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

3 Thirdly, Hence is a use of humiliation to us all, even to the best of us; Oh how little, how little hath the best of us all Sanctified the Name of God! how far have we all come short of the Sanctifying of Gods Name in holy duties! And when we look abroad in the world and see what poor service God hath generally from the Men and Women of the earth, it should make our hearts bleed within us: Where almost is the man or woman that according to that text in Isa. Stirs up himself to take hold on God. And I verily believe that in the opening of this Point of Sanctifying the Name of God in holy duties, that I have bin in the bosoms of as many as in the opening of any Point whatsoever; and as many may have cause to lay their hands upon their hearts and say, Certainly I have come short of what is required here; and have not bin acquainted with this way, this mystery of godliness in Sanctifying Gods Name in holy duties as I ought to be: O be humbled for this, for all the uncleanness in your hearts in the performance of duties. In Exod. 27.4, 5. you read, that at the Altar where the Sacrifices were to be offered, the Lord required that there should be a grate made. Thou shalt make for it (meaning the Altar) a grate of net-work of brass, and upon the net shalt thou make four brazen rings in the four corners thereof, and thou shalt put it under the compass of ⟨p. 111⟩the Altar beneath, that the net may be even to the middest of the Altar. There was (as it were) a grate for the ashes of the Altar to go through, as you have grates in your fires to make them burn clear, and for the ashes to fall down, so the Lord would have such a grate for the ashes of the Altar to fall down: We had need of such a grate. Oh the ashes, and dirt, and filth, that there is in our services when we come to offer and tender them up to God! So that we have cause I say to to be humbled for holy offerings.

3 Thirdly, Hence is a use of humiliatton to us all, even to the best of us; Oh how little, how little hath the best of us all Sanctified the Name of God! how far have we all come short of the Sanctifying of Gods Name in holy duties! And when we look abroad in the world and see what poor service God hath generally from the Men and Women of the earth, it should make our hearts bleed within us: Where almost is the man or woman that according to that text in Isa. Stirs up himself to take hold on God. And I verily beleeve that in the opening of this Point of Sanctifying the Name of God in holy duties, that I have bin in the bosoms of as many as in the opening of any Point whatsoever; and as many may have cause to lay their hands upon their hearts and say, Certainly I have come short of what is required here; and have not bin accquainted with this way, this mystery of godlines in Sanctifying Gods Name in holy duties as I ought to be: O be humbled for this, for all the uncleanness in your hearts in the performance of duties. In