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 follomng Dedication,', hot^ originally iinifd » 
 particular Set of People, is «,» «;, J .. Ani, ' 
 ^m,^ this little IVork is recommended, as ' ' 
 ^much Admonition, as the Poor in gener 
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* To 
 All the SETTLERS and IN- 
 HABITANTS of the Town- 
 fliip of Lunenburg in Nova-Sco- 
 tia ; and efpeclally the POOR, 
 whether bound or free. 
 
 Dearly beloved Brethren in our LORD 
 JESUS '"^'^ 
 
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 TO Touy I ^ dedicate this little 
 Bo^k, which I have written for 
 ' Y<>ur Vk and Inftrudion. I know 
 •^ titt being obliged to work hard, you 
 cannot fpend much Time in reading 
 andftudy: there/ore, I have endea- 
 voured to keep within a fmall Com- 
 pafs ; fo that by reading a few Pages 
 every Sunday, you may foon under- 
 ftand the whole of Chriftian dodrine 
 and Chriftian duty, as far as it is ne- 
 ceffary in your Station : for as you 
 |ave neither fo much leifure, nor fo 
 
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 much opportunity as the rich, to ftu- 
 dy Religion, it is not required that 
 you fliould have fo much Knowledge. 
 However, that little which is offered 
 you, it is your Duty to purfuc ; and 
 the leaft you have to do to qualify 
 yourfelves for the Kingdom of Heaven, 
 the greater will be, both your Crime 
 and Puniftinient, if you negleft it. 
 Neither ought you to be fatisfied with 
 reading over this little Book, which 
 will foon be done : You muft efpecial- 
 ly read conftahtly and frequently the 
 Holy Scriptures, and efpecially the 
 new Teftament ; for therein the whole 
 Gospel, (that is, God's good Tid- 
 ings) is contained. 
 
 But what are thefe good Tidings of 
 GOD ? What {hould they be I But 
 the means and aflurancc of Salvation, 
 to thofe who repent of their former 
 Sins, and lead a fobcr, righteous and 
 godly Life, believing in God and his 
 
 Son 
 
 
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 Son Jcfus Chrift, and keeping hit 
 Commandments. 
 
 Thefegood Tidings of God, which 
 wc call The Go/pel of Chriji, I have 
 been fent to preach unto you ; and 
 my greateft and utmoft wifli, is to be 
 fuccefsful in leading you into the path 
 of Salvation. 
 
 This is the reafon why I have got 
 this little Book printed, at a very great 
 ex pence, which I am hardly able to 
 bear : but notwithftanding, I bear it 
 with pleafure, in hopes that it {hall 
 not be entirely bellowed in vain ; and 
 if thereby I can be made an inftru- 
 ment in the hand of God to reclaim 
 any Sinner from his evil courfe, and 
 from perdition, then I fhall account 
 myfelf repaid million fold. 
 
 I muft entreat thok among- you, 
 who are not of the fame Church with 
 mc, not to think, that this Book is 
 not for them, as well as for thofe of 
 
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 the Church of England. It is wrote 
 for all Chnftians, whether Lutherians, 
 Calvinifts, or of our own Church : 
 and ai all thofc are Chriftians and Prol 
 teftants, their Religion is the fame, 
 altho' they differ in the manner of 
 worfliip ; which God, nor Chrift, nor 
 the Apoftles, never fettled othcrwife, 
 than to require it to be in Spirit and 
 Truth ; leaving it to every Nation 
 to determine the manner, as moft 
 agreeable to their fcnfc of religious 
 worfliip. 
 
 Therefore I recommend it to both 
 Lutherians and Calvinifts, as well as 
 to thofe of the Church of England, 
 to take this little book into confide- 
 ration ; and their own Minifters will 
 tell them> that it contains nothing but 
 what is right and true ; nothing but 
 what is grounded upon Scripture, as 
 any one may fee by the many Paflages 
 which I have quoted in fupport of 
 
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 what I have fai^l : which paflagcs you 
 will know by their being printed in a 
 different type with the reft (/>; /^/> 
 ^nanner.) And by the book, chapter 
 ^nd verfe, which I have fet down every 
 time, either before or after fuch paf- 
 fagcs, as the fliape of my difcourfe 
 
 permitted. 
 
 However, I do not pretend to have 
 written fo fully that nothing need be 
 added. Many things I have left be- 
 hind, which either other minifters or 
 myfelf muft tell you of, in the courfe 
 of our preaching : But I think that I 
 have not omitted any of the principal 
 points ; and that from what I have 
 written, all the reft may be deduded. 
 
 Although I have made this little 
 book chiefly for the Ufc of the poor, 
 the rich are wcllcomc to make their 
 profit by it, fo far ; but they muft 
 confider that this is for them a begin- 
 ning ot inftrudion only, to lead them 
 
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 in further refearchcs ofreligious know- 
 ledge. 
 
