unless it agree with the Pattern in the Mount and be prescribed by the Lord of the House 4. Let us offer up all our worship by Christ God in Christ is the object of Divine Worship To goe to God in our Prayers or other Services immediately to God out of or without Christ is to lye in our services That General Rule of Doing all in the Name of the Lord Jesus Col. â— 17. holds most strictly in point of worship All our prayers are to be made in his Name Job 14. 41. And all our praises are to be Offered up by him Heb. 13. 15. Otherwise what-ever of Labour Care Zeal Cost may be put into our Oblations if there be nothing of Christ in them they signify nothing at all with God they are Lame Blind Lean and Dead Sacrifices and will be most displeasing in Gods most Pure Eies and the savour of them very offensive to his Nostrils if not perfumed with the Incense of his Merits which he is Offering up with the prayers of the Saints 5. See that our Hearts be in the worship fervently and frequently make that necessary Prayer Ps 119. â—0 Let my Heart be sound in thy Statutes especially sound in thy Statutes and my performances about Worship because God is eminently Jealous there Daily make Davids prayer That God will remove from us the way of lying Psal 119. 29. And that particularly when we draw near unto God in worship that we may do it with a true Heart Heb. 10. 22. Ingage the Heart to go along with our Bodies and Tongues when addressing the Heart-searching God yea do not only carry our Hearts thither but by an extraordinary care and watchfulness keep them there that they may not give you the slip and so render all your worship successless because heartâ—ess Then only do you worship God in Spirit and Truth when your Hearts are sincerely active in what you do Dare not offer unto God that which cost you nothing but a little Breath and Lip-labour remember that your Heart gives value to your two Mites the least piece of Hearty Service is in high esteem with God 6. Finally â—et our constant Walk be always consonant to our Worship our Deportment agreeable to our Devotions our whole Conversations such as become such Worshippers A loose Conversation gives the lye to a specious profession If what be said in words is contradicted in works God will call it lying and deceit Tit. 1. 16. To be zealous and warm in our Worship but luke warm and carnal in our Walk is most absurd and Contradictory Let us Live our Hearing Praying Sabbaths Sacraments c. and then we worship well And if we do indeed worship well our worship to God will observably Influence all our converse with men And Oh how amiable and pleasant is an Harmonious Agreement there And how unseemly the contrary That men walk no better before and after worship is an ill sign of their being insincere and false and deceitful in it To Conclude Thus you have heard one more very common and provoking sin declaimed against And note that when the Lord gave the Prophet Isa 58. 1. c. his Commission To shew unto his people their Transgressions And to the house of Jacob their sins this was the first sin that he directed him to lift up his voice and sound his Trumpet against There was much Worship but little Holiness many Sacrifices but no Righteousness frequent Approaches to God but little Walking with him And it 's evident that their design in these external performances was to conceal or get allowance for their wickedness as appears by quarrelling God that he took no more notice of their Fastings nor gave them expected Answers to their Prayers though the Lord sufficiently stopt their mouth by letting them know that while they lived in such palpable neglect of the Second-Table-Duties their pretended compliance with the First could very little avail them Of the like import is Psal 50. and Isa 1. in the latter of which he plainly tells them That the multitude of their Sacrifices was to no purpose they did but trouble him and not profit themselves God bids them give over verse 13. Not that he did abate them these Sacrifices or will abate us our Devotion no but bring no more vain Oblations so does God say to us bring no more lying Services make no more deceitful Prayers let me have no more of these formal Hypocriticâ—l Assemblings Upon the penalty of losing all our Prayers we had better lose all the Comforts we have in the World than lose our Prayers Upon the penalty of having them turned into sin a dreadful 〈◊〉 on upon Judas that monstrous Hypocriâ—e as appears by comparing Psal 109. 7. with Act. â— 20. and that which every such dissembling Worshipper may be afraid of Upon the penalty of losing all gracious converse with God of blocking up the way to prevent any good coming at thee for ever of having the Lord to kindle a fire in his Jealousie that shall burn to the lowest Hâ—ll of his rending thee in pieces there be none to deliver thee I say upon all these penalties and they are terrible ones leave off presently and utterly leave off All lying dissembling with God in his Worship Do not cast off worship because it is so dangerous to intermeddle with but engage in it sincerely heartily with Reverence godly fear shun the lying deceit that too often does attend it comply with the sincerity painfulness care conscience that always should attend it Sincerity will God approve of and countenance Infirmity especially when bemoaned resisted he will forgive overlook all the expence we are at in Worshipping God in spirit truth will be plentifully compensated by fulfilling that promise Exo. 20. 23. In all places where I record my name I will come unto thee and I will Bless thee FINIS
