Thirdly and Lastly, That a Religious Adoration and Worship is not to be given to any Creature, (no, not to the Angels or Archangels themselves) but only to the Creator of all things (the Great GOD of Heaven and Earth,) who alone has a Right thereto.

Having gone thro' those Points, and fully spoke to them in general, I then consider'd in particular these Two following, viz.

I. What is meant by the word [WORSHIP] us'd by our Saviour in the Text.

II. What the WORSHIPERS of GOD must be.

Upon these I enlarg'd; and then in my Application I endeavour'd these three Things, viz.

1. To enforce upon my Auditory, the absolute Necessity of Holy and Religious Living among the Professors of Christianity.

2. To urge the Practice of this Duty, because by it we may become, and will be accounted, true Worshipers, and arrive to a sort of Likeness and Conformity to GOD himself.

3. To win them to the Love and strict Performance of this, by laying before them the moving Considerations of GOD's Good-will, tender Care, compassionate Love, and Mercy to us his undeserving Creatures.

Which having done, I concluded all, for the present, with a particular Exhortation to the Condemn'd; desiring them seriously and impartially to examine themselves, and see, " How defective they had been " in their Duty to GOD, to their Neighbour, and to their own Souls: " Who, for want of having the Fear of GOD before their Eyes, had " hitherto (as I might well suppose) but little regard to His Sacred " Word, and had not paid the Reverence and Worship due to Him inwardly in their Hearts; as it plainly appear'd they had most presumptuously dishonour'd Him outwardly in their Actions, by daring to " do what He has strictly forbidden, and leave undone what He has " expresly commanded, for all which they must expect to be call'd to " a severe Account, unless they took care to prevent it by a thorough " Repentance of their Sins of Omission and Commission, before the short " Time they had now to live, was spent, and their irreversible Judgment past.

With these and the like weighty Considerations, which I offer'd to them, I endeavour'd to stir up their Hearts to an earnest Application to that good GOD, whom they had thus miserably offended; " That of " His great Mercy He would please to take pity of their poor immortal " Souls, and retrieve them from the Danger they were in of being lost " for ever; earnestly imploring His powerful Assisting Grace, that by " it they might truly Believe, sincerely Repent; and so, be eternally " Saved.

To all which publick Exhortations they seem'd to be very attentive, as they also were to my private Admonitions, when I examin'd 'em by themselves about their former Lives, present Dispositions, and Hopes of a future State. Concerning which they gave me the respective