ungodly men ' and from all hateful and polluting
passions m And in us must be offered up continually
the sacrifices of prayer and praise" ; from which " God will smell a sweet odour," and by which he will eternally be glorified. Surely " holiness becomes God's house for ever;" and " this is the law of the house," that every part of it, and its very precincts, even to " its utmost limits, should be holy0." Labour then for this. Consider "what manner of persons ye ought to be in all holy conversation and god- liness:" and, as every vessel of the sanctuary was holy, so let your every action, your every word, your every thought, be such as becometh your high calling and your heavenly des- tination.]
i 2 Cor. vi. 16, 17. m 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17.
n 1 Pet. ii. 4, 5. ° Ezek. xliii. 12.
See Sermons on 1 Tim. i. 11. where it forms the second
Eph. iii. 10. To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold wisdom of God.
CHRISTIANITY is altogether a deep stupendous mystery ; such as could never have entered into the mind of man ; such as never could have been devised by the highest archangel in heaven. Even subor- dinate parts of it, such as, the calling of the Gentiles, and the uniting of them in one Church with the Jewish people, are spoken of under this character, even as a " mystery, which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy Apostles and Prophets by the Spirit; even that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel." Indeed, so mysterious was this particular appointment in the eyes of the