We may be truly said to worship God though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship him, if we lack sincerity; a statue upon a tomb, with eyes and hands lifted up, offers as good and true a service; it lacks only a voice, the gestures and postures are the same; nay, the service is better; it is not a mockery; it represents all that it can be framed to; but to worship without our spirits is a presenting God with a picture, an echo, voice and nothing else; a compliment; a mere lie; a ‘compassing him about with lies.’ Without the heart the tongue is a liar.
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He is a carnal worshipper that gives God but a piece of his heart, as well as he that denies him the whole of it; that has some thoughts pitched upon God in worship, and as many willingly upon the world. David sought God, no with a moiety of his heart, but with his ‘whole heart;’ with his entire frame; he brought not half his heart, and left the other in the possession of another master.
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