The sins of our Religious duties corrected by Christ, and then presented to God the Father. [ 1883]
AS a Child that is willing to present his Father with something or other that might please him, as a Poesie or Nosegay, goes into the Garden, and there for want of judgment gathers sweet smelling Flowers, and noysome stink∣ing weeds together; but coming to his Mother, she picks out the weeds,* 1.1 and thus it is, that whether we pray unto God, or hear God speak unto us in his Word, or are otherwise employed in the performance of any Religious action,* 1.2 Christ comes and picks out the weeds, takes away the iniquity of our holy things, observes what evil, or failing there is in duty, and draws it out, and so presents nothing but flowers, nothing but what is pleasing and acceptable to God his Fa∣ther.* 1.3