Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general and…

Oh what a dishonour art thou to Jesus Christ, and to the freeness of his grace, that thou canst go up and down from day to day and never Worship God! Did Jesus Christ come into the world for that end for to cause thee to depart more from God? 'Tis plain out of the Word, That the duties of Gods Worship are those duties whereby the soul comes to draw nigh to God: And I beseech you Brethren, observe these men, whether there be that Holiness in their lives, that Spiritualness as there was wont to be? No, you shall find them by degrees to grow loose, yea, run sometimes into gross sins, grow many times to lying and deceiving, and to drunkenness and company-keeping: yea, to worse things by degrees: Perhaps they are at first ready to say, Is thy Servant a dead Dog that I should do this? But by departing from God they grow dead to holy duties: we find it by experience, That the Professors of Religion have not that Holiness, Heavenliness, Spiritualness as they were wont to have in former times; and no marvel, for now they keep not so nigh to God as they were wont. You that are Sea-men and Travellers, sometimes you are near the Sun, and then you are hot, but the further off the Sun you go, you grow to be colder and colder: And so those that neglect the Worship of God they go from warm Sun, they go from the light of Gods Countenance, and from the presence of God, and so they grow cold and chill, and by degrees they grow to profaneness, and it is to be feared that many of them will grow to mere Atheism.

Oh what a dishonor art thou to Jesus Christ, and to the freeness of his grace, that thou canst go up and down from day to day and never Worship God! Did Jesus Christ come into the world for that end for to cause thee to depart more from God? 'Tis plain out of the Word, That the duties of Gods Worship are those duties whereby the soul comes to draw nigh to God: And I beseech you Brethren, observe these men, whether there be that Holinese in their lives, that Spiritualness as there was wont to be? No, you shall find them by degrees to grow loose, yea, run sometimes into gross sins, grow many times to lying and deceiving, and to drunkenness and company-keeping: yea, to worse things by degrees: Perhaps they are at first ready to say, Is thy Servant a dead Dog that I should do this? But by departing from God they grow dead to holy duties: we find it by experience, That the Professors of Religion have not that Holiness, Heavenliness, Spiritualness as they were wont to have in former times; and no mervel, for now they keep not so nigh to God as they were wont. You that are Sea-men and Travellers, sometimes you are neer the Sun, and then you are hot, but the further off the Sun you go, you grow to be colder and colder: And so those that neglect the Worship of God they go from warm Sun, they go from the light of Gods Countenance, and from the presence of God, and so they grow cold and chill, and by degrees they grow to prophaness, and it is to be feared that many of them will grow to meer Athiesm.