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4. Labour to experience Communion with God in your serving of him▪ there is a Communion which Godly men have with God in this life; he could say, 1 Joh. 1.3. Truly our fellowship is with God the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ; this is it which a sincere Christian hath an aim at in all that he doth, and there is nothing that can content him without it: Now this Communion is to be had in the way of duty. If you can do du•y contentedly without the enjoyment of it, & if this be your constant guise, you are Hypocrites; but if you restlessly seek it, and he affords it you, make much of it, prize it above every thing in the world, endeavour to be able to say of it as he, Psal 84.10. A day in thy Courts is better than a thousand; and this will certainly ⟨p. 165⟩put you upon longing for more of it, and make you to say, as Psal. 63.1, 2. My soul thirsteth for thee, to see thy power and thy glory, as I have seen; and there is nothing can carry out your hearts more intensely after the expressing sincerity in your Services, than the value you have for this, and the fresh apprehension, of the delight which you have found in it.

4. Labour to experience Communion with God in your serving of him▪ there is a Communion which Godly men have with God in this life; he could say, 1 Joh. 1.3. Truly our fellowship is with God the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ; this is it which a sincere Christian hath an aim at in all that he doth, and there is nothing that can content him without it: Now this Communion is to be had in the way of duty. If you can do du•y contentedly without the enjoyment of it, & if this be your constant guise, you are Hypocrites; but if you restlesly seek it, and he affords it you, make much of it, prize it above every thing in the world, endeavour to be able to say of it as he, Psal 84.10. A day in thy Court•s is better than a thousand; and this will certainly