Comforts we enjoy, and the Foundation of all our Hopes.

Now all the Honour and Glory that We poor Creatures are capable of doing to God, is, by our Religious Worship of him; that is, by a profound secret Veneration of his tranfcendent Excellencies in our Hearts and Minds, and by the open Acknowledgment, and Solemn Celebration of them.

This implies both an Internal and External Worship.

1. Internal or Inward Worship is Our Worshiping God with the Heart; It is the Bowing down and Humbling our Souls before him, in awful Apprehenfions of his glorious Majesty, his spotless Purity, his Unfathomable Wisdom and Almighty Power; and in full Belief of his Prefence with us, his Providence over us, and his constant Inspection of all our Actions, and into all our Thoughts: And as to what concerns Ourselves, in humble Submiffion of Ourselves, such as becomes poor Dependent Creatures before their Great Creator; and in such a deep Sense of our own Vileness and Unworthiness, as becomes Sinful Creatures before a God effentially Pure and Holy.

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