Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

3. Weariness in it evidenceth it. To be weary of our dullness signifies a desire; to be weary of service signifies a discontent, to be ruled by God: How tired are we in the performance of Spiritual duties, when in the vain triflings of time we have a perpetual motion? How will many willingly revel whole nights, when their hearts will flag at the Threshold of a Religious service? Like Dagon, ^*lose, both our heads to think, and hands to act, when the Ark of God is present: Some in the Prophet wished the new Moon and the Sabbath over, that they might sell their Corn, and be busied again in their worldly affairs:^* A slight and weariness of the Sabbath, was a slight of the Lord of the Sabbath, and of that freedom from the Yoke and rule of sin, which was signified by it. The design of the Sacrifices in the new Moon, was to signify a rest from the tyranny of sin, and a consecration to the Spiritual service of God. Servants that are quickly weary of their work, are weary of the Authority of their Master, that enjoins it: If our hearts had a value for God, it would be with us as with the needle to the Load-stone; there would be upon his beck a speedy motion to him, and a fixed union with him. When the Judgments and affections of the Saints shall be fully refined in glory, they shall be willing to behold the face of God and be under his Government ⟨p. 66⟩to Eternity, without any weariness. As the holy Angels, have owned God as their Sovereign near these six thousand years, without being weary of running on his Errands: But alas while the flesh clogs us, there will be some Relics of unwillingness to hear his Injunctions, and weariness in performing them; tho men may excuse those things by extrinsic causes, yet Gods unerring Judgment calls it a weariness of himself, Isa. 43.22. Thou hast not called upon me oh Jacob, but thou hast been weary of me ch Israel. Of this he taxeth his own people, when he tells them he would have the beasts of the Field; The Dragons and the Owls; the Gentiles, that the Jews counted no better than such, to honour him and acknowledge him their rule in a way of duty, ver. 20.21.