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68 In the worship of God, there are some things that are matify.g? to the pride of the heart & to man's natural love to sin & the vanities of the World & also to that good opinion of merit & worthyness which man is disposed to entertain of himself. Acceptable worship therefore implies a humble, teachable & resigned spirit willing to know God's Will & to do it.

 To worship him acceptably, it is necessary that we give up & renounce all sinful lusts as all anger, pride, censoriousness, worldlymindedness & that the heart be pure & sincere & kept unspothd? from the world, indulging in or allowing of no sinful desire or suffering the heart to harbor unclean lusts. Ob?ro.g? that divine direction keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life. To worship God acceptably we must worship him in Way of grace, revealed in the gospels, by which are assured of acceptance only in the name & thro' merits of J.X. - The plan of our salvation without merit in as & only thro' the perfect righteousns of the Redeemer of Men, is the only way in which we may approach a holy & justly offended Deity with acceptance. J.X. is the way, the truth & the life & there is no coming to the father but by him. 
  1.  The first heart hbl.g? condition of our acceptance with God, is then a sincere confession to God, that we are unworthy. That of ourselves we have no merit or fitness to entitle us to his favorable regard. That we are fallen sinners & guilty offenders against his holy law. That we are transgressors of that perfect moral Law, that demands constant sincere & universal Obedience, that cannot allow of a single transgression, that makes no allowance