The
great
Sin
of
FORMALITY
IN
GODS
WORSHIP
Hos.
11.
12.
Ephraim
compasseth
me
about
with
Lies
,
and
the
House
of
Israel
with
Deceit
.
THe
Subject
which
I
am
at
present
to
handle
is
the
sin
of
Formality
in
Gods
Worship
,
which
is
the
sin
condemned
in
the
Text
,
as
none
of
the
least
of
those
many
and
very
great
controversies
,
that
the
Lord
hath
had
all
along
with
his
professing
people
,
and
at
this
day
has
particularly
with
our selves
.
Take
a
brief
explication
of
the
Terms
.
Ephraim
was
the
Second
Son
of
Joseph
born
in
Egypt
,
and
that
name
given
him
in
Remembrance
of
Gods
making
him
fruitful
in
the
land
of
his
affliction
,
Gen
41.
52.
unto
him
Jacob
,
in
his
Blessing
,
gave
the
Preference
to
his
Elder
Brother
,
Gen.
48.
20.
The
name
is
sometimes
used
for
the
whole
Tribe
that
linearly
descended
from
him
,
and
here
for
the
Ten
Tribes
,
of
whom
he
was
the
Head
or
Chief
,
and
is
the
same
wi●h
[
The
House
of
Israel
.
]
Israel
signifies
a
prevaile●
with
God
▪
and
was
the
new
Name
which
God
gave
to
Jacob
in
memory
of
his
Victorions
combate
at
Peniel
,
Gen.
32.
28.
And
all
his
posterity
,
the
whole
visible
Church
,
bare
that
Name
of
●srael
,
until
after
the
separation
of
the
Ten
Tribes
from
the
two
,
when
the
Name
of
Israel
was
frequently
given
to
the
Ten
,
and
the
Name
of
Juda
unto
the
two
,
so
that
Ephraim
and
Israel
in
the
Text
are
homonymous
Terms
,
or
intend
the
same
people
.
[
Compasseth
me
]
Compassing
is
sometimes
used
for
Worship
,
and
in
that
sense
it
is
to
be
taken
here
.
Thus
Psal
▪
26.
6.
Compassing
Gods
Altar
,
intends
Worshipping
of
God
,
offering
up
Sacrifice
on
▪
his
Altar
,
which
was
one
principal
part
of
Worship
.
In
the
same
sense
is
the
phrase
used
Psal.
7.
7.
Christ
hath
promised
that
where
his
people
meet
together
in
his
Name
,
(
as
all
that
are
regularly
Assembled
for
any
part
of
▪
instituted
Worship
do
)
he
will
be
in
the
midst
of
them
,
Mat.
18.
20.
and
if
he
be
in
the
midst
of
us
,
we
are
then
compassing
him
about
.
The
Hebrew
word
in
the
Text
is
also
sometimes
used
for
Beleaguering
or
Besieging
a
Town
or
City
in
an
hostile
way
,
and
truly
God
accounts
such
hypocritical
worship
little
better
than
waging
War
against
himself
,
&
such
Compassers
he
looks
at
as
his
.
Besiegers
,
and
they
will
sooner
or
later
be
dealt
with
as
such
.
Some
Expositors
attribute
it
to
the
Prophet
,
as
if
he
were
beset
with
their
Lies
and
scandalous
Reports
,
to
the
prejudice
▪
of
his
Ministry
,
which
is
one
of
Satans
stratagems
to
prevent
the
Success
of
the
Gospel
,
by
reproaching
them
that
dispense
it
▪
Thus
they
served
Jeremiah
,
chap.
20.
10.
&
18.
18.
and
thus
they
lay
snares
for
him
that
reproves
in
the
Gate
,
Isa.
29.
21.
When
Gods
Messengers
are
reproving
sin
,
they
may
look
for
such
Treats
,
(
though
I
would
beg
of
this
Auditory
,
that
they
would
be
more
kind
▪
to
us
,
and
to
,
themselves
too
,
while
we
are
according
to
our
Commission
,
Isa.
58.
1.
shewing
God's
People
their
sin
)
It
's
a
good
note
of
one
upon
the
place
▪
A
Faithful
Minister
is
the
Center
in
which
all
the
lines
of
Lies
and
Slanders
meet
.
An
ill
case
,
if
they
be
silent
God
is
displeased
,
if
they
speak
men
are
angry
.
But
I
rather
take
it
in
the
fore-going
sense
▪
as
referring
to
God
in
his
Worship
.
[
With
Lies
and
Deceit
]
These
Terms
also
mean
the
same
thing
,
unless
you
will
say
the
latter
is
Exegetical
,
and
shews
what
was
their
aim
and
design
in
lying
,
viz.
to
deceive
God
,
they
pretended
to
great
devotion
in
keeping
up
the
external
form
of
Worship
,
without
being
sincere
and
real
therein
,
and
that
was
their
lying
,
whereby
they
thought
(
tho'
it
was
wretched
Atheism
so
to
think
)
to
put
God
off
,
to
deceive
and
put
a
cheat
upon
him
,
as
if
the
Omniscient
God
could
be
imposed
upon
.
But
this
will
be
more
fully
opened
in
Explaining
the
Doctrine
.
DOCTRINE
.
Formality
in
God's
Worship
is
accounted
by
him
as
Lying
and
Deceiving
,
and
so
is
a
very
provoking
sin
.
Formal
Worshippers
are
lookt
at
by
God
as
lyars
and
deceivers
,
and
thereby
exposed
to
his
sorest
anger
.
There
are
three
sorts
of
False
and
Deceitful
Worship
,
which
God
is
Displeased
with
.
-
1.
When
men
Worship
any
other
Person
or
thing
than
the
one
onely
,
living
and
true
God
,
when
they
have
and
serve
any
other
God
before
or
besides
the
True
God
;
and
this
is
gross
Idolatry
and
a
breach
of
the
first
Commandment
.
-
2.
When
they
Worship
the
true
God
but
with
False
Worship
,
such
as
never
came
into
his
mind
,
but
is
the
meer
product
of
their
own
Invention
,
which
yet
they
observe
in
stead
of
,
or
mix
or
joyn
with
his
Institutions
.
This
is
a
Breach
of
the
Second
Commandment
,
and
very
offensive
to
a
Jealous
God
.
-
3.
When
the
object
of
the
Worship
is
right
,
and
the
Worship
it self
is
for
the
matter
,
or
as
to
the
externals
thereof
true
,
but
the
miscarriage
of
it
lies
in
the
manner
of
doing
it
,
in
that
it
is
done
with
a
Dissembling
Heart
,
or
in
a
cold
formal
manner
.
And
this
sin
is
forbidden
in
the
third
Commandment
,
which
directs
about
the
right
manner
of
performing
true
Worship
(
both
natural
and
Instituted
)
to
the
true
God
.
The
two
latter
may
be
intended
here
,
and
chiefly
the
third
,
or
a
mixture
of
them
both
(
for
the
Heart
cannot
be
right
where
the
Worship
is
wrong
)
yea
in
a
sense
all
three
of
them
;
For
they
had
the
Calves
at
Dan
and
Bethel
,
at
best
a
false
Medium
,
nor
could
they
any
more
excuse
themselves
from
the
missing
it
in
the
object
of
worship
too
,
than
their
Fathers
,
who
tho'
they
proclaimed
a
Feast
to
Jehovah
before
the
Golden
Calf
,
yet
might
be
said
to
have
chosen
new
Gods
(
as
Judg.
5.
8.
)
and
to
Sacrifice
to
Devils
and
not
to
God
,
Deut.
32.
17
And
be
sure
all
this
while
their
Heart
was
not
right
with
God
.
But
I
shall
confine
my
Discourse
unto
such
as
are
Professors
of
the
true
God
,
who
have
also
the
right-way
of
Instituted
Worship
,
but
through
the
falseness
of
their
hearts
do
but
lye
to
him
in
all
they
perform
;
a
sin
commonly
practised
in
our
Days
by
Professors
of
Religion
.
Q.
What
is
this
Formal
Worship
,
which
is
called
Lying
and
Deceit
?
A.
It
's
worth
our
inquiring
into
,
because
called
by
very
hard
names
,
very
much
complained
of
in
Scripture
,
and
there
is
abundance
of
it
among
Gods
visible
people
,
yea
too
much
among
those
that
may
have
the
Root
of
the
matter
in
them
,
and
also
because
it
's
very
provoking
to
God
,
and
mischievous
to
them
that
use
it
.
Now
I
call
that
Formal
Worship
,
which
is
opposed
to
that
which
is
in
reality
.
Paul
opposes
a
Form
of
Godliness
to
the
power
of
it
,
2
Tim.
3.
5.
Such
Pretenders
make
Perilous
Times
.
He
intends
such
Persons
as
used
an
appearance
without
any
reality
,
a
shew
without
any
substance
.
