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B09543 The great sin of formality in God's worship: or, The formal worshipper proved a lyar and deceiver. Being the subject of a sermon preacht on the weekly lecture in Boston. / By Joshua Moodey ... Moodey, Joshua, 1633?-1697. 1691 (1691) Wing M2522; ESTC W24941 19,180 50

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endure to come to it ask to have sin pardoned when they cannot part with it purged while they hold fast their deceit and refuse to let it go this is downright lying before God Jer. 8. 5. Thus we pray for the Sanctifying of his Name Coming of his Kingdom doing of his Will but in heart we are for neither of them Of such kind of addressing God in a Time of Affliction the Lord pronounces that it is but flattering and lying and that because the Heart is not right with God Psa 78. 34. 37. And so of our Thanksgiving which is also a part of Prayer when we say in words Lord we bless and praise thy Name but our hearts are not fixed to that work nor do we take due care to order our whole Conversation so as may be most for his Service and Glory Verbal praising of God with practical dishonouring of him is plain lying So when we promise to him what we never intend to perform at least never duly care to perform they that make solemn vows in the days of their distress but forget to pay them in the days of their enlargement are but lyars and deceivers 2. Of the Lying and Deceit in Hearing the Word When men hear but bare hearing is all they do Hear with the ear but never set the heart to all those things that are testified which Moses advises them unto Deut. 32. 46. Hear but not as the Word of God Acts 10. 33. Hear but do not take care and heed how they hear Hear but the heart goes after their Covetousness Ezek. 33. 31. Hear but gaze and wander the while and it may be fall fast asleep too And by the way sleeping at Meeting is visible and palpable lying especially if allowed and not to the utmost resisted and striven against Eutychus was taken in the manner Acts 20. 9. and made a solemn Monitor to waken all sleepers Hear but come with an Idol in their heart hear and go forth immediately and all they hear is lost the Word choakt and so their labour proves in vain To hear without an unfeigned Resolution to no as well as hear together with a sincere endeavour to perform what they resolve is lying and deceitful Hearing 3. At a Sacr●ment men lye to God When they do not discern the Lords Body do not make it their business to see and converse with a Crucified Christ that is there held forth When they come to a Feast but come not with an appetite to a Wedding Feast but not with a Wedding Garment come to receive a Gift but either bring or put forth no hand of Faith to take it When at the beholding of a Crucified Christ there is no mourning over him nor for their sins that Crucified him no activity of Faith though the Lord Jesus be evidently set forth as Crucified for the drawing forth of their Faith on him no inflaming of their Love by the dying Love of a dear Saviour which they are then called to a fixed meditation on the failure here speaks the neglect of what is the principal end of a Sacrament and therefore is no less than lying and deceit in Gods account however the external Deportment may appear fair and commendable before men that can only judge by the seeing of the eye and hearing of the ear 4. So we may say of the Sabbath Which is a special season for the attending on Instituted Worship If it be not kept according to the Law of the Sabbath if we do not Sanctifie the Sabbath that God may Sanctifie us on and by the Sabbath Ezek. 20. 12. If the Sabbath be not remembred and prepared for and sanctified as an Holy Rest with and unto God we do but mock God and deceive our selves If our Sabbath keeping be not a Delight it is a chea● If we only cease from servile labour but not from speaking our own words and following our carnal and sinful pleasures or if we account only that part of the day to be Sabbath which we spend in the Publick Worship and the residue of the time both before after and in the intervals of Worship be spent as common time the whole of our Sabbath keeping is Sabbath breaking and our pretences fallacious and deceitful These are some hints which the serious Hearer may easily enlarge in his Meditations I should have added here something 1. Of the greatness of this sin 2. Of the soreness of its punishment But that I chuse to bring them in either as Motives to incline us to a true and right performance of the Duties of Worship Or as Disswasives from this sin of Lying therein By way of Application First I shall draw some Inferences from the Doctrine 1. If there be such a thing as Lying and Deceitful Dealing in Gods Worship Then we have the less cause to wonder that there is so much Lying and Deceit among men in their converse with each other It 's a very lying Age that we live in Men lye one to another in falsifying their words breaking their promises yea and more solemn Obligations Men lye one of another by scandalous Reports which they raise and broach very much to the detriment of their Neighbours and reproach of Religion Yea there are that make it no small part of their business to invent frame Lies and seatter them abroad to amuse the World withal and to draw forth mens sentiments of which they make their Remarks and of which they make matter of Accusation There is also much Deceiving and Over-reaching one another in Dealing the weakest though the hone●●est goes to the wall I say there is much of this among men Think it not strange while there is so much dissembling with God himself you may look to meet with the like among men And it arises from the same principle the Atheism that is in all Mankind that which makes them dare to lie to God will not let them stick at lying to men Look for nothing but falshood and mischief from him that makes no Conscience of essaying to put his cheats upon the Great God He that will adventure to lye to God directly will not stick more remotely to lye to him as all lying to men is all sin being finally against God 2. See what little cause we have to boast of any merit in any of our Services where there is so much deceit there can be no Merit Outward Performances if they be only such are meer lies and therefore rather provocations unto God than obligations upon him Hence when they trusted to the Temple of the Lord and to their Services and Sacrifices there the Lord tells them they trusted in lying words Jer. 7. 4 8 But suppose they be sincere performances worship done in spirit and truth there will be no room for trusting in or boasting of them for the sincerity of the heart is Grace that Grace tho inherent ●et is infused Grace the exercise of that sincerity in Worship is exciting Grace