ing heavenly things near us; " "Hearken unto me, ye ftout-hearted, that are far from righteoufnefs; I bring near my righteoufnefs; it fhall not be far off; and my falvation fhall not tarry." He placeth this falvation in Zion, for Ifrael his glory, Ifa. xl. 12, 13. "The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart; that is the word of faith which we preach," Rom. x. 8. The word is nigh to your heart: for the Lord is dealing with your heart by it: O may he not only deal, but prevail. For,

6. It is a powerful, conquering found; it will overcome and prevail, fo as to reach the end of it one way cr another: "It fhall not return unto me void; but it fhall accomplish that which I pleafe, and it fhall profper in the thing whereto I fent it," Ifaiah lv. 11. God will not blow his trumpet in vain; all rejecters and defpifers fhall be rendered inexcufeable by it; and all his elect fhall be mercifully conquered; for the trumpet hath a furmounting found; it founds over the tops of all the hills and mountains of fin and guilt, and of unbelief and enmity; "The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, and skipping upon the hills," Song ii. 8. The voice of the Lord is powerful, melting down mountains in his way. "The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars of Lebanon.”. This leads,

IV. To the Fourth General Head propofed, To touch at the efficacy of this means; and why it is promifed, that a number of outcaft finners, ready to perish, by the blowing of the great trumpet, fhall come. Arminian doctrine, that aboundeth in our day, makes the efficacy of the gofpel depend upon man's free-will: but, we have not fo learned Chrift: he hath made furer work; and all the efficacy to depend upon his free grace and this is fecured by his fhall be: The great trumpet SHALL BE blown, and they SHALL come. The Father's promife to the Son fecures it; "Thy people fhall be willing in the day of thy power, Pfalm cx. 3.-He fhall fee his feed. He fhall fee the travail of his foul, and be fatisfied." The Father's promife to the Son is fecured and confirmed by his oath upon this head, Pfal. lxxxix.

35. "Once have I fworn by my holinefs, that I will not lie unto David. His feed fhall endure for ever;" his feed among Jews and Gentiles, and among the nations afar off; "I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the utmost ends of the earth for thy pof feffion. He fhall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles, and the ifles fhall wait for his law." Amidft all the difcouragements that men may give us in our preaching the gospel, here is the encouragement that God gives us in blowing the great trumpet in the ears of outcasts, ready to perifh. There is a number among them that fhall come; " Other fheep I have, that are not of this fold; them alfo I must bring, and they fhall hear my voice," John x. 16. I muft bring them, and they must come. The sweet neceffity he is under of bringing them, produces in the day of power, a fweet neceflity in them, faying, O we must come to Chrift; we perifh without him we hear the found of his trumpet; and therefore we fay, "Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art the Lord our God."

Queft. Why is it promifed, that a number of outcafts, ready to perifh, fhall come, when the gofpel-trumpet fhall be blown?

Anfw. 1. Becaufe none would have encouragement to come, if there were not a promife that they fhall come. Here is encouragement to all that hear the fund of this trumpet. It is true, may a foul fay, I know not if I be intended, but I fee the promise refpects the like of me the promise of drawing grace, refpects the like of me, that cannot come of myfelf; the promise of pardon refpects thefe that are guilty; the promife of cleanfing, refpects thefe that are filthy; the promise of taking away the ftony heart, refpects thefe that have a hard, ftupid heart. Now, this is my cafe; and therefore, here is a door of hope; here is fome encouragement for me to come to him, and wait upon him.And as none would have encouragement if it were not fo: fo all may have encouragement here: the door of hope is open.

2. He hath promised they fhall come, because as none would have encouragement to come, fo none would

have grace to come, if it were not promised; and if it were not by virtue of the promise made in Jefus Chrift; for, it is grace coming out of the promife, that is turned to grace in the heart. Then, indeed, the foul comes, when the grace that lies in the promife is turned to grace in the heart, and wrought there by the means of the promife. It is by virtue of the great and precious promife we are made partakers of the divine nature, and of the Spirit of faith; the promife being pleas and arguments for faith, and for the prayer of faith, faying, Lord, haft thou not fo and fo faid to fuch as I am; and will thou not do as thou haft faid: Haft thou not. faid, That Solomon fhall reign, that grace fhall reign? and wilt thou fuffer fin to reign? And the promife being the pipe and channel for the communication of grace, the conduit from Chrift to us, "All the promifes being Yea and Amen in Chrift, and the conduit-pipe reaching from the heart of Chrift to the mouth of faith, we fuck in his fulness. As the law begets terror, fo the promise begets faith; both by the freeness of it to the moft unworthy, and the fulness of it, being a plaifter as big, as the fore, and exactly anfwering to its want; and by the efficacy of it, through the fecret working of the Spirit, difcovering this fulness and freeness of divine grace, and drawing the heart towards this promifing God.