They
made
a
profession
of
Godliness
,
and
used
much
Pretensive
Devotion
in
Worship
,
but
there
was
nothing
in
it
,
save
an
appearance
and
shadow
only
,
Vox
preterea
nihil
,
an
empty
Form
,
no
powerful
sincerity
in
their
heart
,
nor
good
fruit
in
their
life
.
And
this
Vizard
men
put
on
to
deceive
,
that
they
may
walk
incoginto
in
the
World
.
Formal
Worship
is
Hypocritical
Worship
,
like
a
painted
Tomb
without
,
but
Corruption
&
Rottenness
within
,
Fire
without
and
Frost
within
,
A
flame
in
the
mouth
but
Ice
in
the
Heart
:
A
perfect
piece
of
Pageantry
,
a
Play
,
where
he
that
is
in
shew
a
King
,
is
in
Reallity
a
Beggar
.
Such
lying
Worship
is
thus
Described
by
Christ
Mat.
15
:
8
,
9.
Drawing
near
to
God
with
the
Lip
,
when
the
Heart
is
far
from
him
,
near
in
look
and
gestures
,
but
far
in
heart
and
spirit
,
this
is
the
spirit
of
an
Hypocrite
.
When
out
of
any
low
,
base
,
inferiour
end
,
men
are
drawn
or
driven
to
those
duties
which
indeed
they
have
no
Heart
to
,
this
the
Lord
accounts
lying
in
his
Worship
.
And
the
more
external
Preparations
,
the
more
Cost
and
Grandeur
there
is
in
it
,
the
bigger
the
lye
.
Christ
reduceth
all
our
Obedience
,
whether
in
point
of
Worship
or
otherwise
,
unto
that
one
word
Love
,
now
if
not
loving
Worship
,
its
lying
Worship
;
there
is
an
Idol
in
the
Heart
,
which
has
their
Love
,
while
God
has
their
Lips
only
,
they
pretend
Devotion
to
God
,
but
the
Idol
in
the
Heart
has
the
Heart
all
the
while
.
When
the
Heart
and
Body
do
not
go
together
in
the
Service
of
God
,
the
Body
shews
much
love
,
but
the
Heart
is
otherwise
imployed
.
Ezek
33
:
31.
This
lying
worship
is
opposed
to
worshipping
God
in
Spirit
and
Truth
,
John
4.
24.
Paul
served
God
with
his
spirit
,
Rom.
1.
9.
But
their
Spirits
,
Soul
and
Hearts
are
not
concerned
or
engaged
,
and
so
there
is
no
Truth
in
their
services
,
because
no
Spirit
in
them
,
they
are
not
spiritual
and
so
cannot
be
true
,
for
it
is
Truth
in
the
inward
parts
that
God
requires
,
Psal
51
,
6.
Ephraim
was
called
a
silly
,
Dove
without
an
Heart
.
Hos.
7
,
11.
And
that
is
a
silly
,
sorry
Sacrifice
that
has
no
heart
in
it
,
nor
can
it
be
acceptable
to
God
,
Who
chiefly
minds
the
Heart
,
Jer.
30.
21.
22.
And
as
the
heart
is
to
go
with
it
,
so
the
Conversation
is
to
be
consonant
thereto
.
Want
of
either
makes
the
worship
a
lye
.
As
a
man
thinks
in
his
heart
so
is
he
,
Prov.
23.
7.
But
that
is
known
to
God
only
and
himself
.
But
when
the
Conversation
contradicts
the
Devotion
his
deceitfulness
is
Obvious
to
men
also
Tit.
1.
16.
and
here
Christ
gives
this
Direction
for
the
knowing
of
men
by
their
fruits
,
Mat.
7.
16.
And
if
the
Heart
be
false
the
Conversation
will
not
be
right
,
for
the
Heart
governs
the
Conversation
.
If
the
Heart
go
not
with
the
tongue
,
the
Walk
will
to
the
Prudent
observer
(
at
least
often
)
give
the
Tongue
the
lye
,
but
if
heart
and
tongue
joyns
,
the
Conversation
among
men
will
evidence
〈…〉
the
sincerity
toward
God
.
Now
such
Worship
is
called
Lying
deceiving
1.
Lying
,
which
is
either
Verbal
or
Practical
.
Verbal
lying
when
he
speaks
not
the
Truth
in
his
Heart
,
Psal.
15
,
2.
Affirming
that
to
be
Truth
which
he
knows
to
be
untruth
,
or
doth
not
know
to
be
Truth
,
or
denying
that
to
be
Truth
,
which
he
knows
,
at
least
thinks
to
be
Truth
,
or
knows
not
but
that
it
may
be
Truth
.
Practical
Lying
is
when
a
man
pretends
and
professes
what
he
neither
intends
nor
performs
,
when
his
works
deny
what
his
words
Profess
,
this
is
practical
lying
,
he
lies
in
his
way
,
though
he
speaks
right
in
his
words
,
●it
.
1.
6.
He
assumes
the
Name
of
Religion
,
but
he
practically
denies
the
thing
,
which
consists
not
in
words
,
but
in
Power
,
in
Love
,
in
Righteousness
,
Holiness
Self-denial
,
Mortification
,
&c.
to
which
he
is
a
stranger
:
And
this
is
the
Lying
which
the
Lord
,
blames
them
for
here
,
and
threatens
else
where
,
Isa.
1.
10.
16.
Isa.
58.
1
-
7.
with
Psal.
50.
7.
22.
2.
It
's
called
Deceit
also
,
They
compass
me
with
Deceit
:
Thus
Mal.
1.
14.
He
that
has
a
Male
in
his
Flock
,
and
offers
a
corrupt
thing
to
the
Lord
,
is
called
a
Deceiver
,
and
such
an
oblation
is
a
piece
of
meer
deceit
.
A
Deceiver
is
a
sly
,
subtil
,
under
hand
Dealer
,
one
that
plays
Leger-de-main
,
that
cogs
and
cheats
,
and
designs
to
put
a
sham
upon
another
,
and
this
is
the
aim
and
spirit
of
a
Formatist
in
Gods
Worship
;
he
contrives
to
put
a
cheat
upon
God
,
indeed
to
mock
him
,
Gal.
6
▪
7.
And
such
a
Worshipper
is
called
a
Deceiver
.
1.
Because
he
defrauds
the
glorious
God
of
his
just
due
,
and
of
the
true
Homage
and
Service
which
belongs
to
him
from
his
Creatures
.
It
's
true
,
God
cannot
properly
be
deceived
,
but
he
offers
at
it
,
does
what
he
may
towards
it
,
and
like
a
foolish
,
ignorant
Atheist
,
imagines
he
may
do
it
▪
thinks
God
will
not
see
when
he
turns
him
off
with
a
bad
Sacrifice
for
a
good
one
▪
a
corrupt
and
lame
one
for
a
sound
one
,
Job
22.
12
,
14.
Thus
he
robs
God
of
his
Right
,
sends
away
the
Heart
about
other
business
,
and
complements
God
with
a
little
Bodily
Exercise
,
or
Tongue-Devotion
.
The
worm
of
his
Lust
doth
eat
the
Kernel
,
and
then
with
some
seeming
solemnity
he
makes
the
Heart-searching
and
Heart-demanding
God
a
Present
of
the
empty
shell
.
A
very
shameful
and
affronting
Cheat.
2.
It
may
be
called
a
piece
of
Deceit
,
because
it
does
really
deceive
others
:
men
that
can
only
judge
by
the
outward
appearance
,
are
utterly
deceived
by
him
.
Samuel
was
deceived
by
Eliahs
look
,
and
Philip
by
Simon
Magus's
Profession
.
Come
see
my
zeal
for
the
Lord
was
enough
to
have
Blinded
a
Jonadab
,
save
that
the
load
Trumpeting
his
own
commendation
was
too
much
like
an
Hypocrite
.
Oh
,
thinks
a
good
and
charitable
Christian
,
this
is
certainly
an
Excellent
Man
;
see
his
Parts
,
Zeal
,
Affection
,
&c.
and
his
aim
being
to
seem
Religious
before
men
,
he
puts
himself
in
his
finest
dress
when
he
appears
upon
the
Stage
in
open
view
,
turns
the
best
side
outward
when
he
has
a
great
many
Spectators
;
while
a
sincere
Soul
whose
business
is
to
approve
himself
to
God
,
is
most
engaged
and
enlarged
in
his
Closet
,
where
none
but
he
that
sees
in
Secret
can
observe
him
.
3.
But
finally
he
is
called
a
Deceiver
,
because
he
doth
most
miserably
and
fatally
deceive
himself
,
Jam.
1.
22
,
26.
He
puts
a
Paralogism
or
Fallacy
upon
himself
,
argues
falsly
,
and
concludes
fallaciously
concerning
himself
.
And
it
's
a
proper
punishment
for
him
that
thinks
to
deceive
in
his
performance
,
to
find
himself
deceived
in
his
expected
acceptance
.
