the heart of the
most holy! We do not always meditate, with David, Psal. cxxxix., on that
all searching and all knowing Spirit who knows our down sitting and
uprising, and understands our thoughts afar off, and who is acquainted
with all our ways. O how would we ponder our path, and examine our words,
and consider our thoughts beforehand if we set ourselves in the view of
such a Spirit, that is within us and without us, before us and behind us!
He may spare sinners as long as he pleases, for there is no escaping from
him. You cannot go out of his dominions, nay, you cannot run out of his
presence, Psal. cxxxix. 7-10. He can reach you when he pleases, therefore
he may delay as long as he pleases.

Lecture XI.

The Knowledge That God Is, Combined With The Knowledge That He Is To Be
Worshipped.

John iv. 24.--"God is a Spirit, and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth."

There are two common notions engraven on the hearts of all men by
nature,--that God is, and that he must be worshipped, and these two live
and die together, they are clear, or blotted together. According as the
apprehension of God is clear, and distinct, and more deeply engraven on
the soul, so is this notion of man's duty of worshipping God clear and
imprinted on the soul, and whenever the actions of men do prove that the
conception of the worship of God is obliterate or worn out,--whenever their
transgressions do witness that a man hath not a lively notion of this duty
of God's worship,--that doth also prove that the very notion of a godhead
is worn out, and cancelled in the soul, for how could souls conceive of
God as he is indeed, but they must needs, with Moses, (Exod. xxxiv. 8)
make haste to pray and worship? It is the principle of the very law of
nature which shall make the whole world inexcusable, "because that when
they knew God, they glorified him not as God." A father must have honour,
and a master must have fear, and God, who is the common parent and
absolute master of all, must have worship, in which reverence and fear,
mixed with rejoicing and affection, predominate. It is supposed, and put
beyond all question that he must be; "he that worships him, must worship
him in spirit and in truth." It is not simply said, God is a Spirit and
must be worshipped, no, for none can doubt of it. If God be, then
certainly worship is due to him, for who is so worshipful? And becau