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…

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.

10. When the public worship is as to its first diet closed, let not your minds turn carnal, but depart reverently from it, cheering your selves in God, fixing the convictions, exhortations, directions, instructions, &c. in your mind, as ye have met with them, and be ruminating rather on these, then beginning to gaze or discourse with others on subjects that are not spiritual, and to edification.

10. When the publick worship is as to its first diet closed, let not your minds turn carnal, but depart reverently from it, chearing your selves in God, fixing the convictions, exhortations, directions, instructions, &c. in your mind, as ye have met with them, and be ruminating rather on these, then beginning to gaze or discourse with others on subjects that are not spiritual, and to edification.