As
Jacob
feared
lest
his
Father
might
,
this
Deceiver
shall
find
that
the
All-seeing
God
most
certainly
will
●ind
out
the
Deceit
,
and
reward
him
with
a
Curse
instead
of
a
Blessing
,
Gen.
27.
12.
Such
persons
may
sport
themselves
with
their
own
Deceivings
for
a
time
,
2.
Pet.
2.
13.
but
the
Deceiver
shall
be
deceived
at
●ast
.
And
he
is
the
worst
Deceiver
that
●eceives
himself
.
For
a
further
discovery
of
this
sin
of
Lying
and
Deceit
in
Gods
Worship
,
let
us
take
notice
of
some
of
the
Deceits
used
in
Prayer
,
Hearing
,
Receiving
the
Sacrament
,
a●●
Sanctifying
the
Sabbath
;
and
our
particularizing
here
,
will
offer
much
matter
of
C●nviction
as
we
go
along
.
1.
Of
Compassing
God
about
with
Lies
and
Deceit
in
Prayer
.
Prayer
is
no
small
part
of
Instituted
Worship
,
and
to
be
made
use
of
with
every
part
of
Worship
.
And
doubtless
Gods
own
Children
have
need
to
pray
with
David
,
That
God
would
remove
from
them
the
way
of
Lying
even
when
they
are
Praying
,
Psal.
119.
29.
In
solitary
prayer
when
they
enter
into
their
Closets
and
shut
their
doors
,
they
are
more
happy
than
the
most
and
best
of
Christians
always
are
if
they
can
shut
out
all
vain
and
impertinent
thoughts
from
coming
in
.
All
such
(
and
much
more
wicked
,
blasphemous
and
unbelieving
)
thoughts
are
faults
,
and
if
allowed
are
lies
;
though
they
are
not
wickednesses
,
they
are
infirmities
,
end
if
not
watcht
against
and
mourned
over
,
will
be
charged
on
us
as
Lies
and
Deceit
.
In
our
ordinary
social
prayers
,
how
hard
to
keep
our
heart
engaged
in
every
word
of
Petition
,
Confession
or
Thanksgiving
uttered
by
him
that
i●
our
mouth
unto
God!
vagaries
are
a
sort
of
Lies
,
and
wandering
or
diverting
is
Deceiving
.
In
extraordinary
Prayers
on
Fasting
and
Humiliation
Days
there
is
a
great
deal
of
deceit
used
.
Especially
when
men
fast
for
strife
and
debate
,
Isa.
58.
4.
rend
their
Garments
but
not
their
hearts
,
wat●●
their
their
eyes
,
but
do
not
afflict
their
Souls
,
open
their
mouths
,
but
keep
their
hearts
shut
,
their
heads
hang
down
for
a
day
like
a
Bullrush
,
(
though
many
arrive
not
to
that
,
and
so
their
lying
is
the
more
open
and
obvious
,
and
their
sin
goes
before-hand
unto
Judgment
.
)
But
they
have
no
Sacrince
of
a
broken
heart
and
contrite
spirit
to
present
the
Lord
withal
.
What
is
this
but
dissembling
and
lying
,
while
they
pretend
performance
of
the
Duties
of
such
a
Solemnity
,
and
yet
neglect
the
principal
thing
required
?
If
there
be
not
(
on
such
days
especially
)
in
their
Addresses
to
God
,
hearty
confessions
of
sin
,
deep
Humiliation
under
it
,
and
Soul
affliction
for
it
,
with
serious
resolution
to
turn
from
it
;
all
that
is
done
without
this
,
is
nothing
but
lying
and
deceiving
,
and
the
greater
the
expence
in
the
external
part
of
the
duty
,
the
greater
the
deceit
if
not
rightly
performed
.
To
instance
in
the
several
parts
of
prayer
.
1.
There
is
Confession
,
and
that
either
of
Gods
Glory
,
or
our
sin
and
vileness
.
If
we
make
Confession
of
Gods
Glory
and
Majesty
,
and
yet
do
not
really
and
practically
believe
what
we
say
;
We
call
him
Father
,
but
do
not
honour
him
;
Master
,
but
do
not
fear
him
;
Lord
,
but
do
not
obey
him
;
or
Shepherd
;
but
do
not
hear
his
voice
and
follow
him
;
what
do
we
less
than
mock
and
lye
to
him
?
We
confess
his
Omniscience
,
but
carry
toward
him
in
our
hearts
,
as
if
he
were
far
out
of
our
sight
,
that
though
he
planted
the
ear
,
and
formed
the
eye
,
could
neither
hear
nor
see
,
but
was
like
the
deaf
and
blind
Idol
,
Psal.
115.
come
with
our
hands
full
of
sin
,
as
if
we
thought
he
could
not
discern
whether
we
did
lift
up
holy
hands
or
no.
1
Tim.
2.
8.
We
acknowledge
his
Power
in
words
,
but
doubt
of
his
Ability
to
save
us
,
and
engage
not
our
hearts
to
take
hold
of
his
Strength
and
be
at
peace
with
him
.
We
confess
his
Wisdom
,
and
yet
will
instruct
and
limit
the
Holy
One
of
Israel
,
and
be
our
own
carvers
in
point
of
the
things
we
would
have
granted
us
.
We
call
him
our
Soveraign
,
but
must
have
our
own
wills
,
and
while
we
say
,
Thy
Will
be
done
,
are
very
impatient
if
ours
be
not
complied
with
.
We
verbally
own
his
Goodness
,
but
we
lye
in
our
hearts
if
we
do
not
close
with
him
as
Goodness
it self
,
and
make
him
the
object
of
our
highest
love
accordingly
.
We
own
his
Mercy
,
but
do
not
co●●ide
and
hope
in
it
:
Confess
him
to
be
Just
,
and
yet
pass
not
the
time
of
our
sojourning
▪
before
him
in
fear
.
We
say
it
's
a
fearful
thing
to
fall
into
his
hands
,
and
yet
by
such
kind
of
trifling
in
his
Worship
do
most
directly
deliver
our selves
up
into
the
Hands
of
his
Jealousie
and
Justice
.
We
profess
our
love
to
him
,
but
while
our
heart
is
not
with
him
,
we
mock
him
and
lye
to
him
,
as
she
told
Sampson
,
Judg.
16.
15.
Thus
while
we
confess
all
Gods
Glorious
Attributes
in
prayer
,
but
do
not
make
him
the
object
of
our
Faith
,
Love
,
Fear
,
Delight
,
&c.
we
do
but
lye
to
him
.
Thus
also
in
Confession
of
our
own
Sin
and
Vileness
.
We
often
confess
sin
,
but
do
not
believe
that
we
are
such
Sinners
indeed
as
we
say
we
are
,
nor
are
sensible
what
an
evil
and
bitter
thing
sin
is
.
We
call
our selves
Sinners
in
the
general
,
but
when
we
come
to
particulars
,
are
ready
to
extenuate
and
excuse
if
not
to
deny
it
.
Again
,
if
we
confess
the
sin
that
we
have
no
mind
to
part
with
,
and
acknowledge
those
Iniquities
that
we
keep
in
our
bosoms
with
complacence
and
delight
,
what
is
this
but
deceitful
dealing
with
God
?
We
seem
very
pathetically
in
words
to
confess
our
own
wretchedness
and
unworthiness
,
but
God
and
our
own
Consciences
know
that
we
do
but
lye
unto
him
,
while
not
humbled
to
this
day
,
Ier.
44.
10.
and
are
better
opinionated
of
our selves
than
wee
pretend
to
in
our
Confessions
.
2.
A
second
part
of
Prayer
is
Petition
.
And
there
is
also
a
great
deal
of
lying
and
deceit
.
As
for
Instance
,
When
we
ask
outward
things
to
spend
them
upon
our
Lusts
&
not
that
we
may
sincerely
use
them
for
the
Glory
of
God
;
this
is
asking
amiss
,
Jam.
4.
3.
This
is
deceitful
Praying
,
to
ask
his
mercies
that
we
may
fight
against
him
with
his
own
weapons
;
what
is
it
but
Couzenage
and
Deceit
?
So
when
we
ask
Gifts
only
to
make
a
fine
shew
among
men
,
and
get
a
Reputation
for
Religion
;
which
is
finally
to
sacrifice
Gods
Gifts
to
our
ambition
and
vain-glory
.
Or
when
we
ask
spiritual
Blessings
which
we
are
not
really
concerned
to
receive
.
Austin
has
such
a
passage
in
his
Confessions
,
that
he
often
asked
that
of
God
in
Prayer
,
which
he
was
in
his
heart
afraid
lest
he
should
give
.
