. Sermons on the following subjects .. . ce and care, not taking libertiesunallowed by our religion, and for whichwe {hall pay dear afterwards -, pradtifing e-very virtue as we have opportunity for it,and baulking no fair occafion of doing goodto ourfelves or others. A condud: like thiswill naturally beget a humble confidence to-wards God, and a greater difpofition for theduties of piety, the confequence of bothwhich will be, a greater delight in the per-formance of them; for when the mind iskept pure and free from all corrupt and in-I 2 ordinate ii6 Of the naturey pleafuresy Vol. I, ordinate
. Sermons on the following subjects .. . ce and care, not taking libertiesunallowed by our religion, and for whichwe {hall pay dear afterwards -, pradtifing e-very virtue as we have opportunity for it,and baulking no fair occafion of doing goodto ourfelves or others. A condud: like thiswill naturally beget a humble confidence to-wards God, and a greater difpofition for theduties of piety, the confequence of bothwhich will be, a greater delight in the per-formance of them; for when the mind iskept pure and free from all corrupt and in-I 2 ordinate ii6 Of the naturey pleafuresy Vol. I, ordinate paffions, and the confcience calmand undifturbed, the mind will have lefs toretard it in its afcent to God, and all thofepious and heavenly afFedions will grow upin it which are the very life and ipirit of*devotion. II. I am next to illuftrate this truth oithe pleafure and advantage of devotion, by adiftind confideration of the feveral particu-lar duties in which the foul draws nigh toGod i and this I (hall do in a following SE R- S E R. V. and advantage of devotion. 117 SERMON V. Of the pleafures, and advantageof devotion. Psalm Ixxiii. 28, It is good for me to draw near toGod. ON thefe words I have made the fol-lowing obfervation, T^hat a devout ap^f roach to God in the exercifes of divine wor-Jhip is attended with pleajure and advantageto the fouL This Propofition I undertookto prove and illuftrate by applying myfelf I. To the confideratlon of devotion in ge-neral; and I have reprefented its nature,pleafure, and advantages. II. To the confideration of the particularduties of it, viz, prayer, finging the praifesof God, reading and hearing his word, me-ditation, and the holy communion. This I 3 par? 118 Of the nature^ pJeafures, Vol. I. part of my defign I am now to execute, and let us begin I. With Prayer, herein it is good todraw nigh to God. The advantage of thisduty is great upon many accounts, and ex-ceeding obvious to any who will confiderit. I (hall only co
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