"this people, says he, draw nigh to me, they honour me with their lips: while their hearts are far from me.

Jesus answered, to such hypocrites as you may well be applied those words of the prophet Esaias, "this people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

in the law it is written, " with men of other tongues and other lips, will I speak unto this people: and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord."

Let our sacrifice then, which we are to offer to God by Jesus Christ, be that of incessant praises, the offering of our lips, which celebrate his name: