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MEn put on clean linnen, their best cloths, and how often do they look in a glasse,* 1.1 to see that all be handsome, before they show themselves in the Church to their neighbours; and it is hoped, that they which will not come slovenly before their neighbours, will not appear sordidly before the Lord of Heaven and Earth; and withall remember, that that God that approveth this outward decency,
requireth the inward much more▪ He will have us lift up to him, not onely clean, but pure hands also. A neat outside, and a slovenly inside, is like a painted Sepulchre, full of dead mens bones. And it is to be feared, that most of our Churches in the time of Gods service, are full of such Tombs. There are a generation that are clean in their own eyes,* 1.2 but are not washed from their filthinesse.
B. Lakes Ser. on Exod. 19.
Prov. 30.