but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy
God?" So then, thou dost not worship him in truth, but in a shadow. The
truth is holiness and righteousness. That external profession is but a
ceremony. While you separate these external ordinances from these weighty
duties of piety and justice, they are but a dead body without a soul. If
the Lord required truth of old, much more now, when he hath abolished the
multitude of ceremonies, that the great things of his law may be more seen
and loved.

If you would then be true worshippers, look to the whole mind of God, and
especially the chief pleasure of God's mind, that which he most delights
in, and by any means do not separate what God hath conjoined. Do not
divide righteousness towards men from a profession of holiness to God,
else it is but a falsehood, a counterfeit coin. Do not please yourselves
so much in external church privileges, without a holy and godly
conversation adorning the gospel, but let the chief study, endeavour, and
delight of your souls be about that which God most delights in. Let the
substantiate of religion have the first place in the soul. Pray more in
secret, that will be the life of your souls. You ought, indeed, to attend
public ordinances, but, above all, take heed to your conversation and
walking at home, and in secret. Prayer in your family is a more
substantial worship than to sit and hear prayer in public, and prayer in
secret is more substantial than that. The more retired and immediate a
duty be, the more weighty it is, the more it crosses thy corruptions and
evidences the stamp of God on thy affections, the more divine it is, and
therefore to serve God in these is to serve him in truth. Practice hath
more of truth in it than a profession. "When your fathers executed
judgment, was not this to know me?" Duties that have more opposition from
our nature, against them, and less fuel or oil to feed the flame of our
self love and corruption, have more truth in them, and if you should
worship God in all other duties, and not especially in these, you do not
worship him in truth.

Next, let us consider the manner of divine worship, and this is as needful
to true worship as true matter, that it he commanded, and done as it is
commanded,--that completes true worship. Now, I know no better way or
manner to worship God in, than so to worship him, as our worship may carry
the stamp of his image upon it as it may be a glass wherein we ma