The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded

But a greater than David is here. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, did upon all Occasions declare his Delight in, and Zeal for all the Ordinances of Divine Worship, which was then in force by Virtue of Divine Institution and Command For although he severely reproved and rejected, whatever men had added thereunto under the Pretence of a Supererogating Strictness or outward Order, laying it all under that dreadful Sentence; Every Plant which my Heavenly Father hath not Planted shall be plucked up, and so cast into the Fire; yet as unto what was of Divine Appointment, his delight therein was singular, and exemplary unto all his Disciples. With respect hereunto was it said of him, that the Zeal of God's House had eaten him up, by reason of the Affliction which he had in his Spirit, to see the Worship of it neglected, polluted, and despised. This caused him to cleanse the Temple, the Seat of Divine Worship, from the Pollutors and Pollutions of it, not long before his Sufferings, in the Face and unto the high provocation of all his Adversaries. So with ⟨p. 232⟩earnest desire he longed for the Celebration of his last Passover. Luk. 22.15. With desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. And it is a sufficient Evidence of the Frame of Spirit and Practice of his Disciples afterwards. In reference to the Duties of Evangelical Worship by his Appointment; that the Apostle gives it as an assured Token of an unsound Condition, and that which tendeth to final cursed Apostasy, when any fall into a neglect of them, Heb. 10.25, 26, 27.

But a greater than David is here. Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, did upon all Occasions declare his Delight in, and Zeal for all the Ordinances of Divine Worship, which was then in force by Vertue of Divine Institution and Command For although he severely reproved and rejected, whatever men had added thereunto under the Pretence of a Supererogating Strictness or outward Order, laying it all under that dreadful Sentence; Every Plant which my Heavenly Father hath not Planted shall be plucked up, and so cast into the Fire; yet as unto what was of Divine Appoinment, his delight therein was singular, and exemplary unto all his Disciples. With respect hereunto was it said of him, that the Zeale of God's House had eaten him up, by reason of the Affliction which he had in his Spirit, to see the Worship of it neglected, polluted, and despised. This caused him to cleanse the Temple, the Seat of Divine Worship, from the Pollutors and Pollutions of it, not long before his Sufferings, in the Face and unto the high provocation of all his Adversaries. So with