 May the great God of heaven and 
 earth blefs you all, in foul, body, fa- 
 mily and eftate I May he pour down 
 his bleffings upon thefe Endeavours 
 of mine to bring you to falvation, and 
 render them fruitful ! May the Lord 
 of a// power and mighty who is the 
 Author and Giver ■:/ all good things, 
 graft in your hearts the love of his 
 name, increafe in you true religion, 
 murijh you with all goodnefs, and of 
 his great mercy keep, you in the fame, 
 through Jefus Chrift our Lord, Amen. 
 
 I am with true Chriftian love, 
 MOST Dear Brethren, 
 
 Your zealous Paftor and faith- 
 ful Servant for Jksos fake, 
 
 PETER DELAROCHE, 
 
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 ME N are but for a fhort time In this world • 
 I need not fpend time and words in proof 
 of this Every one knows, that none of us is fm-e 
 to live four and twenty hours longer; nay for 
 aught we know to the contrary, we may be 'dead 
 in one mmute, or two. 
 
 ^ ^ter fkath comes judgment, as Scripture declares 
 m Heb. IX. 27. and in many other paOagea ; and 
 the iflue of judgment is this : The yfick^dfiallgo 
 into everlajling Punijhment j but the righteous into life 
 eternal, as our Saviourhimfelf faith in Math. XXV 
 
 Now the queftlon is -, whether men chufe to be 
 faved and go into eternal life ; or preferdamnation, 
 and chufe to go into everlafiing puniJJjment ? Let 
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 Inordcrtoamftyou:;.uis, as it Js my duty 
 to do, I will explain to you thefe things which 
 you arc to believe, thofe means whereby only you 
 w«n be faved and thofe conditions and duties 
 . which you muftobferve: And I will do it, with 
 theAmftanceof God, in a mnnner fhort, plain 
 andeafytobeunderftood, and followed in prac- 
 tice -for I well know, that being obliged to work 
 
 Wf^n'^^^^^'^l'*' you cannot fpare much 
 time for ftudy ; and therefore cannot read large 
 tra(!ls nor comprehend deep arguments. Nor 
 do€t God require fo much of you as of fuch as 
 have time to ftudy and to improve their know- 
 ledge and abilities. But tho' God's goodnefs re- 
 quires but Jittle from you ; yet that little is not 
 to be neglected becaufe \t is but Jittle : On the 
 contrary, the left it is, the more you arc obhged 
 to anfwer the obligation. R,ad therefore what 
 follows with attention ; and lay it to heart to fol- 
 low It in your lives and behaviour. 
 
 I fliall divide my matter in threi parts. In the 
 firft I will explain to you, thofe things which you 
 are to believe : In the fccond, I will fet before 
 you your religious duties ; and in the third, thole 
 of morality, which we may q^H the duties of a 
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 PART. I. 
 
 Of Go/pel DoBrine. 
 
 A LI- t\i2it which t'c oUr f 
 
 poor peopJe'\;\:ifeve K"- r*'^-y ''o'- 
 '" the Apoftles Creed ,v^^ u'- ^"^^^ contained 
 
 '5.= Belief: HereSiS" """"""^ -^^'ed 
 
 jM'eveinGod the Father\^- u, 
 •* ^^^x-w W earth ■ ^^^'ghty, Maker of 
 
 ^nd in Jefu, chrik his onl. C 
 
 Mary, SufienLrderlnr'''^\^r'' "f ">' f'TrZ 
 dead, andbune. , HedeZnd'A ^'^'"^ ^" '^""fid 
 
 becve„ Andfmith at th ,itttl "/ "^''"ded i„t» 
 therMmishty, Fro, hjcf^.f'j^ 'fGodthe Fa* 
 qMck and the dead. ^lejhallcome to judge the 
 
 I believe in thr U^i ^» „ 
 
 I/VX- ""' ^'fi'-'-'Smofthefj ^t' P'^Sivneft 
 'verlajiins, ^men. "^ '" ^'^^^ ^"d the Life 
 
 In this Creed th,r» • r 
 
 yo" muft underfta^d ?j;'° ""^r '>='" "gh^ly" 
 f o a" expianati on. '""• Therefore I proceed 
 
 VVe may divide tV^ ■ . 
 C^ecd in tliree parts I„^.1'"'T1 '"»««'• of tJiis 
 ^;%e the FA /her /?„ ?,! /''•'* XO". acfcnot- 
 nc,„the third the »(„ V ?~'??'^' ^''^ SON- 
 
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 FIRST Part of the Creed. 
 Ibeheve in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of 
 heaven and earth. '' 
 
 By tht^Q words we profefs to beh'eve, 
 
 ift. In God. Since it is the foundation and 
 
 ground work of aJl religion, that there is a God. 
 
