...law from his lips, and obey it from our hearts ! Is God present ? — Then " keep thy foot when tliou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear,...fools ; for they consider not that they do evil." Eccles. v. 1. Then restrain every wandering thought, solemnize every emotion, consecrate every affection,...

...this end it is pleaded by the wise king : " Keep " thy foot, when thou goest to the house of God ; " be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine " heart...before God ; " for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth."7 It also tends no less to remind us what the great end of our prayers and our lives should...

...baseness, and Oh ! the distance ! This is Solomon's advice : Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God, for...and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few, Eccl. v. 2. This would keep us from our ordinary babblings, that heart nonsense, which, though the...

...baseness, and Oh ! the distance ! This is Solomon's advice : Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God, for...and thou upon earth, therefore let thy words be few , Eccl. v. 2. This would keep us from our ordinary babblings, that heart nonsense, which, though the...

...Surely this also ú vanity and vexation of spirit. CHAP. V. d T7" EEP thy foot when thou go_FlL est ORD my God, I pray Ihce, let this child's «oui come into him again, m 22 And the LOKD thy heart be hasty to utler vny thing before God : for God if in heaven, and thou upon earth : therefore...

...Solomon gives this general direction for our conduct in the management of Divine Worship : " Keep thy foot, when thou goest to the House of God; and be...of fools: for they consider not that they do evil h ." Further; our worship of the Most High must possess the following properties, to commend it to...

...worshippers rashly intrude into the divine presence. They have neglected the solemn precept, " Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more...fools ; for they consider not that they do evil." God is a Spirit ; and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The Father seeketh...

...regard. The caution we have, Eccles. v. 1. is to the same purpose : ' Keep thy foot when thou goest into the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than...fools ; for they consider not that they do evil.' I shall not stand upon the particular exposition of any of these expressions, but it is a plain caution...

...cautious and exact, as the wise man admonisheth, Eccl. v. 2, " Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God, for...thou upon, earth, therefore let thy words be few," that is, well weighed in prayer or vows, God is of infinite majesty not to be despised, of transcendant...

...minds should be composed and abstracted from the world. The injunction of Solomon should be remembered: "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart...thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few." Job sent and sanctified his children, before family sacrifices were offered. Some preparation of this...