of it among Gods visible people yea too much among those that may have the Root of the matter in them and also because it 's very provoking to God and mischievous to them that use it Now I call that Formal Worship which is opposed to that which is in reality Paul opposes a Form of Godliness to the power of it 2 Tim. 3. 5. Such Pretenders make Perilous Times He intends such Persons as used an appearance without any reality a shew without any substance They made a profession of Godliness and used much Pretensive Devotion in Worship but there was nothing in it save an appearance and shadow only Vox preterea nihil an empty Form no powerful sincerity in their heart nor good fruit in their life And this Vizard men put on to deceive that they may walk incoginto in the World Formal Worship is Hypocritical Worship like a painted Tomb without but Corruption Rottenness within Fire without and Frost within A flame in the mouth but Ice in the Heart A perfect piece of Pageantry a Play where he that is in shew a King is in Reallity a Beggar Such lying Worship is thus Described by Christ Mat. 15 8 9. Drawing near to God with the Lip when the Heart is far from him near in look and gestures but far in heart and spirit this is the spirit of an Hypocrite When out of any low base inferiour end men are drawn or driven to those duties which indeed they have no Heart to this the Lord accounts lying in his Worship And the more external Preparations the more Cost and Grandeur there is in it the bigger the lye Christ reduceth all our Obedience whether in point of Worship or otherwise unto that one word Love now if not loving Worship its lying Worship there is an Idol in the Heart which has their Love while God has their Lips only they pretend Devotion to God but the Idol in the Heart has the Heart all the while When the Heart and Body do not go together in the Service of God the Body shews much love but the Heart is otherwise imployed Ezek 33 31. This lying worship is opposed to worshipping God in Spirit and Truth John 4. 24. Paul served God with his spirit Rom. 1. 9. But their Spirits Soul and Hearts are not concerned or engaged and so there is no Truth in their services because no Spirit in them they are not spiritual and so cannot be true for it is Truth in the inward parts that God requires Psal 51 6. Ephraim was called a silly Dove without an Heart Hos 7 11. And that is a silly sorry Sacrifice that has no heart in it nor can it be acceptable to God Who chiefly minds the Heart Jer. 30. 21. 22. And as the heart is to go with it so the Conversation is to be consonant thereto Want of either makes the worship a lye As a man thinks in his heart so is he Prov. 23. 7. But that is known to God only and himself But when the Conversation contradicts the Devotion his deceitfulness is Obvious to men also Tit. 1. 16. and here Christ gives this Direction for the knowing of men by their fruits Mat. 7. 16. And if the Heart be false the Conversation will not be right for the Heart governs the Conversation If the Heart go not with the tongue the Walk will to the Prudent observer at least often give the Tongue the lye but if heart and tongue joyns the Conversation among men will evidence 〈…〉 the sincerity toward God Now such Worship is called Lying deceiving 1. Lying which is either Verbal or Practical Verbal lying when he speaks not the Truth in his Heart Psal 15 2. Affirming that to be Truth which he knows to be untruth or doth not know to be Truth or denying that to be Truth which he knows at least thinks to be Truth or knows not but that it may be Truth Practical Lying is when a man pretends and professes what he neither intends nor performs when his works deny what his words Profess this is practical lying he lies in his way though he speaks right in his words â—it 1. 6. He assumes the Name of Religion but he practically denies the thing which consists not in words but in Power in Love in Righteousness Holiness Self-denial Mortification c. to which he is a stranger And this is the Lying which the Lord blames them for here and threatens else where Isa 1. 10. 16. Isa 58. 1 7. with Psal 50. 7. 22. 2. It 's called Deceit also They compass me with Deceit Thus Mal. 1. 