The present duty and endeavour of the saints. Opened in a sermon at Pauls…

It did not satisfy holy David to be kept from Presumptuous sins, and to be innocent from the Great transgression, unless the words of his mouth and the Meditation of his heart might be acceptable in the sight of the Lord, his strength and his Redeemer, Psal. 19. 14. How desirous was he, to have his actions accepted, who could not bear it, that a word or a thought of his, should miss of acceptation? The Apostle infers this duty upon the whole matter of our Gospel-privileges, Heb. 12. 28. Wherefore we receiving a Kingdom, ⟨p. 5⟩which cannot be shaken, let us have Grace whereby we may serve him acceptably, with reverence and Godly fear.

It did not satisfie holy David to be kept from Presumptuous sinnes, and to be innocent from the Great transgression, unlesse the words of his mouth and the Meditation of his heart might be acceptable in the sight of the Lord, his strength and his Redeemer, Psal. 19. 14. How desirous was he, to have his actions accepted, who could not beare it, that a word or a thought of his, should misse of acceptation? The Apostle inferres this duty upon the whole matter of our Gospel-priviledges, Heb. 12. 28. Wherefore we receiving a Kingdome, ⟨p. 5⟩which cannot be shaken, let us have Grace whereby we may serve him acceptably, with reverence and Godly feare.

Greater love calls for greater care. And while God (which should please us fully) gives us mercies, which cannot be shaken, we should be steady in our purposes, fully, to please God. Enoch the second Saint by name, and the seventh Man from Adam, was translated from Earth to Heaven, that he should not see death. But what had this man done while he lived upon the earth, which moved the Lord to dispense with that Great Statute of Heaven (which in our reading was dispensed with but once more) It is appointed for all men once to die, (