was smitten, and died before the Lord, for but an unadvised touching of the ark, when the men forsook it (1 Chron 13:9, 10). (4.) Ananias and Sapphira his wife, for telling a lie in the church, when they were before God, were both stricken dead upon the place before them all, because they wanted the fear and dread of God’s majesty, name, and service, when they came before him (Acts 5). This therefore should teach us to conclude, that, next to God’s nature and name, his service, his instituted worship,
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