In the House of GOD, His Ordinances are dispensed. The Zeal of that House must make us prize our Opportunities to be partakers of these Ordinances. We must be Glad, when we have Opportunities to draw near unto GOD in His House; and attend upon the Exercises wherein GOD is to be there met withal. This was the Zeal of old so Expressed; Psal. CXXII. 1. I was glad, when they said unto me, Let us go into the House of the Lord. We must be Sad, when we are deprived of, debarred from, Opportunities, to meet with GOD in His House, and there have our Fellowship with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. So was the Zeal Expressed of Old; Psal. CXLII. 4. When I remember these things, I pour out my Soul in me; for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the House of GOD. Such ought our ⟨p. 12⟩Zeal to be for the House of GOD, that we should think much of no pains to come unto it. We should have such a Value for what is to be done, and heard, and had in the Assemblies of the Faithful, that we should begrudge no Labour, no Travel, for coming at them. A small matter should not be made our Excuse for not Coming at them. We should esteem an Hour there, to be better than a thousand elsewhere. Our Esteem for what is to be found there, should overcome all the Difficulties of Coming thither. Then does the Zeal of the House indeed Eat us up, when no Difficulties in the Way can stand before it. The Zeal of the House of GOD, will Enable a Man to say with him, Psal. XXVI. 8. I have Loved the Habitation of thy House. It will make a man Delight in such Devotions as are performed at the House of GOD. It will give him a Delight in praying to GOD, in Hearing from GOD, in ⟨p. 13⟩Praising of GOD, in sitting at the Holy Table, and in observing all that our Lord has required there. And a Zeal for the House of GOD, will be accompanied with a Zeal for the Day of GOD: The Lords▪ Day, which is a Day Principally set apart for these Devotions. 'Tis a welcome Day to a Man, who has the Zeal of the House of GOD Eating him up. The Sabbath is a Delight unto him. When the Ordinances in the House of our SAVIOUR, are more to us, than our Necessary Food, and our Souls feed upon them, then the Zeal of His House hath Eaten us up.
In the House of GOD, His Ordinances are dispensed. The Zeal of that House must make us prize our Opportunities to be partakers of these Ordinances. We must be Glad, when we have Opportunities to draw near unto GOD in His House; and attend upon the Exercises wherein GOD is to be there met withal. This was the Zeal of old so Express'd; Psal. CXXII. 1. I was glad, when they said unto me, Let us go into the House of the Lord. We must be Sad, when we are depriv'd of, debarr'd from, Opportunities, to meet with GOD in His House, and there have our Fellowship with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. So was the Zeal Express'd of Old; Psal. CXLII. 4. When I remember these things, I pour out my Soul in me; for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the House of GOD. Such ought our ⟨p. 12⟩Zeal to be for the House of GOD, that we should think much of no pains to come unto it. We should have such a Value for what is to be done, and heard, and had in the Assemblies of the Faithful, that we should begrutch no Labour, no Travel, for coming at them. A small matter should not be made our Excuse for not Coming at them. We should esteem an Hour there, to be better than a thousand elsewhere. Our Esteem for what is to be found there, should overcome all the Difficulties of Coming thither. Then does the Zeal of the House indeed Eat us up, when no Difficulties in the Way can stand before it. The Zeal of the House of GOD, will Enable a Man to say with him, Psal. XXVI. 8. I have Loved the Habitation of thy House. It will make a man Delight in such Devotions as are performed at the House of GOD. It will give him a Delight in praying to GOD, in Hearing from GOD, in ⟨p. 13⟩Praising of GOD, in sitting at the Holy Table, and in observing all that our Lord has required there. And a Zeal for the House of GOD, will be accompanied with a Zeal for the Day of GOD: The Lords▪ Day, which is a Day Principally set apart for these Devotions. 'Tis a welcome Day to a Man, who has the Zeal of the House of GOD Eating him up. The Sabbath is a Delight unto him. When the Ordinances in the House of our SAVIOUR, are more to us, than our Necessary Food, and our Souls feed upon them, then the Zeal of His House hath Eaten us up.
