REFLECTION I.

What further Remarks fhall we make now, at laft, upon this Doctrine, and this Difcourfe? Surely they teach us to make a severe Reflection upon ourselves and our Conduct if we find no Defire to dwell in the House of God, no Breathings of Soul after the Fellowflip of Saints, and the fpecial Ordinances of the Church of Chrift. Either we labor under fome Mistake, fome Ignorance of Duty; or we are under the Power of fome present Temptation; or else our fancied Approaches to God are but Deceits and Delufions. Obferve my Words, I cannot fay this is the Cafe of all that are not joined to the Disciples, and added to the vifible Church; but this must be the Cafe of all that have no Defires of it. They that have no Inclination to get nearer to God than they are, have a juft Reason to think they were never brought near him.

REFLECTION II.

There are furely fome fenfible Defects or Corruptions in that Church, or there is a Decay of Religion in its Members, where ChurchFellowship is not fill efteemed a Pleasure and a Privilege. Where holy Communion is an infipid and taftlefs Thing, there must

be fome Degrees of Diftance and Estrangement between God and his People; either God is in fome Measure withdrawn from that Church, where Saints delight not in their publick Affemblies and Ordinances, or he is withdrawn from our Souls, if we take not Delight therein; for where God dwells among his Saints, Pleasure will dwell too. It is the Prefence of God makes Heaven, where Pleafures are grown up to their full Perfection.

Let us afk our Souls, whether we are not decaying Chriftians? Did we not use to come up to the House of God with Joy, and worship together with Delight? And that perhaps in Times of Difficulty too, as well as in Days of greater Liberty? What a bleffed Frame of Spirit was David in, Pfal. xlii. 4? And furely we have felt the fame facred Pleasure too, when we went up, as it were, in Multitudes to the House of God, with the Voice of Joy and Praife. Is it thus with us at prefent? Or have we loft the Senfe and Savour of those Days? Where's that holy Defire, that impatient Longing and Thirfting after God, which once appeared among us? Our Dwelling in the House of the Lord, has perhaps made the good Things of his House familiar, common and contemptible. O let us strive and labour, and pray for recovering Grace.

Decays

Decays will grow upon us, and separate us farther from God, and from the delightful Sense of his Favour, unless we are watchful, and repent and renew our first Love.

THE END.

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CATALOGUE

Of the WRITINGS of the Rev.

Dr. ISAAC WATT S.

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ERMONS on various Subjects, Divine and Moral: With a facred Hymn fuited to each Subject. Defigned for the Ufe of Chriftian Families, as well as for the Hours of devout Retirement. In two Volumes. The Sixth Edition.

II. A Guide to Prayer: Or, a free and rational Account of the Gift, Grace, and Spirit of Prayer; with plain Directions how every Christian may attain them. The Eighth Edition, 12mo.

III. The Chriftian Doctrine of the Trinity: Or, Father, Son and Spirit three Perfons and one

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God, afferted and proved; with their Divine Rights and Honours vindicated by plain Evidence of Scripture, without the Aid or Incumbrance of human Schemes. Written chiefly for the Ufe of private Christians, 12mo.

IV. Seven Differtations relating to the Chriftian Doctrine of the Trinity. In two Parts, 12mo.

V. Death and Heaven: Or, the laft Enemy conquered, and feparate Spirits made perfect: Attempted in two Funeral Discourses, in Memory of Sir John Hartopp, Bart. and his Lady, deceased. The Fourth Edition, 12mo. with the Preface to the German Translation.

VI. A Defence against the Temptations to SelfMurder; wherein the criminal Nature and Guilt of it are displayed: Together with fome Reflections on Excefs in ftrong Liquors, Duelling, and other Practices akin to this heinous Sin,

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VII. A Sermon on the Reformation of Manners.

VIII. A Caveat against Infidelity: Or, the Danger of Apoftacy from the Chriftian Faith. With an Anfwer to fome Queries concerning the Salvation of the Heathens, and the Hope of the Modern Deifts, upon their Pretences to Sincerity, 8vo.

IX. A Sermon preached on Occafion of the Death of our late Sovereign George I. and the

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