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Let me add this; let us affect our hearts with a sense of what supplies we ha•• met with in former worship: The delightful remembrance of what conver•• we have had with God in former worship, would spiritualize our hearts for the present worship. Had Peter had a view of Christs glory in the Mount, fresh in his thoughts, he would not so easily have turned his back upon his Master: Nor would the Israelites have been at leisure for their Idolatry, had they preserved the sense of the Majesty of God discovered in his late Thunders from Mount Sinai.

Let me add this; let us affect our hearts with a sense of what supplies we ha•• met with in former worship: The delightful remembrance of what conver•• we have had with God in former worship, would spiritualize our hearts for the present worship. Had Peter had a view of Christs glory in the Mount, fresh in his thoughts, he would not so easily have turned his back upon his Master: Nor would the Israelites have been at leasure for their Idolatry, had they preserved the sense of the Majesty of God discovered in his late Thunders from Mount Sinai.

6. If any thing intrudes that may choke the Worship, cast it speedily out. We cannot hinder Satan and our own Corruption from presenting Coolers to us, but we may hinder the success of them: We cannot hinder the Gnats from buzzing about us when we are in our business, but we may prevent them from settling upon us. A man that is running on a considerable Errand, will shun all unnecessary discourse that may make him forget or loiter in his business. What though there may be something offered that is good in it self; yet if it hath a tendency to despoil God of his honour, and our selves of the spiritual intentness in worship, send it away. Those that weed a Field of Corn, examine not the nature and particular virtues of the Weeds; but consider only how they choke the Corn, to which the native juice of the Soil is designed. Consider what you are about; and if any thing interpose that may divert you, or cool your affections in your present worship, cast it out.