 * WJiencc St. Paul draws this moral inference : 
 
 They whe have believed in God, mujl be carejul ^io 
 
 maintain good works, Titus III. g. 
 
 II. We profefs to believe in God only. This 
 ifl pofitively declared in feveral parts of Scripture 
 God himfeif fptaking by his Prophet Ifaiah XLIv! 
 8. fays, L there a God befides me? Tea, there is 
 none, I know n§t any. Jefus Chrift affirms the 
 fame, in one of his Prayers to God his Father 
 when he fays : This is life eternal, that men know 
 thee, the ONLI' true God. 
 
 in. We acknowledge God, as Father, both of 
 niankind, he being our Creator and Preferver ♦ 
 and alfo of our Lord Jefus Chrift. 
 
 IV. Wc acknowledge that God ; the only God ; 
 God the Father; is alfo the Almighty God : that 
 IS to fay, that he has power and ability to do who- 
 ever h« pleafes ; for, as the angle faid to th^ vir- 
 gmMary, with God nothing is impffible. Luke I. 
 27. and accordingly we acknowledge. 
 
 V. That he is the Maker of heaven and ^zrt\\, 
 and of all things vifible and invi/ible. This a!fl) 
 IS taught to us infcripture, which begins with tJiis 
 declaration : In the beginning God created the heaven 
 and the earth. Gen. I. i. The Prophet Jeremiah 
 alfo fays in Chap. XXXI I, i']. Ah Lord God ! be. 
 
 hold. 
 
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 Now, friends and brethren r 
 
 part of the creed you p7S/K"r '" ''>'» A^ft 
 tat her Almighty, lukTrofl '''''«''« '« God /4, 
 
 °|^ghf to ftiw the real;// r"""" """^ ""'*. you 
 piety, obedience and &°;^>'°."'- ^^"h, b/y^ur 
 your Creator vou olh?. ^ ^i"" Since he i. 
 
 yo"-- God, to'^oberhfm I T"^'^ }'"^ '"'ly « 
 fe>gn. and to love him « >^°"^'n«fter and fove- 
 by his almighty powTrh/""^^''^''^'- •• And Ctn'c 
 »"ght to truft em'^relv to th*r'-ri "" ">'"fc'». Tou 
 de"ce. and his gcodlfs td"'^ ""^ "^^'"p^ovT 
 very cautious nit to defe^ve h ^°" ""^ht to be 
 voke him to »nger bv vou?. "7''"''' «nd pro! 
 preme will. ^ ^^ ^"""^ "-anfgrcffion of his fu, 
 
 '«''^/4^«°Si''"'f'''' Creed. 
 
 ;J^'^7, Suffer J under Pontiu^'pjT °f "" ^'>.f'« 
 
 % ^^>-.> again from he tlT ^£^ - ^e third 
 b'aven, And%/th ontheltu\ "' ff^"'ded into 
 Father Almighty ■ FrL ,h v' ^""^ "f God the 
 "" 9^ni Jdtie 'dfad """"' '" ^"^^ ^^L tojudgl 
 
 iT^^L^^r P''°''^'' t° believe 
 I- That Jefuj ChrJft : , ''; e, 
 
 "•Jd that Jn Zr£"rd .n'" -'^ '^^ '"°» °f God 
 ^»h the Father ''' '^« « ^° '"^X. our God 
 
 !'• That the Son of r^A t 
 
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 ^ '^^ earth • hy 
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 eve fn God /^^ 
 
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 lith, by your 
 
 pmce he is 
 
 nim tnily at 
 
 ■er and fove- 
 
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 ^jj''"gs. you 
 or his provi- 
 
 ^"ght to be 
 
 ^» and pro4 
 
 on of his fu. 
 
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 "^as cnicijigd^ 
 "^'he third 
 fcended into 
 of God the 
 '^^^ to judge 
 
 » of God^ 
 our God 
 
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 Mary '^^ 
 
 
 by preaching the eofoel Jj^ ^lavciy of Sin, 
 %n lefn'iVh •P."''"""<;« °f Co charitable a de- 
 
 'nfirmiti^s'of h„.„a" nature '^Vn^ff'TV" *" '^= 
 vcrtv : That h^ wac « r , suffered even no- 
 
 brought befori P^atfthe?^! '' ''' ^'^'' -<i 
 f 1 he knew him to b nnoce^t ofT'' ' •^'"' "^ 
 'vered him to be put o death Tr."™'i.'*=- 
 h he was crucified; and thus died ^^ according. 
 ^>ns. and to feal with hi. ki ^ °, "P'"= °"'' 
 godly dodlrine which he h,d.°°'^ u'^" ''"'^ '"'^ 
 ?fter his death, hirbod; wa, bS ^ \"f '^.''' 
 .mmorta]foulrf.>W.rfLrXr"'"^' *'^'''= ^"^ 
 
 world thatl^ufcl^;/"'''''' ,'° '^''^ "«° th« 
 Ais death hid m\deSlT:tVfr^-''V''"'.""'^ '^^ 
 •nen, alfo to rewfrd't If f 4°" ° fo^^'"^^ 
 
