to digest it^" But to those who have ears to hear, it is well to speak of these things, as our Lord and his Apostles con- versed of them in the way to Emniaus. Then will your hearts often burn within you ; and your own souls, as well as those of your Brethren, be edified in faith and love.]
s 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. Heb. v. 12—14.
Ps. xxvi. 8. Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place ivhere thine honour divelleth.
BETWEEN the people of God and the men of this world there is a much broader line of distinction than is generally imagined. In the performance of out- ward duties there may be but little difference : but in their motives and principles they are as far asunder as heaven and earth, yea, I had almost said, as heaven and hell. They have altogether a different taste ; the one affecting heavenly things as their most delightful occupation ; whilst the other follow them rather by constraint, and feel themselves most in their element when they are engaged in worldly company and in carnal pursuits. The faithful servant of God enjoys the testimony of his own conscience, that he has no real delight in any thing but in doing God's will, and in enjoying his presence. David, in this respect, may serve as a glass, wherein every real saint may discern his own image. He could appeal to God that he had found no pleasure in worldly company and worldly pursuits ; but that his delight had been altogether in communion with his God, and in the ordinances of his graced
In order to make a suitable improvement of the assertion before us, I will shew,
I. The reasons which he had for so loving the house of God- To give a full account of them would be impos- sible. It may suffice to specify a few of those which operated with greater force upon his mind.
a ver. 2 — 5.