14. He that has a Male in his Flock and offers a corrupt thing to the Lord is called a Deceiver and such an oblation is a piece of meer deceit A Deceiver is a sly subtil under hand Dealer one that plays Leger-de-main that cogs and cheats and designs to put a sham upon another and this is the aim and spirit of a Formatist in Gods Worship he contrives to put a cheat upon God indeed to mock him Gal. 6 7. And such a Worshipper is called a Deceiver 1. Because he defrauds the glorious God of his just due and of the true Homage and Service which belongs to him from his Creatures It 's true God cannot properly be deceived but he offers at it does what he may towards it and like a foolish ignorant Atheist imagines he may do it thinks God will not see when he turns him off with a bad Sacrifice for a good one a corrupt and lame one for a sound one Job 22. 12 14. Thus he robs God of his Right sends away the Heart about other business and complements God with a little Bodily Exercise or Tongue-Devotion The worm of his Lust doth eat the Kernel and then with some seeming solemnity he makes the Heart-searching and Heart-demanding God a Present of the empty shell A very shameful and affronting Cheat. 2. It may be called a piece of Deceit because it does really deceive others men that can only judge by the outward appearance are utterly deceived by him Samuel was deceived by Eliahs look and Philip by Simon Magus's Profession Come see my zeal for the Lord was enough to have Blinded a Jonadab save that the load Trumpeting his own commendation was too much like an Hypocrite Oh thinks a good and charitable Christian this is certainly an Excellent Man see his Parts Zeal Affection c. and his aim being to seem Religious before men he puts himself in his finest dress when he appears upon the Stage in open view turns the best side outward when he has a great many Spectators while a sincere Soul whose business is to approve himself to God is most engaged and enlarged in his Closet where none but he that sees in Secret can observe him 3. But finally he is called a Deceiver because he doth most miserably and fatally deceive himself Jam. 1. 22 26. He puts a Paralogism or Fallacy upon himself argues falsly
Heathen that never performed any duty of Worship to God in their lives While some Drink and Swear and Curse and Damn themselves to Hell others pray and â—ear themselves thither and into a deeper and hotter Hell too then others arrive at For men to-destroy themselves with a great deal of pains labour cost splendor and grandeur is the worst kind of Destruction Your Lying Deceitful Services and Performances are both the pretences that you Compass God with and the sparks that you Compass and comfort your selves with but the Reward you will receive at the hands of God will be to lye down in sorrow Isa 50. ult Such Worshippers of God are nevertheless counted forgotters of God and their Doom is To be Torn in Pieces without any to deliver them Psal 50 22. The Benefit of True and Sincere Worshipping of God This is a large Theam I shall but glance at a few hints What is said of keeping Gods Commandments in General Great is the Reward Psa 9. 11. is eminently true of the second Commandment which gives direction about Instituted Worship see Exod. 20. 6. And if you referr it to the Third Commandment where the Lord threatens the Breaker of it Not to â—old him guilâ—less it is a Meiosis and sorest wrath is intended therein and on the other-hand all manner of blessings are designed for the keeper of that Command If the Deceiver in Worship be Cursed Mala. 1 11. Then the sincere Worshiper is blessed Blessed with all spiritual blessings God accepts his Services remembers his Offerings will give him pardon peace joy the strength of his Right Hand c. see Psal 20. 1 6. He shall see the Lords goings in his Sanctuary And shall be able to attest to Davids Experience Psal 84. 10 One day in Gods House is worth a Thousand Blessed with all outward blessings also Seeking the Kingdom of God first of which no small part lies in a right performing the worship of the Kingdom has a promise of the Addition of all other things Mâ—â— 6. 33. God deâ—ls wiâ—h a professing people as they deal with him in his Worship If we Compass him with hearty sincere service he will Compasâ—â—â— with favour as with a Shield Psal â— 12 Mercy shall Compass us no good thing shall be waâ—â—ing to us While such kind of formal worshippers of whom we have been speaking say as they feel that it is in vain to serve God we shall speak as we find That it is good for us to draw near unto God Psal 23. 28. Directions for the Cure of this Malady 1. Be sure we fix upon the right and there is but one right Object of Worship Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve Mat. 4. 10. The great God is the sole Object of Worship Let us not make our Bellies our God Gold our Hope the World our portion nor our own Righteousness Wisdom or Strength our Idol nor our selves our Saviours Sacrifice not to our own Net nor burn Incense to our own Drag Hab. 1. 16. 2. Be well acquainted with the Person whom we Worship and that will oblige us what we may to study a proportion between our Worship and the Object of our Worship The Knowledge of God will teach us that he is to be Worshipped and also how he is to be Worshipped will make us fear to neglect it and assist us in the due performance of it To cure the Deceiver that had a Male in his flock but offered a corrupt thing the Lord gives him to understand and wills him to consider that he was a Great King and had a Dreadful Name even the Lord of Hosts Mal. 1. 