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2. In Hearing of the Word: Many people think it is enough to bring their bodies to the Assembly, but they never look to their hearts. They satisfy themselves that they have been at Church, though they have not been ⟨p. 92⟩with God there. Others go to a Sermon as to the Exchange, to hear news; new notions that please their fancy, but do not attend to the word as about a matter of life and death. They do not go to meet with Christ in an Ordinance; to have the breathings of his Spirit, and the infusions of his Love. Alas, what little violence for Heaven is to be seen in most peoples worship? In all the Sacrifices of the Law there was fire. How can those duties be accepted, which have no fire in them; no offering of violence?

2. In Hearing of the Word: Many people think it is enough to bring their bodies to the Assembly, but they never look to their hearts. They satisfie themselves that they have been at Church, though they have not been ⟨p. 92⟩with God there. Others go to a Sermon as to the Exchange, to hear news; new notions that please their phancy, but do not attend to the word as about a matter of life and death. They do not go to meet with Christ in an Ordinance; to have the breathings of his Spirit, and the infusions of his Love. Alas, what little violence for Heaven is to be seen in most peoples worship? In all the Sacrifices of the Law there was fire. How can those duties be accepted, which have no fire in them; no offering of violence?

3. If there must be this offering of ¹violence to Heaven, then it shows us how dangerous moderation in Religion is. Violence and moderation are two different things. Indeed moderation in the things of the world is commendable. We should moderate our desires here; and use the world as if we used it not