USE. Let us examine, Whether the Lord be our God? I. Do we fear him as God? 1. Only, Pfal. lxxvi. 11. 8 Matt. X. 28. 2. Conftantly. II. Do we love him as God? 1. Wholly, Deut. vi. 5. Matt. xxii. 37. 3. Continually. III. Do we truft in him as God? 1. With all our Hearts, Prov. iii. 5. Pfal. lxii. 5, 6, 7. 2. At all Times, Pfal. lxii. 8. IV. Do we esteem and honour him as God? 1. As the only true God, John xvii. 3, 15. Pfal. cxxxv. 5. 2. As the high and mighty God, 1 Tim.i. 17. V. Do we ferve and worship him as God? 1. Reverently, Heb. xii. 28. 2. Sincerely, 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. John iv. 22. 6. Continually, Luke i. 74, 75. LEVIT LEVIT. xi. 44. And ye foall be holy, for I am holy. THE HEY that have the Lord Jehoval for their I. What is it to be fanctified ? 1. To be fanctified, in Scripture Senfe, implies to be feparated and fet apart from common Use. Exod. xl. 10. So fhould we, 1. From Sin, Ifa. i. 16. 1 Thef. v. 22. I 2. The World, Jac. i. 27. 2. To be dedicated to the Service of Gød, Pfa. iv. 3. #. Wholly. 2. To all God's Service. 3. With all their Might. 1. In Soul, I Cor. vi. 20. 2. Body, 3. Conftantly. 3. To be prepared for great Works, Ifa. xiii. 3. Fet. vi. קדשו עליה מלחמה .4 .Jer. vi 1. For the conquering our Spiritual Enemies, Sin, Satan, the World. 2. The worshipping of God. 3. The glorifying his great Name: 4. To fanctify, is to ufe all Things that belong to God with Reverence, Ifa. viii. 13. Deut. xxviii. 58. I 7 J 1. His Name, fa, xxix. 23, x) offx opxor. 3. His Ordinances. 5. To be fanctified, is to have the Principles of Holinefs implanted in the Soul, They that worship Jehovab, fhould be an ho ly People. II: What is it to be holy? 1. Internal Holinefs is the Conformity of the Will of Man to the Will of God. 1. What is the Will of Man? A Faculty of the Rational Soul, whereby it chufes or refufes what the Underftanding judges good or evil. 2: What is the Will of God, viz. his natu ral Will? An effential Property in God, whereby he approves or disapproves of all Things, as they are agreeable or contrary to his Nature. 3: What is it for the Will of Man to be conformable to the Will and Nature of God? 1 Pet. i. 15. That we place our Wills, 1. Upon the fame Objects, 2. In the fame Manner as he doth. . He wills himself as his chief End and Good, Prov. XVI. 4. 2. He wills Mercy, Hof.vi. 6. Matt. ix. 13 Exod. xxxiv. 6. 3. Juftice: 4. The Salvation and Happiness of Man, 1 Tim. ii. 4: Ezek. xxxiii. 51. III. What III. What does he abhor or disapprove ? 1. Generally, Sin. 2. Particularly, Prov. vi. 16, 17, 18, 19. 2. Lies, Prov. xii. 22. Pfal. cxix. 163. 4. Wicked Imaginations, Pfal. cxix. 113. Prov. xv. 26. 5. Mischief, Pfal. xi. 5: 6. False Witness. 7: Discord. 8. Idolatry, Jer. xxxii. 35. 1 Reg. xi. 5,7. 9. Covetoufnefs, Pfal. x. 3: 10. Cheating, or divers Weights,Prov.xx: 10, 23. 11. Witchcraft, Deut. xviii. 10, 11, 12. 12: False Doctrines, Rev. ii. 15. USE. Examine, Whether you be thus eternally holy or no? Confider, 1. If you be mistaken here, you are undone. 2. Many have been mistaken, Matt. vii. 22. C. XXV. II, 12. 3. Your not examining your felves whether you be holy, is a Sign you are not fo. 2 Cor. xiii. 5. 4. It particularly concerns us to examine our felves now, because of the Sacrament. 1 Cor. xi. 28. DIRECTIONS. I. Search the Scriptures, John V. 39. 2. Obferve your Lives, Lam. 3. 40. 1. Your Thoughts. 2. Affections. 1. Repentance. 2. Faith. 3. Love. 4. Defires. 5. Joys. 3. Actions. 1. Civil, Matt. vii. 12: Compare your Lives with the Laws of God, Gal. vi. 16. Exhort. Labour after Holiness. I. The Excellency of its Nature. 1. It is the Image of God, 1 Pet· ië 15. Gen. i. 26. Eph. iv. 24. 2. The Perfection of the Soul. II. Its Profitableness, Job xxi. 15. 1 Tim. iv. 8. By it we may have, 1. Pardon of Sin 2. The Favour of God, Pfal. xxx. 5. III. Its Honours, Prov. xii. 26. 1. Honourable Titles, 1 Pet. ii. 9. 2. The Attendants of Angels, Heb. i. 14. Pfal. xci. II. Relation to God. 4. Free Admiffion to Him, Heb. iv. 16. IV. Its Pleasures. 1. In knowing God, and the Things of Eternity. Vol. I. 2. In |