HAving in a former, Treatise handled the Doctrine of holy walking, and shewed the excellency and necessity of it, and given you Marks and Motives to perswade you to it, and Directions in it, and answered the Objections that are made against it; I shall come now to treat of it in particular, and shew you how to demean your selves towards God, in the several parts of his Worship, wherein consists the main, though not the whole of holy walking: And in every part of Gods worship, I shall give you Directions for the right perform∣ance. But Reader, wilt thou resolve to follow those Directions? For otherwise 'tis in vain for me to write, or thee to read, it will but make thee sin with a Candle in thy hand, What good will Page  2 Meat do if not eaten and digested? Or Physick do if not taken? Or a Plaister if not applyed? So what good will Directions do, if not followed? It is not enough to read thy duty, but thou must do it, nay 'tis not enough to do it, but thou must do it well: Those that worship God, must worship him in Spirit and in Truth, 'tis not a little lip la∣bour, or knee service will serve his turn without the Heart, and the Heart rightly qualified, he re∣gards it not, he will have none of it, for there is none holy as the Lord, 1 Sam, 22. And the Lord ad∣mits of none into his service that are not holy, Lev. 10.3. I will be sanctifyed by those that draw near to me, Lev. 20.7. Be ye holy, for I am holy, He is a living God, and requires living Sacrifice, and will not take up with a dead heart: There must be a principle of life in thee, or thou art nor fit to come into his presence, for he is a consuming fire unto his Enemies, there must be Regeneration, or there can be no Salvation, John 3.5. And without faith 'tis impossible to please him. Heb. 11.6. 'tis not e∣nough to worship him, but it must be in sincerity and truth, Josh. 24.14 What is thy Resolution, wilt thou worship him or wilt thou not? there are few in plain words will deny it, but in actions they do, either they worship him not at all, or give him that he requires not, or do it in a manner he re∣gards not: They are like the Son that said to his Father, I go Sir, but went not, Mat. 21.30. But shall we take it for granted that thou wilt worship him? but wilt thou do it in truth and sincerity? o∣therwise God will not regard it. I fear we may say of many, as Joshua of Israel Josh. 24.19. You cannot serve the Lord, for he is an holy God, but is it your Resolution as theirs was in the verses fol∣lowing, Page  3 Nay, but we will serve the Lord, and that you will choose the Lord to serve him, consider what you do, you must take him to be your God, and be willing to have your Souls cleansed from all your sins, and must be willing to take the Lord Jesus Christ as he is offered in the Gospel, to be your Lord and Husband, and be as willing to be ruled by him, as saved by him, and must resolve to obey his Laws, and do his will, and live in the per∣formance of those spiritual duties he requires at at thy hand. Yea, thou must have a setled Reso∣lution to cleave to Christ, and obey him even in the most despised, disgraceful, dangerous, difficult and costly part of duty: Though it be to the loss of thy worldly enjoyments, yea, and life it self: I know many would pick of choose their duties, this they would do, but that they would not; they scum of the Fat and sweet of duty, but leave that which is difficult, or dangerous, but God will have no such Servants: obey him thou must, though thy Father, Mother, and all thy Friends become thine Enemies upon the account; yea, in some cases thou must not only leave, but hate Father and Mother, &c. yea, thy own life for his sake yea, though thou loose thy credit and esteem in the World, and be made a scorn and a reproach for his sake; though thou loose thy pleasure, and never see merry day whilst thou livest; though it endanger thy Estate, and bring thee to Poverty; though thou loose thy Liberty, and be cast into a Prison; yea, though thou loose thy life, and be brought to a Stake to suffer; yea, though thou seest few or none walk that same way with thee: Noah must obey God, though the whole World disobey him; yea, thou must obey him, though his commands be never Page  4 so contrary to thy carnal interest, or never so oppo∣site to flesh and blood, and though they are never so hard or difficult, or dangerous, or costly, before ever thou take upon thee the profession of Religi∣on, sit down first and reckon the charges, lest like many thou begin to build, and be unable to finish it; and not like many, put their hands to the Plow, and then look back: or like the stony ground when persecution ariseth, presently are offended: re∣solve to give him thy heart with thy hand, or he will have none of thee, he knows the heart, and trie the reins, and thou canst not deceive him with a dissembling shew, when Nadab and Abihu offered strange fire, he slew them. When Ananias and Saphira played the Hypocrite, he struck them dead. Cleanse thy heart therefore if thou wilt serve him, and serve him thou must, or do worse: Thou canst never err on that hand, in ser∣ving him too well; he deserves more and better than thou canst give him, his wages will be be∣yond thy work: now that I may prevail with thee to serve God, take these following Motives.