Many
seem
to
beg
hard
for
Grace
,
when
God
knows
,
they
do
not
desire
it
;
ask
Knowledge
,
when
they
hate
the
Light
,
and
cannot
endure
to
come
to
it
;
ask
to
have
sin
pardoned
,
when
they
cannot
part
with
it
,
purged
,
while
they
hold
fast
their
deceit
,
and
refuse
to
let
it
go
,
this
is
downright
lying
before
God
,
Jer.
8.
5.
Thus
we
pray
for
the
Sanctifying
of
his
Name
,
Coming
of
his
Kingdom
,
doing
of
his
Will
,
but
in
heart
we
are
for
neither
of
them
.
Of
such
kind
of
addressing
God
in
a
Time
of
Affliction
,
the
Lord
pronounces
that
it
is
but
flattering
and
lying
,
and
that
because
the
Heart
is
not
right
with
God
,
Psa.
78.
34.
—
37.
And
so
of
our
Thanksgiving
,
which
is
also
a
part
of
Prayer
,
when
we
say
in
words
,
Lord
,
we
bless
and
praise
thy
Name
,
but
our
hearts
are
not
fixed
to
that
work
,
nor
do
we
take
due
care
to
order
our
whole
Conversation
so
as
may
be
most
for
his
Service
and
Glory
.
Verbal
praising
of
God
,
with
practical
dishonouring
of
him
is
plain
lying
.
So
when
we
promise
to
him
what
we
never
intend
to
perform
,
at
least
never
duly
care
to
perform
;
they
that
make
solemn
vows
in
the
days
of
their
distress
,
but
forget
to
pay
them
in
the
days
of
their
enlargement
,
are
but
lyars
and
deceivers
.
2.
Of
the
Lying
and
Deceit
in
Hearing
the
Word
.
When
men
hear
,
but
bare
hearing
is
all
they
do
.
Hear
with
the
ear
,
but
never
set
the
heart
to
all
those
things
that
are
testified
,
which
Moses
advises
them
unto
Deut.
32.
46.
Hear
,
but
not
as
the
Word
of
God
,
Acts
10.
33.
Hear
,
but
do
not
take
care
,
and
heed
how
they
hear
;
Hear
,
but
the
heart
goes
after
their
Covetousness
,
Ezek.
33.
31.
Hear
,
but
gaze
and
wander
the
while
,
and
it
may
be
fall
fast
asleep
too
.
(
And
by
the
way
,
sleeping
at
Meeting
is
visible
and
palpable
lying
,
especially
if
allowed
,
and
not
to
the
utmost
resisted
and
striven
against
:
Eutychus
was
taken
in
the
manner
,
Acts
20.
9.
and
made
a
solemn
Monitor
to
waken
all
sleepers
.
)
Hear
,
but
come
with
an
Idol
in
their
heart
,
hear
and
go
forth
immediately
,
and
all
they
hear
is
lost
,
the
Word
choakt
,
and
so
their
labour
proves
in
vain
.
To
hear
without
an
unfeigned
Resolution
to
no
as
well
as
hear
,
together
with
a
sincere
endeavour
to
perform
what
they
resolve
,
is
lying
and
deceitful
Hearing
.
3.
At
a
Sacr●ment
men
lye
to
God
.
When
they
do
not
discern
the
Lords
Body
,
do
not
make
it
their
business
to
see
and
converse
with
a
Crucified
Christ
that
is
there
held
forth
.
When
they
come
to
a
Feast
,
but
come
not
with
an
appetite
,
to
a
Wedding
Feast
,
but
not
with
a
Wedding
Garment
;
come
to
receive
a
Gift
,
but
either
bring
or
put
forth
no
hand
of
Faith
to
take
it
.
When
at
the
beholding
of
a
Crucified
Christ
,
there
is
no
mourning
over
him
,
nor
for
their
sins
that
Crucified
him
,
no
activity
of
Faith
,
though
the
Lord
Jesus
be
evidently
set
forth
as
Crucified
for
the
drawing
forth
of
their
Faith
on
him
;
no
inflaming
of
their
Love
,
by
the
dying
Love
of
a
dear
Saviour
,
which
they
are
then
called
to
a
fixed
meditation
on
;
the
failure
here
speaks
the
neglect
of
what
is
the
principal
end
of
a
Sacrament
,
and
therefore
is
no
less
than
lying
and
deceit
in
Gods
account
,
however
the
external
Deportment
may
appear
fair
and
commendable
before
men
,
that
can
only
judge
by
the
seeing
of
the
eye
,
and
hearing
of
the
ear
.
4.
So
we
may
say
of
the
Sabbath
.
Which
is
a
special
season
for
the
attending
on
Instituted
Worship
.
If
it
be
not
kept
according
to
the
Law
of
the
Sabbath
,
if
we
do
not
Sanctifie
the
Sabbath
,
that
:
God
may
Sanctifie
us
on
and
by
the
Sabbath
,
Ezek.
20.
12.
If
the
Sabbath
be
not
remembred
and
prepared
for
,
and
sanctified
as
an
Holy
Rest
with
and
unto
God
,
we
do
but
mock
God
,
and
deceive
our selves
.
If
our
Sabbath
▪
keeping
be
not
a
Delight
,
it
is
a
chea●
;
If
we
only
cease
from
servile
labour
,
but
not
from
speaking
our
own
words
,
and
following
our
carnal
and
sinful
pleasures
;
or
if
we
account
only
that
part
of
the
day
to
be
Sabbath
which
we
spend
in
the
Publick
Worship
,
and
the
residue
of
the
time
,
both
before
,
after
,
and
in
the
intervals
of
Worship
,
be
spent
as
common
time
;
the
whole
of
our
Sabbath
-
keeping
is
Sabbath
breaking
,
and
our
pretences
fallacious
and
deceitful
.
These
are
some
hints
which
the
serious
Hearer
may
easily
enlarge
in
his
Meditations
.
I
should
have
added
here
something
,
-
1.
Of
the
greatness
of
this
sin
.
-
2.
Of
the
soreness
of
its
punishment
.
But
that
I
chuse
to
bring
them
in
either
as
Motives
to
incline
us
to
a
true
and
right
performance
of
the
Duties
of
Worship
,
Or
as
Disswasives
from
this
sin
of
Lying
therein
.
By
way
of
Application
.
First
,
I
shall
draw
some
Inferences
from
the
Doctrine
.
1.
If
there
be
such
a
thing
as
Lying
and
Deceitful
Dealing
in
Gods
Worship
.
—
Then
we
have
the
less
cause
to
wonder
that
there
is
so
much
Lying
and
Deceit
among
men
in
their
converse
with
each
other
.
It
's
a
very
lying
Age
that
we
live
in
.
Men
lye
one
to
another
,
in
falsifying
their
words
,
breaking
their
promises
,
yea
,
and
more
solemn
Obligations
.
Men
lye
one
of
another
by
scandalous
Reports
which
they
raise
and
broach
,
very
much
to
the
detriment
of
their
Neighbours
,
and
reproach
of
Religion
.
Yea
,
there
are
that
make
it
no
small
part
of
their
business
to
invent
&
frame
Lies
,
and
seatter
them
abroad
to
amuse
the
World
withal
,
and
to
draw
forth
mens
sentiments
,
of
which
they
make
their
Remarks
,
and
of
which
they
make
matter
of
Accusation
.
There
is
also
much
Deceiving
and
Over-reaching
one
another
in
Dealing
,
the
weakest
(
though
the
hone●●est
)
goes
to
the
wall
;
I
say
there
is
much
of
this
among
men
.
Think
it
not
strange
,
while
there
is
so
much
dissembling
with
God
himself
,
you
may
look
to
meet
with
the
like
among
men
.
And
it
arises
from
the
same
principle
,
the
Atheism
that
is
in
all
Mankind
,
that
which
makes
them
dare
to
lie
to
God
,
will
not
let
them
stick
at
lying
to
men
.
Look
for
nothing
but
falshood
and
mischief
from
him
that
makes
no
Conscience
of
essaying
to
put
his
cheats
upon
the
Great
God
.
He
that
will
adventure
to
lye
to
God
directly
,
will
not
stick
more
remotely
to
lye
to
him
,
as
all
lying
to
men
is
,
all
sin
being
finally
against
God
.
2.
See
what
little
cause
we
have
to
boast
of
any
merit
in
any
of
our
Services
;
where
there
is
so
much
deceit
,
there
can
be
no
Merit
.
Outward
Performances
if
they
be
only
such
,
are
meer
lies
,
and
therefore
rather
provocations
unto
God
,
than
obligations
upon
him
.
Hence
when
they
trusted
to
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
,
and
to
their
Services
and
Sacrifices
there
,
the
Lord
tells
them
they
trusted
in
lying
words
,
Jer.
7.
4
▪
8
But
suppose
they
be
sincere
performances
,
worship
done
in
spirit
and
truth
,
there
will
be
no
room
for
trusting
in
or
boasting
of
them
;
for
the
sincerity
of
the
heart
is
Grace
,
&
that
Grace
tho
inherent
,
●et
is
infused
Grace
,
&
the
exercise
of
that
sincerity
in
Worship
is
exciting
Grace
,
&
all
Grace
takes
away
all
occasion
of
boasting
.