3. He hath promifed they fhall come, that thus he may fecure his own glory, which he defigns to fhew forth in his way. His great defign, in faving any poor perishing finner, is the glory of his name, and the honour of all his perfections: "Sing, O heavens; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Ifrael," Ifa. xliv. 23. He defigns, by redeeming them, to glorify himself; and that he may fhew forth his perfections, and they may fhew forth his praife: "This people have I formed for myfelf, they fhall fhew forth my praife," Ifa. xlii. 21. He thus fhews forth the glory of his wifdom, power, holiness, juftice, mercy, and truth; and therefore he hath promifed they fhall come and this, with all the other promifes of God, are Yea and Amen in Chrift, to the glory of God, a Cor, i. 20.

4. He hath promifed they fhall come by faith to him, that their falvation may be fure; "Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promife might be fare to all the feed," Rom. iv. 16. As God's word, Let it be, brought the world into a being; fo his fball be, is the caufe of what comes to pafs in the new creation. His faying, They shall come, is the cause of their coming, otherwife they would never come. He hath declared his will in this world, concerning their coming to him for life and falvation; and by his will they are fanctified, and faved through the offering of the body of Jefus Chrift once for all, Heb. x. 10. And what can be furer than the will of God, and that God will have his will?" He worketh all things after the counfel of his own will," Eph. i. 11.

V. The Fifth Head I propofed was, To fpeak a little of the end for which they fhall come, namely, To wor fhip the Lord in the boly mount at ferufalem. To fpeak now of divine worship at any length, is what I cannot propofe; there are only four things concerning it, that, I think, the words here lead me to, namely, here is the nature, the object, the manner, and the fpring of worship.

1. The nature of it, imported in the name worship. "To worship, is to give any one the honour due unto "him; fo to worship God, is to render that honour "and homage that is due to him, Pfalm xxix. 2.". Now, the worship of God is twofold, internal and external.—Internal worship, is to love God, to fear him, to believe and truft in him; thefe are acts of inward worship, and the fum of that honour we are required to give to God in the first command.-External worfhip, is the ferving of God according to his own ordinances and inflitutions, which is the fum of the second command, comprehending all the feveral ways wherein he will be honoured and ferved, fuch as, prayer, praise, &c. Both thefe must go together: internal worship pleaseth God beft: external worship honoureth him moft, and fetteth forth his glory in the world. Hence the temple was called, The place where God put

bis name, i. e. his worship; by which God is known, as a man is by his name. "They that worship God, muft worship him in fpirit and in truth:" in Spirit, that is, with inward love, fear, reverence, and uprightnefs; in truth, that is, according to the true rule of his word. The former refpects the inward power, and the latter the outward rule; the former ftrikes at hypocrify, and the latter at idolatry; the one oppofes loofenefs of our hearts in worship, and the other oppofes the inventions of our heads.

2. The object of worship is the LORD; They shall worship the Lord. Hence we read, Matth. iv. 18. "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve." To me it would feem, that by the Lord here, in the text, we are to understand the Lord and Saviour CHRIST, because I fee no difference made between the object of faith here expreffed by coming, and the object of homage here expreffed by worship; They fhall come, and shall worship the Lord. However this be, it is God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, that is the object of religious worship; and the Unity must be worshipped in Trinity, and the Trinity in Unity: and, when we direct our worship to any one perfon, we must include the reft in the fame worship; and we are to conceive of him as he hath manifefted himfelf to us in his word. If we worship God out of a Trinity, as the Turks; or God out of Chrift, as the Jews; we worship not the true God, but an idol.

3. The manner of worship, and the acceptable way thereof, is here pointed out: They shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerufalem; that is, to worship him in the beauty of holinefs, Pfalm xxix. 2. i. e. In his holy temple, or, in his beautiful fanctuary: in a way honourable to him, which can only be in and through Jefus Christ.

Now, for the further understanding of this, you would confider, that Jerufalem of old was the place of worship, "Whither the tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord to the teftimony of Ifrael," Pfalm cxxii. 3, 4. But now, under the New-Teftament difpenfation, fuch: is the great goodness of God to us, he doth not now

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