Hence (though _David_ mist of the _Lords Order_ in carrying of the _Lords Ark_, and afterwards he mist in his _thoughts_ about the building of _God_ an _house_ and _Temple_: Yet in both he discovered his holy strong _affection_, to _Gods_ publike _honour_, and _worship_. The very same which afterward the Prophet _Jeremy_, and _Daniel_ declared in their bitter _Lamentations_, for the _Ruine_ of _Gods_ house. And both _Daniel_ and _Zacharie_, and _Haggie_, mightily declare this _affection_ for the _rebuilding_, and setting up again this _Temple_ and _worship_ of _God_, and what they prophesied, that both _Ezra_ and _Nehemiah_, and afterward _Jehoshua_ and _Zerubabel_ zealously performed and executed. [Sidenote: True Christians affection to Christ Jesus in his visible worship.] Hence it is that in the heavenly _Love Song_, the _love_ of _Christians_ to _Christ Jesus_ in his _ordinances_ is most elegantly set forth by a _similitude_ taken from the _strong affection_ of _married_ persons: I am, saith the _Spouse, sick_ of _love_, and O ye daughters of _Jerusalem_ tell _Christ Jesus_ so: If I finde him without I will _kisse_ him openly in the _streets_, and will not be ashamed: True heavenly _affection_ (like _marriage love_) at first kindles from some private _sparks_, to an open flame of publick _profession_, without shame before all men. _Obj._ May not _Hypocrites_ (as _Saul_ in slaying the _Gibeonites_, and _Jehu_ in slaying the _Baalites_) discover strong _affection_ and _zeal_ to the _Lord_ and his _worship_, and consequently in these times to Christ _Jesus_ and his holy _kingdom_? I answer: _Hypocrites_ and _counterfeits_ in their profession of _love_ to _Gods_ publick worship ever run upon one of these two _Rocks_. For, First, either they set up, and maintain, and fight for a _fancie_, a _counterfeit_, a false _Christ_, according to the _prophesie_ of the Lord _Jesus_, that many (that is, _thousands_ and _multitudes_ of people) should so use his _name_, that is, with a willing ignorance and delusion. Or 2ly, if it be the true _worship_ of the true _God_ according to the _appointment_ of _Christ Jesus_, yet ever in two things the sincere _wife_ (the true love of _Christ Jesus_) out-goes the _whore_ and _counterfeit_. First, the true _wife_ contents not herself with the bare _exercise_, _ordinance_ or _administration_ (as the _hypocrites_ do) but in all is restless to enjoy the _Lord_ himself: For as the _ordinance_ is _spirituall_, and heavenly; so longs the true _beleever_ for a _spirituall_ and heavenly _communion_ with the _Lord_ himself in it, that he may become one _spirit_ with him more and more in all these outward and _subordinate means_ and _administrations_. Hence it pleaseth the _Spirit_ of _God_ to resemble his _worship_ to the _marriage bed_, which satisfies not the heavenly _Spouse_, when the _Husband Christ Jesus_, is not spiritually embraced therein, but absent.