to his Commandments, to his providence, and he puts his mouth in the dust if there may be any hope, he is content to lye down under the hand of God, grudges not at it, but in quietness and silence of heart bears Gods yoke, and God is then the God of our Salvation, when we keep silence before him, Psal. 62.1. this is a solemn worship of God when in the midst of trouble, we can quietly sit down, when the soul can say, I will bear the indignation of the Lord, Mica 7.8, 9. when we see the Lords hand in all the punishments and Judgments that befall us, and we bear it willingly, this is solemnly to worship him, and to be wrought upon as clay in the hand of the Potter, and in thus doing we have him; And if the case should be, that we should come to suffer for the name of Christ, it is so far off from being matter of murmuring to a Christian man, as that he suffers not only patiently, but joyfully, and if any man suffer for the name of Christ as a Christian, let him glorify God on that behalf, for the spirit of Glory and of God shall rest upon him, 1 Pet. 4.14.16. When a man thus worships God, patiently submitting himself to him, and gives up himself in his way, to be quieted by him, this is a true worshipping of Christ, and whoever thus worships him, hath him, though we cannot yet tell whether we have faith or no, whether repentance or no, whether any true love to God or no, yet if we can find this in us, that in our hearts we thus worship the Lord Jesus, so highly prize him as the chiefest of ten thousand &c. In so doing we worship Christ and in worshipping him we have him, but on the other side, if we so look at Christ as we can prefer ten thousand other things before him, and can sit down quietly without him, if we look at Christ as a refuse commodity, no worth the cheapening, and we look at our selves as the great Omegas of the world, and we would not have our names blemished with seeking after Christ, but have greater business then that to look after, and we will be our own carvers; if so, then we do not worship Christ, and then we have him not, and so no redemption by him.
to his Commandements, to his providence, and he puts his mouth in the dust if there may be any hope, he is content to lye downe under the hand of God, grudges not at it, but in quietnesse and silence of heart bears Gods yoak, and God is then the God of our Salvation, when we keepe silence before him, Psal. 62.1. this is a solemne worship of God when in the midst of trouble, we can quietly sit down, when the soul can say, I wil bear the indignation of the Lord, Mica 7.8, 9. when we see the Lords hand in all the punishments and Judgments that befall us, and we bear it willingly, this is solemnly to worship him, and to be wrought upon as clay in the hand of the Potter, and in thus doing we have him; And if the case should be, that we should come to suffer for the name of Christ, it is so far off from being matter of murmuring to a Christian man, as that he suffers not only patiently, but joyfully, and if any man suffer for the name of Christ as a Christian, let him glorifie God on that behalfe, for the spirit of Glory and of God shall rest upon him, 1 Pet. 4.14.16. When a man thus worships God, patiently submitting himselfe to him, and gives up himselfe in his way, to be quieted by him, this is a true worshiping of Christ, and whoever thus worships him, hath him, though we cannot yet tell whether we have faith or no, whether repentance or no, whether any true love to God or no, yet if we can finde this in us, that in our hearts we thus worship the Lord Jesus, so highly prize him as the chiefest of ten thousand &c. In so doing we worship Christ and in worshiping him we have him, but on the other side, if we so look at Christ as we can prefer ten thousand other things before him, and can sit downe quietly without him, if we looke at Christ as a refuse commodity, no worth the cheapening, and we looke at our selves as the great Omegaes of the world, and we would not have our names blemished with seeking after Christ, but have greater businesse then that to looke after, and we wil be our owne carvers; if so, then we do not worship Christ, and then we have him not, and so no redemption by him.
