Burroughs quotes "Let us tremble. The Lord is quick towards some and He is patient towards others, but do not presume on Him because He is patient to others. He may take you in the very first act of your sin and be quick with you" (Pg. 22). With this statement, I am paused to stop and wonder that sort of natural irreverence that can take place in a mans soul towards God, and I believe that is what Burroughs seems to be striking at in a sense. "Let us tremble", and should we not? For Paul says to work out our salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12). But in who's sight are we working out this salvation in our daily acts of worship? It seems as though Burroughs brings to light this contrast; to worship God in any other way than out of a purified fear and awe to revere Him is simply sin at it's finest. For somewhere down the line, as Burroughs points out, we have become quick to "presume on Him" not just due to how he works with others but also in those things of which he has not given us a warrant for. "So when any creature is raised in a religious way above what it has in it by nature, if I do not have Scripture to warrant me, I am therein superstitious" (Pg. 11).
Such things as, how we are to revere Him, should be held up to such a high importance in our heart, for when they are not, we worship God according to our own irreverent wills by nature. Such acts of disobedience towards God and His Word can, as Burroughs points out, cause serious consequences for an individual - (Leviticus 10) and therefore should cause us to re-evaluate the way we scripturally present ourselves before God corporately but also privately as well.
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