Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

Use 2. Shall be for Examination: Let us try our selves concerning the manner of our worship. We are now in the end of the world, and the dregs of time; wherein the Apostle predicts, there may be much of a form, and little of the power of Godliness^*: And therefore it stands us in hand to search into our selves, whether it be not thus with us? Whether there be as much reverence in our Spirits, as there may be devotion in our countenances and outward carriages.

Ʋse 2. Shall be for Examination: Let us try our selves concerning the manner of our worship. We are now in the end of the world, and the dreggs of time; wherein the Apostle predicts, there may be much of a form, and little of the power of Godliness^*: And therefore it stands us in hand to search into our selves, whether it be not thus with us? Whether there be as much reverence in our Spirits, as there may be devotion in our countenances and outward carriages.

1. *2 Tim. 3.1, 5.

1. How therefore are our hearts prepared to worship? Is our diligence greater, to put our hearts in an adoring posture, than our bodies in a decent garb? Or are we content to have a muddy Heart, so we may have a dressed Carcass? To have a Spirit a Cage of unclean Birds, while we wipe the filth from the outside of the Platter, is no better than a Pharisaical devotion, and deserves no better a name, than that of a whited Sepulchre.

1. How therefore are our hearts prepared to worship? Is our diligence greater, to put our hearts in an adoring posture, than our bodies in a decent garb? Or are we content to have a muddy Heart, so we may have a drest Carcass? To have a Spirit a Cage of unclean Birds, while we wipe the filth from the outside of the Platter, is no better than a Pharisaical devotion, and deserves no better a name, than that of a whited Sepulcher.