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A second thing I would call you to is, while you use Ordinances, to take heed of resting in, and of resting contented with Ordinances; an Ordinance of God, without the God of the Ordinance, what an empty glass is it? There is a vision of Ordinances, and there is a vision in Ordinances; oh take not up with that without this; pray for such a spirit as he had, whose voice it is, Psal. 63.1. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee: David was now in the wilderness, banished from the Tabernacle and Ark, Altars, (those legal Ordinances of the Sanctuary) I but it is not the bare Ordinances that will serve his turn, but God in the Ordinances, thee, thee, my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee.

Oh Christians, let the same mind be in you which was in holy David, make God the object of your vision, in your Evangelical attendances; God commands it, Seek ye my face, Psal. 27.8. Seek the Lord, and seek his strength, and seek his face evermore, Psal. 105.4. Oh let your hearts echo with David's, Thy face, Lord, will I seek, or (as it may be read) Let my face, Lord, seek thy face: What he meaneth by the face of God, and so by (thee, thee) in the 63. Psalm, he expounds himself, ver. 2. That I may see thy power and thy glory in the Sanctuary, namely, the powerful and glorious manifestations of God in his Ordinances, the manifestation of all his divine attributes and excellencies, that which God offered unto Moses, Exod. 33.23. and which our Lord promiseth to all his loving and obedient Disciples; ¹He that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest my self unto him; yea, Father and Son, ver. 23. we will come, and make our abode with him: This is the [Greek or Hebrew], the height and altitude of our Gospel vision, as God told Moses, thou shalt see my back-parts; the face of God, the vision of God,