 Ajd has giJet'^st b; 'r^t ^S '^V 
 Ability, as well as a pledL for .1,. ''^^ P°^- 
 
 o.ur own refurredlion *= "rtainty. of 
 
 f"sa5adt'°r'^'''r' *''«o«Lord Je- 
 
 there to en/oy in h f huf '°"' "'"' "? ^° ^'«-". 
 Pinefs whicY as ^'^ /"'"»"."«"••«. all the hap. 
 
 5.erehejw//'S .''?,'! '"""''1'°; and-that 
 
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 .fV'^^^^^^' . ^^^^ A^'w '^^«^^ he Jh^ll come on 
 theiajl day, to judge the quick and the dead. By 
 this wc acknowledge that there will be a day in 
 which we Jhall all give an account of our anions, 
 words and thoughts ; and in which we fhall be re^ 
 warded or punifhed, according as we fhall be 
 found to have done GOOD or EVIL : And that 
 our Lord Jefus Chrift is to be then, the judge of 
 an men. ** 
 
 From this fecond part of the creed you muft 
 draw th.s .nference. Since (ns St. John fays) 
 Godfo lov:d the world, that he gave hh only heJ. 
 teni,on that whoever believed in him Jhould noFpe- 
 » 'A John rir. ,6. You ought to believe in Je- 
 r /f'r" ^^ King David advife,, in Pfal. II. ^j. 
 K'js the for,, lejl he he angry. That is, you ouEht 
 to embrace theopportuuity he has offered to y!„ 
 to obtam falvatioh through the merits of his death 
 and fufferings : You ought to renounce all fm 
 
 ^tfr^ c'^^^: r^t'^fly- ""d godly i„ this prejent 
 ■world as fauh St. Paul to Titus II. ,2. Finally 
 fince Jefus Chrift is to><;^. the world in righuoli 
 « A as we read m the Aft. XVII. 3 , . and in many 
 
 the A^^ftf' ""I^'P'----^' y°» ought according tl 
 the Apoftle's advice to p«fs th, time of your foj^rZ 
 tng here, „ fear, i. Peter I. ,7. left by youf ^ 
 '<=nces. you draw condemnation upon you 
 
 THIRD Part of the Creed. 
 / beheve in the Holy Ghofl. 
 
 bet; r„7' • 7''?n' th«eby you acknowledge as 
 bemg God with the Father and the Son, 
 
 By 
 
 .'% 
 
».-v».«. ■- * *.ii m^ -miik^4i^^„ 
 
 /hall come on 
 dead. By 
 
 e a day, ia 
 
 our adtions, 
 ftiall be re. 
 
 we fhall be 
 And that 
 
 he judge of 
 
 I you muft 
 John fays) 
 f only begot- 
 ould not pe-> 
 ieve in Jc- 
 »fal. 11.12. 
 you ought 
 ed to you, 
 f his death 
 nee all fin, 
 this prejent 
 Finally, 
 f righteouf^ 
 id in many 
 wording to 
 urfojounu 
 youf of. 
 >u. 
 
 ' the blef. 
 wltdgt as 
 
 ^7 
 
 ( 17 ) 
 
 ^ ^y ^^^^^""^y ^^o^» you may underftand that 
 ^ fpint of God, whereby the fcriptures were di- 
 I vmcly infpired; and whereby true children of 
 
 God receive amilance, both to IieJp them in their 
 
 endeavours, and to comfort them in their afflic 
 
 tions. 
 
 • T^^^/f, Soo^ men who wrote the different books 
 k in the bible, fuch as Mofes, Samuel, David, and 
 all the Prophets and Apoftlcs of ChriO, did not 
 write only as they knew or as they thought : But 
 they wrote according as the fpiritof God diredled 
 tnem, St. Peter tells us that holy men of God fpah 
 as they were moved by the Holy Gbod, 2 Peter I 2 i 
 By that fame Spirit of God only, you can be 
 enabled to live foherly, righteoufly and godly in this 
 prefm 'world. Which is abfohiteiy necefTary for 
 laJvation., And if you arc truely defirous of liv. 
 ijjg jo you muft humbly and earneftly alk it of 
 Ood by prayer ; and he will furely lend you the 
 
 cour "" "" ^^"''^ ^"^ ^'''^ ^'°'' ^"^ ^''^P""'^ ^^"^ 
 
 Likcwife if you are fo willing to do that which 
 
 ct^ ^^!,f ^fPlea/urcs or enjoyments, the Holy 
 Oholt will adminifter to you all manner of corn- 
 tort, whenever you are pre/fed by forrow, pain^ 
 ^cknefs or any kind of adver/liry -, by putting you 
 in mind of God's goodncfs and love towards y^u, 
 and by filling you with the hopes and expc(5ba- ^ 
 
 m that which is to come. 
 
