A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

8. When ye come to the place of public worship, if it be ⟨p. 293⟩a while a beginning, be still watchful, and the nearer ye come to it the more watchful; for temptations will be very ready to divert or discompose; there would be a frequent intermixture of ejaculatory prayers in reference to every thing requisite for attaining and entertaining this composedness.

8. When ye come to the place of publick worship, if it be ⟨p. 293⟩a while a beginning, be still watchful, and the nearer ye come to it the more watchful; for temptations will be very ready to divert or discompose; there would be a frequent intermixture of ejaculatory prayers in reference to every thing requisite for attaining and intertaining this composedness.

9. When public worship beginneth, study to be (as Cornelius was, Acts 10.) present to join in prayer, and praise, to hear what God will say, to receive it, to l •y it up in your hearts, to be suitably affected with it, and to resolve through grace to practice it; (for blessed are they only who hear the word and do it): and this would be with delight, aiming aright at the end of the Ordinances, whatever they be, whereof we spoke somewhat on the second Commandment.

9. When publick worship beginneth, study to be (as Cornelius was, Acts 10.) present to joyn in prayer, and praise, to hear what God will say, to receive it, to l •y it up in your hearts, to be sutably affected with it, and to resolve through grace to practice it; (for blessed are they only who hear the word and do it): and this would be with delight, aiming aright at the end of the Ordinances, whatever they be, whereof we spoke somewhat on the second Commandement.