Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

And indeed, what greater advantages can be derived into our Souls, to make our Altars burn than what our Christian Assemblies duly managed will entertain us with? What understanding do the Inspirations of the Almighty here afford? Such curious Explications of the Name and Counsels of your God? Such large and full accounts of all the endearing Grace of Christ? Such Critical dissections and anatomizings of the state of Souls? Such over-sh•dowings of the Spirit of God? Such clear and full descriptions and accounts of the Divine Life and Nature in all their Strength and Glory? How are desires ⟨p. 331⟩invigorated and twisted to make them more effectual to our selves and others! This Sanctuary Love is like the best wine, going down sweetly, and causing the Lips even of those that are asleep to speak! Keep then to these Assemblies, that you may duly know whom, what, how and why to Love: and how to suit your selves in spirit, speech and practice towards God, your selves, and towards each other unto this generous and noble Principle. Thus will you grow exceedingly, both in the knowledge and savour of what is most considerable, and most deservingly affecting, both as to Things and Persons; for Christianity is contrived for Love and Godliness in all its Doctrines, Laws and Ordinances, and in assemblies you have the Explications, and Enforcements of those Truths; which will complete the Man of God, as to his Principles, Disposition and Behaviour. Here you may know your most holy Faith as to it's matter, evidences, and designs upon you; and it's improvableness by you to it's determined and declared ends and services; That Faith which is to illuminate your Eyes; to exercise your thoughts, to fix your holy purposes, to form and cherish expectations, to raise desires, to embolden prayer, to fire your affections, and regulate them as to their Objects, Ends, and Measures, and Expressions: And when you there attend, you are in the way of Blessings. How oft, and evidently, are Divine Truths, there sensibly sharpened and succeeded by the God of Truth? Rom. i. 16. Paul and Barnabas so spake, as that a Multitude believed of Jews and Gentiles, Act. xiv. 1. And thither must you and I resort, and there attend for Doctrine, Exhortation, and Instruction, in Righteousness. The Priests Lips must preserve Knowledge, how to speak of God, with him and for him;