14. His being a Spirit will tell us that he is to be Worshipped in Spirit and Truth not after a carnal and lying manner Consider him as the first Being chiefest Good thence learn that the first best of our Hearts Abilities Time Spirits Souls are his due and that lame blind heartless lifeless Services are very much unbecoming him His Soveraignty as it commands Devotion so it will guard us from snuffing at his Service or sâ—ubbering over his Worship His Omnipresence will beget Reverence and promote Sincerity It 's no great matter how men carry it before an Idol that has no eyes but Reason much more Religion will direct us to look to our selves when we have such an eye upon us and will be useful to prevent that commonness of Heart and Carriage so unsuitable for his Presence His Omniscience will assure us that he will not be shamm'd nor imposed upon there 's no mocking him with shadows or pretences he is not to be treated after that manner He will say to every Hypocrite tho' under the greatest disguise why feignest thou thy self to be another person I have heavy Tidings for thee and a Curse upon the Deceiver is heavy Tidings His Omnipotence will represent him as a person that has in a readiness wherewith to avenge all Affronts and to assist all the Humble Souls that desire to serve him better His Holiness tells us that we must lift up holy hands and hearts before him and purge our selves in order to our being Vessels fitâ—ed for our Masters use His Justice will caution us from taking his Name in vain because he will not holâ— us Guiltless and when we take up his Worship without spirit heart life care labour seriousness we take his Name in vain His Bounty and Goodness will quicken us to serve him with Enlargedness of Heart who hath such a liberal hand to reward all his Servants His Truth and Faithfulness as they will put us beyond dispute about the certainty of the Reward if we serve him well so of the Punishment if trifling and slightly therein Thus right Conceptions of God will notably influence you into right Worship a due performance of it 3. Study well the right way in which God will be Worshipped and his own way is the only right way He hath plainly told us in his Word how he will be Worshipped if we bring him any other Worship than that of his own prescribing he will call it lying and deceit Beware therefore that none spoil you through vain deceit after the Traditions of men Col. 2. 8. A very good caution for Traditions of men in the Worship of God will spoil our Worship and spoil us also aand are rightly called deceitful and vain because they take us off from the only true acceptable and profitable Service of God Resolve upon it either Bible-Worship or none at all all other being as yea worse than none It 's lying worship if not warranted by God's Word whatever pretences it may make to Decency in it self or Authority from men Traditions from our Fore-fathers or the Commands of the Church God will say of it Bring no more vain oblations who has required these things at your hands Nor will God take it as an answer if we say that Ecclesiastical Authority enjoyned it
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 Sacrâ—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 cheaâ— 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 honeâ—â—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 â—et is infused Grace the exercise of that sincerity in Worship is exciting Grace
all Grace takes away all occasion of boasting There are some actings of pride in the best to their shame and confusion of face when they reflect thereupon but usually or mostly they are false in their Worship that trust to it and of them it may be said they trust to a Refuge of Lies and under falshood do they hide themselves Isa 28. 15. Because all their Worship is so Were our Services never so good yet if trusted in when we have done them we make a lye an Idol of them and shall find them to be a lye to us much more when there is so much dâ—ceit attending the best of our doings and so much lameness leanness and deformity in the chiefest of our Sacrifices 3. Hence see also the reason why God is angry oft times at the Prayers of his People viz. because he haâ—es lying of which he finds so much in them Psal 80. 4 And hence there is so little success in praying so few Answers of their Prayers Those that are lying Services to God will be lying Services to us also nothing will come of them but Provocation and Punishment We know that God heareth not Sinners Joh. 9. 31. Lyars and Deceiters as they shall not dwell with him Psal 101. 7. so neither shall their Services come before him with Acceptance Let none of us that are conscious to our selves of a great deal of that Guilt in our Services quarrel with God and say Wherefore have we fasted and thou seest not Isa 58. 3. That Context will answer them and us and this Text will stop our mouths It 's said Hab. 3. 