There
are
some
actings
of
pride
in
the
best
,
to
their
shame
and
confusion
of
face
,
when
they
reflect
thereupon
:
but
usually
,
or
mostly
they
are
false
in
their
Worship
that
trust
to
it
,
and
of
them
it
may
be
said
,
they
trust
to
a
Refuge
of
Lies
,
and
under
falshood
do
they
hide
themselves
,
Isa
28.
15.
Because
all
their
Worship
is
so
.
Were
our
Services
never
so
good
,
yet
if
trusted
in
when
we
have
done
them
,
we
make
a
lye
,
an
Idol
of
them
,
and
shall
find
them
to
be
a
lye
to
us
;
much
more
when
there
is
so
much
d●ceit
attending
the
best
of
our
doings
,
and
so
much
lameness
,
leanness
▪
and
deformity
in
the
chiefest
of
our
Sacrifices
.
3.
Hence
see
also
the
reason
why
God
is
angry
oft
times
at
the
Prayers
of
his
People
,
viz.
because
he
ha●es
lying
,
of
which
he
finds
so
much
in
them
▪
Psal.
80.
4
▪
And
hence
there
is
so
little
success
in
praying
,
so
few
Answers
of
their
Prayers
.
Those
that
are
lying
Services
to
God
,
will
be
lying
Services
to
us
also
,
nothing
will
come
of
them
but
Provocation
and
Punishment
.
We
know
that
God
heareth
not
Sinners
▪
Joh.
9.
31.
Lyars
and
Deceiters
as
they
shall
not
dwell
with
him
,
Psal.
101.
7.
so
neither
shall
their
Services
come
before
him
with
Acceptance
.
Let
none
of
us
that
are
conscious
to
our selves
of
a
great
deal
of
that
Guilt
in
our
Services
,
quarrel
with
God
,
and
say
,
Wherefore
have
we
fasted
and
thou
seest
not
?
Isa.
58.
3.
That
Context
will
answer
them
and
us
,
and
this
Text
will
stop
our
mouths
.
It
's
said
,
Hab.
3.
7.
The
labour
of
the
Olive
fails
,
it
is
in
the
Hebrew
lies
,
i.
e.
their
labour
about
the
Olive
in
planting
,
pruning
,
dressing
,
from
which
they
expect
some
fruit
,
produces
nothing
,
nothing
comes
of
it
;
so
will
the
labour
of
such
a
Worshipper
prove
,
his
Prayer
was
a
lye
to
God
,
and
it
is
very
just
it
should
be
●ound
a
lye
to
him
.
USE
II.
Of
Conviction
.
Let
this
Doctrine
also
be
improved
unto
Conviction
,
and
upon
due
,
serious
and
strict
Examination
,
Conviction
will
follow
.
Is
there
not
too
too
much
of
this
lying
Worship
to
be
found
among
us
?
Here
is
a
great
deal
of
worship
,
and
many
Worshippers
.
And
those
Worshippers
that
seek
God
daily
,
and
approach
into
his
presence
frequently
,
are
either
Regenerate
or
Unregenerate
,
(
for
we
may
not
believe
,
that
all
outward
Worshippers
are
inwardly
sincere
)
Now
as
to
the
Vnregenerate
,
especially
if
they
are
so
knowingly
,
and
continue
so
contentedly
,
all
their
worship
is
a
meer
lye
,
all
their
devotion
is
a
meer
cheat
,
and
so
an
abomination
unto
God
;
they
do
nothing
else
but
beleagure
and
beset
him
with
lies
,
are
always
fighting
God
with
their
lies
,
and
many
,
perhaps
the
Body
of
Israel
whom
the
Lord
thus
treats
in
the
Text
,
were
such
.
As
to
the
Regenerate
,
they
are
not
wholly
freed
from
this
way
of
lying
,
there
are
some
Remains
of
Guile
and
Hypocrisie
,
which
like
dead
flies
are
dropping
into
,
and
corrupting
the
Oyntment
,
or
Incense
of
their
best
Performances
.
And
for
our
Conviction
,
let
us
look
back
on
the
particular
Instances
given
in
the
several
parts
of
Worship
;
besides
,
what
further
Reflections
every
diligent
,
curious
,
self-examiner
may
make
upon
himself
.
Think
with
our selves
what
a
Trade
of
lying
we
have
driven
with
God
,
how
many
of
those
Abominations
we
have
wrought
in
his
sight
,
how
many
plain
lyes
we
have
told
him
to
his
face
;
and
let
us
be
vile
in
our
own
eyes
,
in
that
we
have
so
often
done
that
which
is
so
vile
in
his
.
The
Lord
expects
very
deep
Humiliation
for
our
so
great
and
frequent
Dissimulation
in
his
Worship
;
whatever
Infirmities
God
may
bear
withal
in
his
Children
,
he
will
not
tolerate
lying
in
them
;
dealing
falsely
in
his
Worship
we
must
very
particularly
repent
of
,
and
reform
.
USE
III.
Let
this
serve
for
a
word
of
solemn
Dehortation
from
this
great
and
frequent
sin
that
is
so
commonly
found
in
the
midst
of
us
.
Oh
all
ye
Worshippers
of
God
be
perswaded
to
put
away
your
lying
,
and
let
your
deceit
no
longer
lodg
with
you
▪
Do
not
come
to
the
House
of
God
to
tell
him
a
pack
of
lies
from
day
to
day
,
Trouble
him
with
no
more
deceitful
and
vain
oblations
,
for
shame
leave
off
lying
.
Paul
charges
them
,
Eph
4.
25.
with
Col.
3.
9.
to
put
away
lying
one
to
another
.
But
this
Doctrine
presents
us
with
a
more
solemn
and
necessary
charge
,
(
and
that
which
if
taken
notice
of
,
and
complied
with
,
would
curge
the
other
)
Lye
not
to
the
God
of
Truth
.
Eli
was
mistaken
when
he
said
to
Hannae
▪
1.
Sam.
1.
14.
How
long
wilt
thou
be
drunk
?
put
away
thy
Wine
.
But
alass
,
that
there
should
be
such
just
cause
to
say
to
many
Worshippers
in
the
House
of
God
,
How
▪
long
will
you
tell
〈◊〉
in
Gods
Worship
,
put
away
your
deceit
from
you
.
so
inforce
this
Disswasive
,
Let
us
consider
,
-
1.
The
Greatness
of
the
sin
.
-
2.
The
●oreness
of
the
punishment
.
-
3.
The
good
of
performing
true
Worship
in
▪
a
right
and
sincere
manner
.
1.
The
greatness
of
the
sin
.
1.
It
is
Lying
.
And
I
need
say
no
more
.
It
's
a
sin
though
so
generally
practised
,
yet
every
where
spoken
against
.
It
is
a
sin
which
mans
corrupt
nature
is
dreadfully
addicted
to
;
they
go
astray
from
the
Womb
,
speaking
lies
,
Psal.
58.
3.
And
yet
it
is
a
sin
condemned
by
the
light
of
nature
,
condemned
by
the
verdict
of
every
mans
Conscience
that
is
not
blinded
or
bribed
,
asleep
or
seared
.
Men
hate
to
be
imposed
upon
with
lies
,
and
will
be
more
ready
to
forgive
a
very
great
fault
than
a
little
one
,
when
aggravated
with
lying
.
It
's
reckoned
among
the
seven
Abominations
that
the
Lord
hates
,
Prov.
6
▪
16.
—
●0
.
yea
and
accounted
big
enough
to
make
two
of
the
seven
(
if
not
three
of
t●em
)
though
in
a
different
sense
.
2.
But
more
than
so
,
it
's
lying
to
God
,
and
that
sin
cost
Ananias
and
Sapphird
their
lives
,
Act.
5
▪
4
,
&c.
And
it
's
no
small
wonder
of
Patience
and
Long-suffering
that
the
Lord
makes
no
more
such
Examples
among
the
great
Troops
of
lying
Worshippers
that
compass
him
every
day
,
especially
considering
what
a
jealous
God
he
is
in
point
of
Worship
.
To
have
a
Company
of
Hypocrites
come
before
God
from
time
to
time
,
only
to
fill
his
ears
with
lies
,
must
needs
be
highly
provoking
,
and
it
is
very
strange
that
the
Angel
of
the
Lord
is
not
sent
forth
to
make
them
all
dead
Corpses
;
Spiritual
Judgments
are
doubtless
secretly
inflicted
upon
them
▪
which
are
the
more
dreadful
because
the
less
observable
.
3.
It
's
rank
Atheism
,
nor
could
men
persist
in
such
a
course
if
they
did
realize
the
Being
of
God
,
or
had
not
in
their
own
imaginations
framed
to
themselves
a
God
like
themselves
.
