Gospel-Worship

Oh what a dishonour art thou to Jesus Christ and to the freeness of his grace, that now canst go up and down from day to day and never Worship God! Did Jesus Christ come into the world to that end for to cause thee to depart more from God? 'Tis plain out of the Word, That the duties of Gods Worship are those duties whereby the Soul comes to draw nigh to God: And I beseech you brethren observe these men, whither there be that holiness in their lives, that spiritualness as there was wont to be; no, you shall find them by degrees to grow loose, yea run sometimes into gross sins, grow many times to lying and deceiving, and to drunkenness and company keeping; yea to worse things by degrees: Perhaps they are at first ready to say, Is thy Servant a dead Dog that I should do this? But by departing from God they grow dead to holy duties: We find it by experience, That the professors of Religion have not that holiness, heavenliness, spiritualness, as they were wont to have in former times. And no marvel, for now they keep not so nigh to God as they were wont. You that are Sea-men and Travellers, sometimes you are near the Sun, and then you are hot but the further off the Sun you go, you grow to be colder and colder: And so those that neglect the Worship of God, they go from the warm Sun, they go from the light of Gods countenance and from the presence of God and so they grow cold and chill, and by degrees they grow to profaneness, and it is to be feared that many of them will grow to mere Atheism.

Oh what a dishonour art thou to Jesus Christ and to the freenesse of his grace, that now canst go up and down from day to day and never Worship God! Did Jesus Christ come into the world to that end for to cause thee to depart more from God? 'Tis plain out of the Word, That the duties of Gods Worship are those duties whereby the Soul comes to draw nigh to God: And I beseech you brethren observe these men, whither there be that holinesse in their lives, that spiritualnesse as there was wont to be; no, you shall find them by degrees to grow loose, yea run sometimes into grose sins, grow many times to lying and deceiving, and to drunkenesse and company keeping; yea to worse things by degrees: Perhaps they are at first ready to say, Is thy Servant a dead Dog that I should do this? But by departing from God they grow dead to holy duties: We find it by experience, That the professors of Religion have not that holinesse, heavenlinesse, spiritualnesse, as they were wont to have in former times. And no marveile, for now they keep not so nigh to God as they were wont. You that are Sea-men and Travelours, sometimes you are neer the Sunne, and then you are hot but the further off the Sunne you go, you grow to be colder and colder: And so those that neglect the Worship of God, they go from the warm Sun, they go from the light of Gods countenance and from the presence of God and so they grow cold and chill, and by degrees they grow to prophanesse, and it is to be feared that many of them will grow to meer Athisme.