8. His Eternity, Deut. xxxiii. 27. 2. Rejoyce in him. 10. His Simplicity, Job. xiv. 6, 1. Get fimple Apprehenfions of him. EXO D. EX O D. XX. Androy, Deut. iv. 13. "Wo TWO Two Tableseface exciting and obliging to Obedience. 1. I am the Lord, 2. Thy God, TN. 3. That brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, that delivers us from all our Troubles, Spiritual and Temporal. PRECEPT. I. Thou shalt have no other Gods befides me. All internal Duties to GOD here commanded. 1. To know and acknowledge Him. 2. To believe on Him."" 3. To hope and truft in Him. 4. To love Him. 5. To fear Him. 6. To fubmit to Him. This Command is broken, 1. By Atheists, Idolaters, Aftrologers, and all that confult them, or the Devil, or Conjurers. 2. By Despair and Prefumption. 3. By preferring Riches, or ought elfe before Him. LEVIT. LEVIT. XI. 44. For I am the Lord your God: You sball therefore fanctifie your felves, and ye shall be holy, for I am holy. 1. THE HE Lord Jehovah is to be our GOD. 1. Who is the Lord Jehovah? 1. The Creator, Preferver, and Governor of the the 2. A God giving actual Being to his Promifes, under which Notion he was not known before Mofes, Exod. vi. 2, 3. He was Doctrinally known fo, 1. To Abraham, Gen. xv. 6. 2. Tơ Ifaat, Gen. xxvi. 24, 25. 3. To Jacob, Gen. xxviii. 13, 16. but not Experimentally. II. What is it to Rnow the Lord to be our GOD? 1. As by our Fall we loft the Favour, so also the Knowledge of the True GOD. 2. But all ftill acknowledge fome GOD, di אני יהוה אלהיכם Πάντες 28, μay on top stor, Justin. Omnes i tamen effe vim & naturam Divinam arbitur. Cicero. rot 3 trantur. Gentium Dii qui habentur hinc a nobis profecti reperientur. Cicero. 30 Diodorus Siculus, Lucian, Porphyry, Aurelius Victor, and Sanchoniathon himself acknowledge. 3. But most acknowledge and worship falfe Gods. 1. Meny Jupiter, Saturn, &c. 2. Devils, Levit. xvii. 7. Oy, Hirci, in the Syriack and Arabick, Damonia. 3 3. Beafts. 3. Beafts. The Egyptians, Ta uxsh Ewur Oεés időkαour, Laert. So Plutarch, Lucian, Strabo, Alian. 4. Sun, Moon, and Stars: As the Indians, Phrygians, Athenians, Zabeans, Perfians, Romans, Grecians, Old Saracens, Jer. vii. 18. 5. Images, Exod. xx. 4. They are referred by Eutychins to Ebers, by Epiphanius to Abraham and Terab's Time. 4. The true God was pleafed to reveal himfelf to Abraham, Gen. xii. 1. 5. Of all the Gods that are worshipped, we are to chufe this Jehovah to be our God. III. Why fhould we have Jehovah for our God? 1. He is the Living, 1 Theff. i. 9. 2. True, Fer! x. 10. 3. Only God, Deut. iv. 34. Ifa. xlv. 5. IV. What kind of Worfhip fhould we perform to this God? 1. Inward, Feb. iv. 24. 1. In our Understandings, 1 Cor. xiv. 14. 2. Wills Prov. iii. 1. 3. Affections. 2. Outward. 1. In our Bodies, Rom. xii. 1. Pfal. kc¥. 6, 2. Lives. 3. Actions, 1 Cor. x. 31. USE. 1. Blefs the Lord for revealing himself to you. 2. Beware of Idols, 1. Idol Honours. Job. v. 21. 2. Idol Pleasures, Phil. iii. 19. 3. Idol Riches, Col. iii. 5. Eph. v. 5. 4. Idol 4. Idol Relations, Matt. x. 37. 3. Take the Lord for your God. 1. Confider, He will be your God,Heb. viii, 10. I. He is all. 1. An All-merciful God to pardon, Exod: xxxiv. 6. Jer. xxxi. 34. Mich. vii. 18. Pfal. xxxii. 1. 2. An All-wife God to direct, 1 Tîm. i. 17. Ifa. xlv. 13. 3. An All-powerful God, Matt. xix. 26. 1. Can protect them from, 2. Give them Victory over, their Enemies. 1. Spiritual. I. Sin. 2. Satan. 3. The World, 1 Job. v. 4. 2. Temporal. 4. An Omnipresent God, Pfal. cxxxix. 7. 1. Help, Ifa. xli. 10, 13, 14. Pfal. xlvi. 1. 2. Comfort us, Ifa. 51. 12. 2 Cor. i. 3, 4. 5. An All-faithful God to his Promifes. II. He hath all, Pfal. xxiv. 1. I. Grace to make us holy,Ezek. xxxvi.25,26. 2. Comforts to make us chearful, Job xvi. 2. 3. Glory to make us happy. III. He doth all. 1. By his ordinary Providence, Rom. viii. 28. 2. Or by his extraordinary Power; as in JoSepb, the Three Children, Daniel, Peter. 2. Confider the Happiness of those that have the Lord to be their God. Pfal. cxliv. 15. 1. It is he alone that made you. 2. That preferves you, Acts xvii. 28. USE |