 B 
 
 J have 
 
 ii 
 
f IS ) 
 
 a 
 
 J liAvc now evnFo; j 
 Pf parts of the Se? ,^° y°" the three nn', • 
 f «,„ore, which ' ""=■■= '•eniain,'rP"'.'- 
 
 S'« '"ore. wh-^h J '^ "'^'•'^ rem ;,";", P"'>c?- 
 Jou prefer, .-,. .u. . •'^'"" '° y°« 
 
 believe in I r °^*"°t'ier. A I 7 l T*™'^'=« 
 ""do,; thee'"""''"'-' °f'/^' U .1/ ,'i°'"'"'ind- 
 
 "°t'ce^?hat oir s' '°"^''""d ofttrl^ ^'""'''■■ 
 ""■O- J //./ /"T'°'- '^•'W in Math Vrr ^°" ^'''^^ 
 
 j.f you b£/t'l * '^ ■» heaven \'t' '/" 
 % '■" the creed k'^; '"'^^ '"tholicChuJ^''^^""' 
 
 ^^^^^^ ^^^^ 
 
 ffirt S '^"^ '^« hVtr'« ^/ .^-^^^ i.. - 
 f'ueand good chrifliaL 'wh; ,^'1 "'«•■'" al 
 
 *• ^^":h, Ijuft„o^ 
 
 fiid. 
 
 '• 
 
iuUfc^g, 
 
 . .mAamii 
 
 ^^'■fc pn'nci- 
 IS a few arti- 
 P'''^^^i to you 
 
 ;^e creed to 
 ^^ communion 
 
 'f'in-e£lion oJ\ 
 
 »"ft under- 
 
 '^ chriftfans 
 
 s members 
 
 ^^o truly 
 
 command-- 
 'ic Church . 
 
 ' baptized 
 he Lord's 
 
 aii fuch, 
 ^ Church ; 
 you take • 
 
 21. iVb/ 
 
 ^ereforc 
 as you 
 
 ieavour 
 •ch, by 
 
 : ejfc 
 
 iviour, 
 
 ;an aii 
 
 tnow 
 
 raid. 
 
 .# 
 
 >iiVi 
 
 ( »9 ) 
 
 faid, arc members of the holy catholic church*, 
 iftd fecondly, that Communion (igniiies here, that 
 true love and fellowihip which reigns among all 
 good people, 'or iiiftance, I will fuppofe you to 
 be a right good chriftian, a true member of the 
 holy catholic church •, asfuch, you love in Chrifl: 
 and for Chrilt, all thofo men, among all nations, 
 who arc like you right good chriftians, and true 
 members of the holy catholic church, although 
 you don't know them \ and they love you likewife 
 in Chrift and for Chrifl:, although they don't know 
 you. This is what we call in the creed tht com- 
 munion of Saints and which you canuot with truth 
 fay, you believe, except you keep on that com* 
 munion by your love for your brethren. 
 
 ^y the For^ivennefs of Sins, which is neyt ac- 
 knowledged in the belief, you are to underftand ; 
 that in conlideration of the merit of our Saviour's 
 death and for his fake, God will forgive you your 
 part fins : Provided, you fincerely repent, and 
 truely amend your lives j for, without this, there 
 is no for^ivemfs of fms for you. 
 
 The nfurreUion if the body is a point which all 
 
 chriftians do profefs toxbelieve : For as St. Paul 
 
 fays in i Corint. XV, 13. 14. If there be no re- 
 
 furre^ion of the dead^ then is Chrifl not rifen : And 
 
 ifChrifi be not rifen^ then is our preMching vain^ And 
 
 your faith is alfo vain. In v. 20. 21. 22. he fays : 
 
 But now is Chrift rifen from the dead, and become t be 
 
 firfi fruits of them thatfept; for fine e by man cams 
 
 death, by man came alfo the refurre^itn of the death ; 
 
 for as in Adam all die, evenfo in Chrift f hall all be 
 
 made alive^ Therefore you may depend upon it, 
 
 B 2 ' th4t 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
 h 
 
fU ( 20 ) 
 
 \^^t as you cxnr^r ' 
 
 ^^'jd bodies /ffi ^ 
 
 ^''^ at the a/i Ir ^>^ ^^'^ Power n/'/'^^^ '>, Von. 
 ,°" ^^^e /,/> .*^ ^^ our Savl::;; co J'^^^'^^^r God 
 thn JiTe . . fiut then vo , n"" ^° ^i>e a<ra;„ 
 
 P'-ovc a ii^ '* '^^« ^'^fuLlf '^"^ fake c 'f •'' 
 
 'k're fl,,nb!„o Z"^f '''''■' to n T''' '^'^. S 
 
 * * 
 
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 1 . "s have r -v * 
 
 ^^^ch yo„ *I '^^^« yon u.;, . 
 
