An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

First, It noteth the publicness of their way of Idolatry. They would not do it in a corner, in a hole, but they would go to the mountains,¹ to the top of the mountains and were not ashamed. Idolatry is brazen faced, it is impudent and loveth to be public. Use. Oh why should we not have the true worship of God as public! It is a lamentable case when the true worship of God must get into holes and corners and dare not appear in public; yea when they are persecuted because they are in corners and they say they get into holes and corners and there they do thus and thus. Well my brethren, let us pray and endeavour what we can to bring in the true worship of God to the most public way that may be, that we may not be ashamed of it in public before the world. In Revel. 14.6.² there is mention of an Angel flying in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel in his hand to preach unto them that dwell on the earth; Now it is ordinary in the Revelation to set out the Ministry of the Gospel by an Angel, and so it is a prophecy of the Ministry of the Gospel, that it shall fly in Heaven, aloft, publicly, that all the world shall see it. And mark what follows upon this, verse 8. And there followed another Angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen. So that the Note from thence is,³ That when the Ministry of the Gospel and the Ordinances of the Gospel comes to be made openly public, then is the time for Babylon to fall, and so long as Babylon stands and Antichrist stands so long is the Gospel fain to be preached in corners, but when the time of Babylons fall cometh then shall the Ministry of the Gospel be in Heaven, above, in the eyes of all the people, in a public way.

First, It noteth the publickness of their way of Idolatry. They would not do it in a corner, in a hole, but they would go to the mountains,¹ to the top of the mountains and were not ashamed. Idolatry is brazen faced, it is impudent and loveth to be publick. Use. Oh why should we not have the true worship of God as publick! It is a lamentable case when the true worship of God must get into holes and corners and dare not appear in publick; yea when they are persecuted because they are in corners and they say they get into holes and corners and there they do thus and thus. Well my brethren, let us pray and endeavor what we can to bring in the true worship of God to the most publick way that may be, that we may not be ashamed of it in publick before the world. In