Gospel-worship, or, The right manner of sanctifying the name of God in general. And…

The Fourth Use is this, If to Worship God be to draw nigh Him, then to neglect Gods Worship is to depart from Him; that must needs follow. And this is a dreadful thing, it is the Sentence that shall be at the last day of Judgement, Depart from me. Thou now art willing to depart from God, Oh consider of this you that neglect Worship, the Worship of God in your families, and in your Closets, and in the Congregation, in the Communion of the Saints, thou hast little minded or regarded the Worship of God (it may be) all thy days, what hast thou been doing all this while? Thou hast been departing from God all this while, & when thy conscience shall be but enlightened and awakened to see how far thou art from God, how terrible will it be to thee? Remember this you that have no mind to the duties of the Worship of God, but love the Commission of sin, you neglect Gods Worship, you were wont to Worship Him in a constant way in your closets, and families, but now you grow more loose, and so you grow more dead every day than other, you go off from God more and more. Surely there can be no good to neglect Gods Worship. And those that are loth to Worship God because they cannot Worship Him as they ought, from this Point it appears plainly, That there can be no good gotten by neglecting Gods Worship, for it is departing from God, whatsoever plea there may be by any temptation to neglect Gods Worship, certainly there is danger in it, and therefore never listen to any such temptation as shall draw your hearts from the duties of Gods Worship. There are a generation of wantons in these times, that make little matter of continuing the duties of Gods Worship, they were wont constantly to worship God, and to attend upon the Word, but now it is nothing ⟨p. 34⟩to them, and they are even ready to thank God for it that they make not such conscience as they were wont to do in the duties of the Worship of God, It may be they will say, That heretofore some slavish terror did carry them on in the duties of Gods Worship more than the understanding of the freeness of the grace of God would admit of: But shall the understanding of the freedom of the grace of God carry thee on less than thy slavish terror did? Oh blind and wanton spirit that knowest not the ways of God, nor the freeness of the grace of God, nor the riches of it!

The Fourth Use is this, If to Worship God be to draw nigh Him, then to neglect Gods Worship is to depart from Him; that must needs follow. And this is a dreadful thing, it is the Sentence that shall be at the last day of Judgement, Depart from me. Thou now art willing to depart from God, Oh consider of this you that neglect Worship, the Worship of God in your families, and in your Closets, and in the Congregation, in the Communion of the Saints, thou hast little minded or regarded the Worship of God (it may be) all thy dayes, what hast thou been doing all this while? Thou hast been departing from God all this while, & when thy conscience shall be but enlightened and awakened to see how far thou art from God, how terrible will it be to thee? Remember this you that have no mind to the duties of the Worship of God, but love the Commission of sin, you neglect Gods Worship, you were wont to Worship Him in a constant way in your closets, and families, but now you grow more loose, and so you grow more dead every day than other, you go off from God more and more. Surely there can be no good to neglect Gods Worship. And those that are loth to Worship God because they cannot Worship Him as they ought, from this Point it appears plainly, That there can be no good gotten by neglecting Gods Worship, for it is departing from God, whatsoever plea there may be by any temptation to neglect Gods Worship, certainly there is danger in it, and therefore never listen to any such temptation as shall draw your hearts from the duties of Gods Worship. There are a generation of wantons in these times, that make little matter of continuing the duties of Gods Worship, they were wont constantly to worship God, and to attend upon the Word, but now it is nothing