A practical exposition of the Lord's-Prayer

3. In our Actions. Our Actions may be parted into two things; Worship, and ordinary Conversation.

1. In our Worship, there God especially will be sanctified. Lev. 10. 3. I will be sanctified in all that draw near unto me. God is very tender of his Worship: Sancta Sanctis, Holy Things must be managed by Holy Men, in a Holy Manner. Therefore what is it to sanctify God, when we draw nigh to him? To have a more excellent frame of Heart in Worship, than we have about other things. As in Prayer, the frame of our Hearts must not be common, we must not go about it with such a frame of Heart, as we go about our Callings, worldly Business, and Converses with Men; but there must be some special Reverence, such as is peculiar to him. When we draw near to God in the Word, he will be sanctified. The Word must be received with Meekness, and by Faith applied to our Souls, as an Instrument designed to our endless Good. When we have a peculiar Reverence for God, and a respect to God in all our Approaches; Eccles. 5. 1. Look to thy Feet when thou goest to the House of God: we must not go about these Holy Services Hand over Head, ⟨p. 174⟩but with great Caution and Heed. Thus is God sanctified in Worship, or in our immediate converse with him.

2. In our ordinary Conversation. Then God is sanctified; when our Life is ordered so, that we may give Men occasion to say, that surely he is a Holy God whom we serve. By two things you may know you sanctify God in your Conversations; when you walk as remembering you have a Holy God; and when you walk as discovering to others you have a Holy God.