 I 
 
 lO 
 
 ^ 
 
 1 
 
'""'J^^ your 
 
 ''S^^y God 
 
 ^°^b may 
 'f ^^^r- hi] 
 
 A^^^ ac. 
 s fo be- 
 
 ^^^'^s and 
 
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 '0(i 'Will 
 
 ''yjhall 
 
 ^h and 
 
 J and 
 
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 ido, 
 lake 
 
 { 
 
 4 
 
 ( .M ) 
 
 this, I have by the way, hinted a many ofthoi"'^ 
 things which you arc to do, if you wifli fo be fa- 
 red : But now I fliall apply myfelf to fhcw you 
 more at large, what thefe things ?irc. 
 
 All your duties are either towards God, or to- 
 wards your fellow creatures, or refpecfi ing your- 
 felret. Therefore St. Paul fays, That the grace 
 of God vjhich brings falvatioH hath appeared to all 
 men. Teaching i/f, that denying ungodlinefs and 
 wordly lujlsy wc j7jould live foberly^ rigljteoufly^ and 
 godly in this prefcnt world. Titus II, ii. 12. To 
 live /■ her ly, means to obferve all thofe precepts of 
 the gofpel and all thofe duties refpedling ourfelves, 
 fuch as temperance, n.odcration, chartity, humi- 
 lity, patience and the like. To live righteoujly^ 
 is to obfcrve in regard of our fellow creatures, all 
 thofe duties of juftice, equity and charity, wliich 
 are prefcribed to ua: Kn^ to live godly ^ is to ful- 
 fil all our dutiei ot worfhip, reverence, love, and 
 obedience to God, which are required of ut j and 
 which are commonly called religious duties. I 
 will begin with fhewing you what are thefe ; and 
 then I ftiall proceed to tht duties refpeding both 
 our fellow creatures and ourfelves, which are ia 
 general called moral duties and moral virtues. 
 
 Jd 
 
 ^S^?k0^ •*• ^^f^^ 
 
 PART, IL 
 
■\ 
 
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 C 22 ; 
 PART Ij. 
 
 V religious Duties. 
 
 in Matt v"rV"^"'^'-ed u„to him ,. " '^•''^""on 
 ^ave eternal Ji/J^ / ^^^ ""^^ you. rf , 
 
 «» firft table, Ttt '" 'r ''"'J« ; «'h,-ch 
 ments were m; , ' ^''ereon tl,>» " ^^'•« 
 
 '"Mdments whi ^ °'^ ^'"e,, were .», r 
 
 -^ndm;„t "of Si fi''^ '^'^pCio?' ?,.r; P«- 
 
 ^hat vou ,^„ . , *'■'* table r n, ii ^"'^ '^"m- 
 
 
 THI 
 
liked Jef^,s, 
 
 '" «iay fee, 
 ^^' iife, keep 
 
 [ you wijj 
 
 ntained at 
 ^nd every 
 't there is 
 ended in 
 
 ch Were 
 
 f^mand. 
 ^d iiim, 
 ^^. and 
 
 e com- 
 e pre^ 
 e com- 
 ^v you 
 keep 
 
 PHfi 
 
 ^ 
 
 S^iWo5^ 
 
 ^ 
 
 ".1 
 
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 THE 
 
 FIRST TABLE. 
 
 ^ 
 
 vf X .u I nt-ci thv GOD which have 
 S bruXte^uJofVeLandoiEgypt, I 
 g out oTtheHoufe of Bondage. .g 
 
 sec 
 
 yk 
 
 A 
 
 
 I. 
 
 Thou IhakhWc no oAcj Gods before me, ^ 
 
 ^•-Tf ^'r?a:S *a"» rh=bS; I 
 
 
 n 
 - x 
 
 u Thoa ftal't not bow down thyf.lf to 
 der the earth. Thou Iha't " ^^^^ ^^p ,„^ 
 
 them »"' fe"=J,-" 'the ••"•■q-i'y ""« ^Kers upon 
 a jealous God V ruing t H '^^^^j,, generation of 
 
 the children, unto '"= .Xwina mercy uiuothoufands, 
 
 m vain, ror tne uui« 
 that takcth his name in vam. 
 