According
to
our
sentiments
of
God
in
our
Hearts
,
so
are
our
Carriages
toward
him
in
his
Worship
.
Deceitful
Worshiping
of
him
speaks
us
very
much
deceived
in
our
Conceptions
about
him
,
4.
It
i●
extream
insolence
,
daring
boldness
and
presumption
thus
to
impose
upon
God
,
to
fight
against
him
with
our
Lies
,
to
cover
his
Face
and
ask
who
smote
him
.
5.
It
is
folly
in
the
very
Exaltation
of
it
,
such
formal
Services
are
Fools
services
.
Solomon
calls
rash
,
sudden
,
hasty
,
unprepared
Sacrifices
,
the
Sacrifices
of
Fools
,
Eccl.
5.
1.
I
am
sure
,
lying
ones
are
such
.
It
's
folly
for
any
thus
to
go
about
to
impose
on
the
Omniscient
God
,
the
height
of
folly
once
to
dream
of
deceiving
him
,
and
worse
than
madness
it self
to
do
so
by
him
,
if
they
did
not
think
they
could
deceive
him
.
6.
It
disposes
to
a
vain
,
unprofitable
,
Atheistical
Conversation
in
our
whole
Deportment
.
As
we
are
in
our
Worship
,
so
we
are
in
all
our
Walk
.
He
that
is
Formal
and
Atheistical
there
,
will
be
so
elsewhere
.
2.
The
soreness
of
the
punishment
.
And
you
may
well
imagine
that
God
will
in
Justice
provide
a
strange
punishment
for
such
workers
of
Iniquity
;
were
it
only
that
one
Text
,
it
were
very
dreadful
Mala.
1.
14.
Cursed
be
the
Deceiver
▪
If
doing
the
work
of
the
Lord
deceitfully
does
,
then
much
more
the
doing
of
the
worship
of
the
Lord
decitfully
will
bring
a
Curse
Jer.
48.
10.
Particularly
,
1.
All
such
lying
worshippers
will
lose
all
that
they
have
wrought
2.
Joh.
8.
all
our
deceitful
Hearing
,
Praying
,
Sabbath-keeping
▪
&c.
will
be
utterly
lost
,
as
to
any
real
profit
that
shall
ever
come
to
us
by
them
.
Oh
the
many
costly
laborious
services
that
many
Ignorant
zealots
have
lost
!
the
painful
performances
of
the
Papists
that
are
Lies
are
all
lost
,
the
fair
out-side
shews
of
the
Hypocrite
are
all
lost
.
Those
that
are
least
,
or
nothing
in
the
Inside
are
most
in
the
out-side
,
and
they
all
whose
Services
are
a
lye
(
not
having
the
Heart
in
them
)
use
to
lye
most
splendidly
of
any
;
but
they
shall
get
nothing
by
their
lying
,
nothing
from
God
,
nothing
of
his
Company
or
Blessing
:
a
little
Reputation
from
men
they
may
get
,
but
what
does
that
signify
?
They
do
but
worship
him
in
vain
,
Mat.
●5
▪
9.
and
therefore
God
bids
such
deceitful
Offerers
to
bring
no
more
such
vain
oblation
,
Isa.
1.
13.
They
were
utterly
in
vain
as
to
the
great
end
of
them
,
Communion
with
God
by
them
.
There
were
a
company
of
Professing
Believers
,
Joh.
2.
23
,
25
unto
whom
Christ
could
not
commit
himself
,
they
seemed
to
trust
him
,
but
he
would
not
betrust
himself
with
them
,
because
he
knew
their
hearts
,
he
knew
they
were
Lyars
and
Deceivers
in
their
hearts
,
and
their
outward
profession
without
inward
sincerity
,
could
obtain
nothing
with
Christ
.
Lying
spoils
all
conversation
among
men
,
and
hinders
converse
with
Christ
,
Pro.
19.
22.
The
poor
man
is
better
than
the
lyar
.
He
that
serves
God
with
his
Heart
,
though
his
poverty
allows
him
to
offer
no
more
than
two
mites
,
shall
be
accepted
of
God
,
while
the
more
liberal
Contributions
of
heartless
and
therefore
deceitful
men
shall
be
rejected
.
The
want
of
the
Heart
makes
it
a
lye
,
and
every
lye
is
lost
to
the
Maker
.
2.
Nay
more
than
so
,
such
worship
is
not
only
lost
to
them
,
but
very
provoking
to
God
;
they
cannot
anger
a
jealous
God
more
than
by
such
Deceitful
Services
,
his
Anger
smokes
against
lying
Prayers
,
and
the
more
of
such
prayers
,
the
more
Anger
.
Hence
in
the
first
Chapter
following
on
the
Text
it
's
said
,
They
increased
Lies
and
Desolation
;
what
Lies
did
they
increase
?
sure
those
lies
in
worship
,
for
which
they
were
blamed
in
my
Text
;
they
continued
in
their
formal
worship
multiplied
their
Sacrifices
,
and
did
the
while
but
multiply
lies
;
their
new
Sacrifices
were
but
Compassing
God
about
with
new
Lies
;
and
what
did
they
further
increase
thereby
?
why
,
they
increased
Desolation
.
Increase
of
such
Services
,
was
increase
of
Lies
,
increase
of
Lies
was
increase
of
Provocation
unto
God
,
and
consequently
of
Desolation
unto
them
.
It
's
hard
to
say
,
whether
people
do
more
provoke
God
by
their
sins
,
or
by
their
Prayers
and
Confessions
,
performed
with
so
much
Guile
and
Hypocrisie
,
especially
when
by
those
Duties
they
think
to
expiate
their
sins
.
While
they
are
compassing
God
about
with
Lies
,
he
is
compassing
them
about
with
Threatnings
,
which
like
a
storm
of
Hail
shall
sweep
away
their
Refuge
of
Lies
.
Outward
Judgments
are
often
sent
by
God
upon
a
Professing
People
,
as
a
Testimony
from
Heaven
against
such
Falshood
and
Dissimulation
.
Is
not
this
one
main
cause
of
Gods
Severity
towards
us
at
this
day
,
viz
▪
our
prevaricating
with
him
in
his
Worship
?
either
the
total
neglect
of
it
in
many
,
the
deceitful
performances
in
some
,
or
the
unanswerable
walking
in
all
,
has
had
a
deep
share
in
procuring
these
Calamities
under
which
we
are
now
labouring
.
Does
not
the
Lord
render
his
Rebukes
in
flames
of
Fire
,
for
our
coldness
,
or
false
Fire
in
his
Worship
?
The
sudden
stroke
on
Nadab
and
Ab●hu
was
for
their
offering
up
of
strange
Fire
,
and
Lies
is
strange
Fire
.
The
Arrow
shot
out
of
such
a
deceitful
Bow
flies
back
to
the
damage
of
him
that
shoots
it
,
Hos:
7.
16.
Thus
Paul
tells
us
,
that
for
the
abusing
of
that
Ordinance
sickness
and
death
were
sent
among
them
,
1
Cor.
11.
30.
And
no
way
is
an
Ordinance
more
abused
than
by
this
way
of
lying
.
Spiritual
Judgments
,
though
more
secret
,
and
not
so
much
taken
notice
of
,
are
yet
more
dreadful
,
and
no
less
certain
.
As
evil
men
and
seducers
in
point
of
Doctrine
,
so
evil
men
and
deceivers
in
point
of
Worship
,
wax
worse
and
worse
,
2
Tim.
3.
13.
deceiving
and
being
deceived
,
they
deal
Deceitfully
with
God
,
do
deceive
others
,
(
as
has
been
already
noted
)
and
do
most
lamentably
deceive
themselves
into
a
false
peace
,
till
at
length
they
find
themselves
irrecoverably
lost
.
Their
worshipp●ng
imholdens
them
to
sinning
.
They
sin
,
and
then
bring
their
Peace-offering
,
and
so
pay
the
old
score
,
and
then
begin
upon
a
new
,
Prov.
7.
14.
As
if
by
their
Duties
they
●ad
made
amends
for
their
past
sins
,
and
obtained
a
Dispensation
for
the
committing
of
more
.
Thus
the
Prophet
brings
them
in
Jer.
7.
9
,
10.
As
Stealing
,
and
committing
Adultery
,
&c.
and
then
by
Standing
,
i.
e.
Worshipping
or
Sacrificing
)
in
Gods
House
,
think
themselves
delivered
to
do
all
those
Abominations
,
i
▪
e.
delivered
from
the
wickedness
already
done
,
and
licensed
to
hold
on
the
same
Trade
still
.
Thus
as
some
turn
the
Grace
of
God
into
Lasciviousness
,
Jude
4
so
these
turn
the
Worship
of
God
into
Lasciviousness
,
and
what
greater
Spiritual
Judgment
than
to
be
given
up
of
God
to
this
?