7. The labour of the Olive fails it is in the Hebrew lies i. e. their labour about the Olive in planting pruning dressing from which they expect some fruit produces nothing nothing comes of it so will the labour of such a Worshipper prove his Prayer was a lye to God and it is very just it should be â—ound a lye to him USE II. Of Conviction Let this Doctrine also be improved unto Conviction and upon due serious and strict Examination Conviction will follow Is there not too too much of this lying Worship to be found among us Here is a great deal of worship and many Worshippers And those Worshippers that seek God daily and approach into his presence frequently are either Regenerate or Unregenerate for we may not believe that all outward Worshippers are inwardly sincere Now as to the Vnregenerate especially if they are so knowingly and continue so contentedly all their worship is a meer lye all their devotion is a meer cheat and so an abomination unto God they do nothing else but beleagure and beset him with lies are always fighting God with their lies and many perhaps the Body of Israel whom the Lord thus treats in the Text were such As to the Regenerate they are not wholly freed from this way of lying there are some Remains of Guile and Hypocrisie which like dead flies are dropping into and corrupting the Oyntment or Incense of their best Performances And for our Conviction let us look back on the particular Instances given in the several parts of Worship besides what further Reflections every diligent curious self-examiner may make upon himself Think with our selves what a Trade of lying we have driven with God how many of those Abominations we have wrought in his sight how many plain lyes we have told him to his face and let us be vile in our own eyes in that we have so often done that which is so vile in his The Lord expects very deep Humiliation for our so great and frequent Dissimulation in his Worship whatever Infirmities God may bear withal in his Children he will not tolerate lying in them dealing falsely in his Worship we must very particularly repent of and reform USE III. Let this serve for a word of solemn Dehortation from this great and frequent sin that is so commonly found in the midst of us Oh all ye VVorshippers of God be perswaded to put away your lying and let your deceit no longer lodg with you Do not come to the House of God to tell him a pack of lies from day to day Trouble him with no more deceitful and vain oblations for shame leave off lying Paul charges them Eph 4. 25. with Col. 3. 9. to put away lying one to another But this Doctrine presents us with a more solemn and necessary charge and that which if taken notice of and complied with would curge the other Lye not to the God of Truth Eli was mistaken when he said to Hannae 1. Sam. 1. 14. How long wilt thou be drunk put away thy Wine But alass that there should be such just cause to say to many VVorshippers in the House of God How long will you tell 〈◊〉 in Gods VVorship put away your deceit from you so inforce this Disswasive Let us consider 1. The Greatness of the sin 2. The â—oreness of the punishment 3. The good of performing true Worship in a right and sincere manner 1. The greatness of the sin 1. It is Lying And I need say no more It 's a sin though so generally practised yet every where spoken against It is a sin which mans corrupt nature is dreadfully addicted to they go astray from the Womb speaking lies Psal 58. 3. And yet it is a sin condemned by the light of nature condemned by the verdict of every mans Conscience that is not blinded or bribed asleep or seared Men hate to be imposed upon with lies and will be more ready to forgive a very great fault than a little one when aggravated with lying It 's reckoned among the seven Abominations that the Lord hates Prov. 6 16. â—0 yea and accounted big enough to make two of the seven if not three of tâ—em though in a different sense 2. But more than so it 's lying to God and that sin cost Ananias and Sapphird their lives Act. 5 4 c. And it 's no small wonder of Patience and Long-suffering that the Lord makes no more such Examples among the great Troops of lying Worshippers that compass him every day especially considering what a jealous God he is in point of Worship To have a Company of Hypocrites come before God from time to time only to fill his ears with lies must needs be highly provoking and it is very strange that the Angel of the Lord is not sent forth to make them all dead Corpses Spiritual Judgments are doubtless secretly inflicted upon them which are the more dreadful because the less observable 3. It 's rank Atheism nor could men persist in such a course if they did realize the Being of God or had not in their own imaginations framed to themselves a God like themselves According to our sentiments of God in our Hearts so are our Carriages toward him in his Worship Deceitful Worshiping of him speaks us very much deceived in our Conceptions about him 4. It iâ— extream insolence daring boldness and