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

In the fourth place, There must be much reverence, and much fear when thou comest into the presence of God to worship him: thou doest not glorify God as God, except thou doest come into his presence with much fear & reverence of his great Name: Fear in worshipping of God it is so necessary, that many times in Scripture we find that the very Worship of God is called, The fear of God, they are put both for one; I might give you divers Scriptures for it: and hence it was that the Name of God was called the Fear of Isaac, Jacob did swear by the Fear of his father Isaac; because Isaac being a great Worshipper of God, kept his constant times to worship God, and worshipped him in such a constant way, as (except David and Daniel) we do not find mention of the constancy of any in the worshipping of God as we do of Isaac's; for it is said, that he walked but into the fields in the evening as he was wont to do, to Meditate, and to Pray; and therefore God is called, The fear of Isaac. In Psal. 89. 7. is a notable Scripture for this drawing nigh to God with fear: God is greatly to be feared in the Assembly of the Saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him: God is to be had in reverence of all them that are about him, but in the Assembly of his Saints he is greatly to be feared, he is daunting terrible (so the words are) in the Assembly of the Saints. When thou comest nigh to God, thou hadst need have thy heart possest with much fear. So in Psal. 2. 11. the Kings and Princes of the earth are called upon to serve the Lord with fear: Let them be never so great, yet when they come into Gods presence, they must serve him with fear! And so in Psal. 5. 7. In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy Temple. Now this fear of God, it must not be a servile fear, but a filial and reverential fear; For my brethren, there may be a great deal of slavish fear, where God is not honoured; there may be fear from some terrible apprehensions of God, which yet is not owned by God to be this grace of fear: I'll give you two notable Scriptures for that, in Deut. 5. 23, 24. compared with the 29. It came to pass (saith the text, vers. 23.)

In the fourth place, There must be much reverence, and much fear when thou comest into the presence of God to worship him: thou doest not glorifie God as God, except thou doest come into his presence with much fear & reverence of his great Name: Fear in worshiping of God it is so necessary, that many times in Scripture we find that the very Worship of God is called, The fear of God, they are put both for one; I might give you divers Scriptures for it: and hence it was that the Name of God was called the Fear of Isaac, Jacob did swear by the Fear of his father Isaac; because Isaac being a great Worshiper of God, kept his constant times to worship God, and worshiped him in such a constant way, as (except David and Daniel) we do not find mention of the constancy of any in the worshiping of God as we do of Isaac's; for it is said, that he walked but into the fields in the evening as he was wont to do, to Meditate, and to Pray; and therefore God is called, The fear of Isaac. In