It
is
rendered
there
as
a
mark
of
men
of
old
ordained
unto
Condemnation
.
Nothing
more
fatal
,
than
by
▪
vain
Services
,
to
to
be
left
to
vain
Confidences
,
till
unexpected
Ruine
at
last
overtake
them
.
And
that
is
the
last
thing
here
to
be
considered
;
viz.
3.
The
final
destruction
of
such
Deceit●●●
Worship●●rs
whose
Plagues
will
be
most
wonderful
.
Hypocrites
have
the
forest
punishment
allotted
them
.
Every
piece
of
Deceitful
Worship
will
be
an
Article
in
the
Indictment
.
They
make
themselves
Twofold
more
the
Children
of
Damnation
than
the
poor
Heathen
that
never
performed
any
duty
of
Worship
to
God
in
their
lives
.
While
some
Drink
and
Swear
and
Curse
and
Damn
themselves
to
Hell
,
others
pray
and
●ear
themselves
thither
,
and
into
a
deeper
and
hotter
Hell
too
then
others
arrive
at
.
For
men
to-destroy
themselves
with
a
great
deal
of
pains
,
labour
,
cost
,
splendor
and
grandeur
is
the
worst
kind
of
Destruction
.
Your
Lying
,
Deceitful
Services
and
Performances
are
both
the
pretences
that
you
Compass
God
with
,
and
the
sparks
that
you
Compass
and
comfort
your selves
with
,
but
the
Reward
you
will
receive
at
the
hands
of
God
will
be
to
lye
down
in
sorrow
,
Isa.
50.
ult:
Such
Worshippers
of
God
are
nevertheless
counted
forgotters
of
God
,
and
their
Doom
is
,
To
be
Torn
in
Pieces
without
any
to
deliver
them
.
Psal.
50
▪
22.
The
Benefit
of
True
and
Sincere
Worshipping
of
God
.
This
is
a
large
Theam
,
I
shall
but
glance
at
a
few
hints
▪
What
is
said
of
keeping
Gods
Commandments
in
General
▪
Great
is
the
Reward
Psa.
9.
11.
is
eminently
true
of
the
second
Commandment
,
which
gives
▪
direction
about
Instituted
Worship
,
see
Exod.
20.
6.
And
if
you
referr
it
to
the
Third
Commandment
,
where
the
Lord
threatens
the
Breaker
of
it
,
Not
to
●old
him
guil●less
,
it
is
a
Meiosis
,
and
sorest
wrath
is
intended
therein
,
and
on
the
other-hand
all
manner
of
blessings
are
designed
for
the
keeper
of
that
Command
.
If
the
Deceiver
in
Worship
be
Cursed
Mala.
1
,
11.
Then
the
sincere
Worshiper
is
blessed
.
Blessed
with
all
spiritual
blessings
,
God
accepts
his
Services
,
remembers
his
Offerings
,
will
give
him
pardon
,
peace
,
joy
,
the
strength
of
his
Right
Hand
&c.
see
Psal.
20.
1
—
6.
He
shall
see
the
Lords
goings
in
his
Sanctuary
.
And
shall
be
able
to
attest
to
Davids
Experience
,
(
Psal.
84.
10
▪
)
One
day
in
Gods
House
is
worth
a
Thousand
.
Blessed
with
all
outward
blessings
also
.
Seeking
the
Kingdom
of
God
first
,
(
of
which
no
small
part
lies
in
a
right
performing
the
worship
of
the
Kingdom
)
has
a
promise
of
the
Addition
of
all
other
things
,
M●●
.
6.
33.
God
de●ls
wi●h
a
professing
people
as
they
deal
with
him
in
his
Worship
.
If
we
Compass
him
with
hearty
sincere
service
,
he
will
Compas●●●
with
favour
as
with
a
Shield
Psal.
●
12
,
Mercy
shall
Compass
us
,
no
good
thing
shall
be
wa●●ing
to
us
.
While
such
kind
of
formal
worshippers
of
whom
we
have
been
speaking
,
say
as
they
feel
,
that
it
is
in
vain
to
serve
God
,
we
shall
speak
as
we
find
,
That
it
is
good
for
us
to
draw
near
unto
God
,
Psal.
23.
28.
Directions
for
the
Cure
of
this
Malady
.
1.
Be
sure
we
fix
upon
the
right
(
and
there
is
but
one
right
)
Object
of
Worship
.
Thou
shalt
worship
the
Lord
thy
God
,
and
him
only
shalt
thou
serve
,
Mat.
4.
10.
The
great
God
is
the
sole
Object
of
Worship
.
Let
us
not
make
our
Bellies
our
God
,
Gold
our
Hope
,
the
World
our
portion
▪
nor
our
own
Righteousness
,
Wisdom
,
or
Strength
our
Idol
;
nor
our selves
our
Saviours
,
Sacrifice
not
to
our
own
Net
,
nor
burn
Incense
to
our
own
Drag
.
Hab.
1.
16.
2.
Be
well
acquainted
with
the
Person
whom
we
Worship
,
and
that
will
oblige
us
what
we
may
to
study
a
proportion
between
our
Worship
,
and
the
Object
of
our
Worship
.
The
Knowledge
of
God
will
teach
us
that
he
is
to
be
Worshipped
,
and
also
how
he
is
to
be
Worshipped
,
will
make
us
fear
to
neglect
it
,
and
assist
us
in
the
due
performance
of
it
.
To
cure
the
Deceiver
that
had
a
Male
in
his
flock
,
but
offered
a
corrupt
thing
,
the
Lord
gives
him
to
understand
,
and
wills
him
to
consider
that
he
was
a
Great
King
,
and
had
a
Dreadful
Name
,
even
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
Mal.
1.
14.
His
being
a
Spirit
will
tell
us
that
he
is
to
be
Worshipped
in
Spirit
and
Truth
,
not
after
a
carnal
and
lying
manner
.
Consider
him
as
the
first
Being
,
&
chiefest
Good
,
&
thence
learn
,
that
the
first
&
best
of
our
Hearts
,
Abilities
,
Time
,
Spirits
,
Souls
,
are
his
due
,
and
that
lame
,
blind
,
heartless
,
lifeless
Services
are
very
much
unbecoming
him
.
His
Soveraignty
as
it
commands
Devotion
,
so
it
will
guard
us
from
snuffing
at
his
Service
,
or
s●ubbering
over
his
Worship
.
His
Omnipresence
will
beget
Reverence
,
and
promote
Sincerity
.
It
's
no
great
matter
how
men
carry
it
before
an
Idol
that
has
no
eyes
,
but
Reason
,
much
more
Religion
will
direct
us
to
look
to
our selves
,
when
we
have
such
an
eye
upon
us
,
and
will
be
useful
to
prevent
that
commonness
of
Heart
and
Carriage
so
unsuitable
for
his
Presence
.
His
Omniscience
will
assure
us
that
he
will
not
be
shamm'd
nor
imposed
upon
,
there
's
no
mocking
him
with
shadows
or
pretences
;
he
is
not
to
be
treated
after
that
manner
.
He
will
say
to
every
Hypocrite
▪
tho'
under
the
greatest
disguise
,
why
feignest
thou
thy self
to
be
another
person
,
I
have
heavy
Tidings
for
thee
;
and
a
Curse
upon
the
Deceiver
is
heavy
Tidings
.
His
Omnipotence
will
represent
him
as
a
person
that
has
in
a
readiness
wherewith
to
avenge
all
Affronts
,
and
to
assist
all
the
Humble
Souls
that
desire
to
serve
him
better
.
His
Holiness
tells
us
that
we
must
lift
up
holy
hands
and
hearts
before
him
,
and
purge
our selves
in
order
to
our
being
Vessels
fit●ed
for
our
Masters
use
.
His
Justice
will
caution
us
from
taking
his
Name
in
vain
,
because
he
will
not
hol●
us
Guiltless
;
and
when
we
take
up
his
Worship
without
spirit
,
heart
,
life
,
care
,
labour
,
seriousness
,
we
take
his
Name
in
vain
.
His
Bounty
and
Goodness
will
quicken
us
to
serve
him
with
Enlargedness
of
Heart
,
who
hath
such
a
liberal
hand
to
reward
all
his
Servants
.
His
Truth
and
Faithfulness
as
they
will
put
us
beyond
dispute
about
the
certainty
of
the
Reward
,
if
we
serve
him
well
,
so
of
the
Punishment
,
if
trifling
and
slightly
therein
.
Thus
right
Conceptions
of
God
will
notably
influence
you
into
right
Worship
,
&
a
due
performance
of
it
.
3.
Study
well
the
right
way
in
which
God
will
be
Worshipped
,
and
his
own
way
is
the
only
right
way
.
He
hath
plainly
told
us
in
his
Word
,
how
he
will
be
Worshipped
;
if
we
bring
him
any
other
Worship
than
that
of
his
own
prescribing
,
he
will
call
it
lying
and
deceit
.
