...1'sal. xlvii. 7. For God is the king of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. Eccl. v. 1. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God,...be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice rf fools: for they consider not that they do evil. Ver. 2. Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not...

...am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen. I•Vcl 5. 1. Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the saerifiee of fools ; for they eonsider not that they do (m) Psal. 138. 2. I will worship toward thy...

...brethren, by urging a serious attention to the subject now laid before you. " Kcep thy foot when thou gocst to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools," is the voice of Jehovah himself, directing his worshippers. Shall we regard it as such ? Shall we set...

...be gathered from every discourse you hear. Comply with the kind advice of Solomon, " keep thy feet when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools." 2. Meditate on what you hear. This is every way important after hearing...

...regard of this British Solomon, in the following words, "Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God ; for...thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few*." A sense of the omnipresence, power, wisdom, and majesty of the superintending mind, would have restrained...

...regard of this British Solomon, in the following words, " Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter any thing before God ; for...heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be fewa." A sense of the omnipresence, power, wisdom, and majesty of the superintending mind, would have...

...it an exertion. — " Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thiao heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few." This is the caution of the wise man — and from it we learn that our petitions should be carefully...

...infinite depths of his unsearchable counsels? Thus Solomon's advice may be well adapted to this case, Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart...thou upon earth ; therefore let thy words be few, I Kings viii. 2T. We are not to think that we may say what we please, or be rash and inconsiderate...

...man, " When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee ;" and again, " Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God,...fools ; for they consider not that they do evil." Levity and carelessness ill become a guest at a King's table. His eye, like a flame of fire, pierces...

...disapprobatioa— for he was a stranger to fear — be very soon after addressed them in these words—" Keep " thy foot when thou goest to the House of God,..." fools, for they consider not that they do evil." No sooner was the text pronounced than the Church was in an uproar; but silence being obtained by the...