Beware
therefore
that
none
spoil
you
through
vain
deceit
after
the
Traditions
of
men
,
Col.
2.
8.
A
very
good
caution
,
for
Traditions
of
men
in
the
Worship
of
God
,
will
spoil
our
Worship
,
and
spoil
us
also
,
aand
are
rightly
called
deceitful
and
vain
,
because
they
take
us
off
from
the
only
true
,
acceptable
and
profitable
Service
of
God
.
Resolve
upon
it
,
either
Bible-Worship
or
none
at
all
,
all
other
being
as
,
yea
worse
than
none
.
It
's
lying
worship
if
not
warranted
by
God's
Word
,
whatever
pretences
it
may
make
to
Decency
in
it self
,
or
Authority
from
men
,
Traditions
from
our
Fore-fathers
,
or
the
Commands
of
the
Church
,
God
will
say
of
it
,
Bring
no
more
vain
oblations
,
&
who
has
required
these
things
at
your
hands
?
Nor
will
God
take
it
as
an
answer
if
we
say
that
Ecclesiastical
Authority
enjoyned
it
,
unless
it
agree
with
the
Pattern
in
the
Mount
,
and
be
prescribed
by
the
Lord
of
the
House
.
4.
Let
us
offer
up
all
our
worship
by
Christ
,
God
in
Christ
is
the
object
of
Divine
Worship
.
To
goe
to
God
in
our
Prayers
or
other
Services
,
immediately
,
to
God
out
of
or
without
Christ
is
to
lye
in
our
services
.
That
General
Rule
of
Doing
all
in
the
Name
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Col.
●
.
17.
holds
most
strictly
in
point
of
worship
.
All
our
prayers
are
to
be
made
in
his
Name
,
Job
.
14.
41.
And
all
our
praises
are
to
be
Offered
up
by
him
,
Heb.
13.
15.
Otherwise
what-ever
of
Labour
,
Care
,
Zeal
,
Cost
,
may
be
put
into
our
Oblations
,
if
there
be
nothing
of
Christ
in
them
they
signify
nothing
at
all
with
God
;
they
are
Lame
,
Blind
,
Lean
and
Dead
Sacrifices
,
and
will
be
most
displeasing
in
Gods
most
Pure
Eies
,
and
the
savour
of
them
very
offensive
to
his
Nostrils
if
not
perfumed
with
the
Incense
of
his
Merits
which
he
is
Offering
up
with
the
prayers
of
the
Saints
.
5.
See
that
our
Hearts
be
in
the
worship
,
fervently
and
frequently
make
that
necessary
Prayer
,
Ps.
119.
●0
.
Let
my
Heart
be
sound
in
thy
Statutes
,
especially
sound
in
thy
Statutes
and
my
performances
about
Worship
,
because
God
is
eminently
Jealous
there
.
Daily
make
Davids
prayer
,
That
God
will
remove
from
us
the
way
of
lying
,
Psal.
119.
29.
And
that
particularly
when
we
draw
near
unto
God
in
worship
,
that
we
may
do
it
with
a
true
Heart
,
Heb.
10.
22.
Ingage
the
Heart
to
go
along
with
our
Bodies
and
Tongues
,
when
addressing
the
Heart-searching
God
,
yea
&
do
not
only
carry
our
Hearts
thither
,
but
by
an
extraordinary
care
and
watchfulness
keep
them
there
,
that
they
may
not
give
you
the
slip
,
and
so
render
all
your
worship
successless
,
because
heart●ess
.
Then
only
do
you
worship
God
in
Spirit
and
Truth
when
your
Hearts
are
sincerely
active
in
what
you
do
.
Dare
not
offer
unto
God
that
which
cost
you
nothing
but
a
little
Breath
and
Lip-labour
,
remember
that
your
Heart
gives
value
to
your
two
Mites
,
the
least
piece
of
Hearty
Service
is
in
high
esteem
with
God
.
6.
Finally
●et
our
constant
Walk
be
always
consonant
to
our
Worship
,
our
Deportment
agreeable
to
our
Devotions
,
our
whole
Conversations
such
as
become
such
Worshippers
.
A
loose
Conversation
gives
the
lye
to
a
specious
profession
.
If
what
be
said
in
words
is
contradicted
in
works
,
God
will
call
it
lying
and
deceit
,
Tit.
1.
16.
To
be
zealous
and
warm
in
our
Worship
but
luke
warm
and
carnal
in
our
Walk
is
most
absurd
and
Contradictory
.
Let
us
Live
our
Hearing
,
Praying
,
Sabbaths
,
Sacraments
,
&c.
and
then
we
worship
well
,
And
if
we
do
indeed
worship
well
,
our
worship
to
God
will
observably
Influence
,
all
our
converse
with
men
.
And
Oh
how
amiable
and
pleasant
is
an
Harmonious
Agreement
there
!
And
how
unseemly
the
contrary
!
That
men
walk
no
better
before
and
after
worship
,
is
an
ill
sign
of
their
being
insincere
and
false
and
deceitful
in
it
.
To
Conclude
,
Thus
you
have
heard
one
more
very
common
and
provoking
sin
declaimed
against
.
And
note
that
when
the
Lord
gave
the
Prophet
Isa.
58.
1.
&c.
his
Commission
To
shew
unto
his
people
their
Transgressions
,
And
to
the
house
of
Jacob
their
sins
,
this
was
the
first
sin
that
he
directed
him
to
lift
up
his
voice
and
sound
his
Trumpet
against
.
There
was
much
Worship
,
but
little
Holiness
,
many
Sacrifices
but
no
Righteousness
,
frequent
Approaches
to
God
,
but
little
Walking
with
him
.
And
it
's
evident
that
their
design
in
these
external
performances
was
to
conceal
or
get
allowance
for
their
wickedness
,
as
appears
by
quarrelling
God
that
he
took
no
more
notice
of
their
Fastings
,
nor
gave
them
expected
Answers
to
their
Prayers
,
though
the
Lord
sufficiently
stopt
their
mouth
,
by
letting
them
know
,
that
while
they
lived
in
such
palpable
neglect
of
the
Second-Table-Duties
,
their
pretended
compliance
with
the
First
,
could
very
little
avail
them
.
Of
the
like
import
is
Psal.
50.
and
Isa.
1.
in
the
latter
of
which
he
plainly
tells
them
,
That
the
multitude
of
their
Sacrifices
was
to
no
purpose
,
they
did
but
trouble
him
,
and
not
profit
themselves
:
&
God
bids
them
give
over
,
verse
13.
Not
that
he
did
abate
them
these
Sacrifices
,
or
will
abate
us
our
Devotion
;
no
,
but
bring
no
more
vain
Oblations
;
so
does
God
say
to
us
,
bring
no
more
lying
Services
,
make
no
more
deceitful
Prayers
;
let
me
have
no
more
of
these
formal
,
Hypocritic●l
Assemblings
Upon
the
penalty
of
losing
all
our
Prayers
,
(
&
we
had
better
lose
all
the
Comforts
we
have
in
the
World
,
than
lose
our
Prayers
)
Upon
the
penalty
of
having
them
turned
into
sin
,
(
a
dreadful
〈◊〉
on
upon
Judas
that
monstrous
Hypocri●e
,
as
appears
by
comparing
Psal
109.
7.
with
Act.
●
.
20.
and
that
which
every
such
dissembling
Worshipper
may
be
afraid
of
.
)
Upon
the
penalty
of
losing
all
gracious
converse
with
God
,
of
blocking
up
the
way
to
prevent
any
good
coming
at
thee
for
ever
,
of
having
the
Lord
to
kindle
a
fire
in
his
Jealousie
that
shall
burn
to
the
lowest
H●ll
,
of
his
rending
thee
in
pieces
,
&
there
be
none
to
deliver
thee
,
I
say
upon
all
these
penalties
,
(
and
they
are
terrible
ones
)
leave
off
,
presently
and
utterly
leave
off
All
lying
&
dissembling
with
God
in
his
Worship
.
Do
not
cast
off
worship
because
it
is
so
dangerous
to
intermeddle
with
,
but
engage
in
it
sincerely
;
heartily
,
with
Reverence
&
godly
fear
,
shun
the
lying
&
deceit
that
too
often
does
attend
it
,
comply
with
the
sincerity
&
painfulness
,
care
&
conscience
that
always
should
attend
it
.
Sincerity
will
God
approve
of
and
countenance
;
Infirmity
,
especially
when
bemoaned
&
resisted
,
he
will
forgive
&
overlook
,
&
all
the
expence
we
are
at
in
Worshipping
God
in
spirit
&
truth
,
will
be
plentifully
compensated
by
fulfilling
that
promise
,
Exo.
20.
23.
In
all
places
where
I
record
my
name
I
will
come
unto
thee
,
and
I
will
Bless
thee
.
FINIS
▪