 Remember .He Sabba.h-d;v to l^eep J" holy. Si. 
 days malt thou labou^ an ^^"^^^ [''j: -'^ God : In 
 fcventh day is tli^ **"''* ,",t ,v„„ „„, thy fon, nor 
 it thou Ihalt notdo any r'^'^""' "J, '/maid fer- 
 thy daughter, they "^" ~a,^^,7iL n within 
 va'nt, nor they ""?•"" ^'e Smade heaven and 
 they gate.. For m ta d ys he I . ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ 
 
 :re1ev:n^':V Wher|rc:".he Lord b.effedthe Ic 
 
 venthday, and hallowed it - 
 
 sec 
 jsc 
 
 )eC 
 
 5« 
 5« 
 
 »; venthday, ana nauov.^^... ^ 
 
 B 4 
 
( H ) 
 
 i 
 
 I' ^ 
 
 ' r J 
 
 VVJTI* ^<« ' 
 
 *h God ^i/rj/.- {». Thou jiaTl, "', ^""y '■" 
 'landmen,. ^ "'""^ = ^h Is (h7titn^f'''i.a,,d 
 
 wrong fude-I?' l'""'^ 't a verv / j '^° "otiove 
 i ftaJJ Z" '^;""« te raid to W /°" ^° ""d ob! 
 
 "*- ^Vloies to 
 
5 command-. 
 
 '^^^e calls 
 
 We fays in 
 
 ^reat com. 
 
 ^o not Jove 
 'ncJ a very 
 ^ards your 
 our/lives, 
 ^ather, to 
 
 ^ oy our 
 
 y before 
 and ob. 
 ^nd thh 
 ferftood 
 
 I am 
 
 out of 
 
 am Me 
 
 never 
 
 houfi 
 
 mbie 
 "eh, 
 ^ of 
 2od 
 
 tar- 
 
 uf.- 
 
 to 
 
 -^'^ 
 
 ( 25 ) 
 
 deliver the Jews from a flavery that would have 
 ended naturally wlrh their mortal life, and to 
 bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land 
 fiowine; with milk and honey : But he has fent 
 his only befTotten Son, to deliver you from the 
 flavery of fin, from the bondage of the devil, 
 that would have lafted to all eternity v and to 
 bring you from this land of wickednefs, from this 
 finful world, into a land flowing with eternal joys 
 and felicity, into the heavenly Jerufalem. ^ 
 
 What think you now ? Is it not true that^'^'^ 
 preamble concerns you much ; and that God has 
 fliewn even more love to you, than to the child- 
 ren of Ifracl ? Somuch the more then, are you 
 bou^d in duty to love him, and to keep his com- 
 mandments i whereupon I proceed. 
 
 FIRST Commandment. 
 
 noujhalt have no other Gods before me. 
 
 Here again you may fuppofe, there is no call 
 with you for fuch commandments. But I mult 
 tell you there is : and a great call too For ma- 
 ny people, who ftile themfelves chriftians, and 
 think theyferve the true God, do yet ferve other 
 aodsinfteadofhim. St. Paul fpeakes in Phil. 
 III., 19, offome, that mtiki their belly thctr gods. 
 Is there none fuch among you ? The fame Apoftlc 
 calls the devil, the godcf this world, i. Cor. IV. 4. 
 Are there no worlhippers of the devil m this land . 
 
 ^^ But 
 
 m 
 
 r^ 
 
kl 
 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 I 
 
 the devil -r. ^^^^ not xx^U^.i. 
 *° 3 void what W "T' '' fo do what !»"'" ''«''''- 
 
 T" ""not Ztty '^''" '■■= eood"l^««- ferve 
 ''r ''°^ne what ■ '^'^= a"d pie° r. 1 . "^^^ ' fo 
 
 ^^=n aflualj'" ;''7.y''«fc they L,^^' «*"y peo. 
 r?^" or tt"?'P t'^e d.^ii'^°'fy God! do 
 'aidi,,/-,,,,, "*"K%i Vines, or nrl'r*^ then their 
 
 SECOND r 
 
 ^'sraK^.-i-w' 
 
■i^.-t *,*., j.,,^;„^ilfc^^.:-i;,, ^, ,. 
 
 ^^^ the dew;. 
 ]^ c.^nimands, 
 
 ''Phtn. in /pi, 
 
 ""^'^ iy- 24. 
 '/ God, tt . 
 
 " goodnefs 
 ^e and wor- 
 ^fter ferve 
 
 ^"^^h thin 
 ^^'ly pea. 
 God, do 
 en their 
 
 ^^> Op :{ 
 
 ^a God "^ 
 ^ J /ha/i 
 ^eaJt of 
 
 e devil^ 
 of the 
 
 •<?, or 
 
 
 '^ <9r 
 
 "* % 
 
 vater 
 
 
 rto 
 
 m a 
 
 ■4- 
 
 ious 
 
 
 ( 27 ) 
 
 ?.^/.«3 G^r/ 1'^'/?^/«^ the iniquity of the fathers upon the 
 children, unto the third and fourth generation of them 
 that hate me -, and fhewing mercy unto thoularM of 
 them that love me, and keep my commandyients. 
 
 What is forbidden in this commandment is the 
 worfhining of idols ., which the heathen ufed to 
 do, making images of wood, ftoncs, brafs, filver, 
 &c &c. offering them prayers and lacnticrs ; 
 which worfhip is called idolatry. Of this, 1 con- 
 fefs that I fee no c anger ofyour becommg guilty : 
 But there is another kind of idolatry, which per- 
 haps you are not aware of. St. Paul fays in Col. 
 111. 5, that covetoufnefs is idolatry , bccaufe, as the 
 heathen ufed to put their truft in idols, which 
 could not help them in time of need j fo the co- 
 vetous put their truft in their riches which are pe- 
 rifhable things. Thefame may be faid of all other 
 ■iufts • As gold and filver, and lioufes and lands, 
 are the idols of the covetous -, fo are, liquor, the 
 idol of the drunkard ; and {trumpets, the idols ot 
 fuch as arc addifted to whoredom. Beware for 
 your dear foul's f^ke, of all thefe kinds of idolatryi 
 for we read infcripture, that idoladers (ball not tn. 
 herit the kingdom of God. i . Cor X. 7; and that 
 they /}jallhave their part in the lake whtch burnetb 
 with fire and brim^one, Ucv. XXI. 8. 
 
 THIRD Commandmerit. 
 
 ; ^houfhalt not tak^ the name of the Lord thy Gd 
 k vain : for the Lord willftot hold him gmltkfs toat 
 
 4fi vain : f 
 
 taketh bis name in vain. 
 
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 /, 
 
Il 
 
 ?/ 
 
 «t 
 
 Pl-ay ^' 
 
 ( 28 
 
 J 
 
 ^ys. Mr-i^ofG^j 
 
 111 
 
 We 
 
 ^^'*^, fe 
 
 cid to' 
 
 
 ""'^ht i^^'J'} you 
 
 
 let} 
 
 ^^e to rf^ you '^]n''' guilty 
 
 y your 
 
 ^^ your\T'y^ry dJy^rs 
 
 5o^J/ider 
 ^ thn 
 
 "CQ 
 
 
 ^'■^n ce';;'" '^ '>ur>-y„Tf f'r />;;'"' your v;"^ you,. 
 
 ^^o„, ;f^ '>a;j,e Of 'A '°f^y y^ "AJlr'^^'t.rs 
 
 Jc. 
 
 you 
 
 ca// 
 
 £>?1;s«.^i^»S,« 
 
 ««d o4>, .,S"L^^y !elg°d'^ S r ^*" 
 
 
 
 '7, 
 
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 Co 
 
 
 
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 //. 
 
>d 
 
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 in 
 Gn 
 
 .^«/^, re 
 
 ( »9 ) 
 
 II. All profanations of God's holy name are 
 
 : " All undecent and 
 in our difcourfe, the' 
 
 1 xve n '^^^era/wftly called i.ikhio; it in vain : 
 ally y^^crjd to** unfit ufe of God's name i: 
 
 ^^ ^"t Dr 7^ ^° ^^ch*^ it be not in fwearing or curfing, comes wirhiii 
 ^e/] vve^^^^^y ift ^' the prohibition of this commandment. All ir- 
 'ou H^;/f ^'^ g^U/Vtv '* reverent fayings, and even thoughts, concern- 
 
 
 tAr, 
 
 ee 
 
 
 o6e 
 Aer 
 
 
 'Sri 
 
 f/ie/i 
 5 to 
 
 ^1 
 
 *l -^^ 
 
 « ing his nature and attributes, his anions and his 
 ** commands, fall under the fame guilt. All forts 
 '' of talk, ridiculing, mifreprefenting, or inveigh- 
 " ing againft religion, or whatever is connected 
 <« with it incur the like condemnation." All cur- 
 fing of ourfelves and others, all blafphemies, all 
 calling upon God without ncceflity or without 
 meaning •, all this, is taking the name of the Lord 
 our God in vain, 
 
 III. Sinful oaths arc alfo a breach of this com- 
 mandment: And of thcfe there is many forts. 
 There is, vain-, there is rafl\ •, and there is, falfe 
 
 oaths. . , - . , 
 
 Vain oaths are thofe which we fwcar without 
 neceflity, and upon frivolous occafions •, and fuch 
 arc thofe which men are apt to mingle with their 
 common difcourfing. ^ , . 
 
 We fwear ralhly, when we fwcar things that 
 we ought not to fwcar-, that is, for inftance, when 
 we oblige ourfelves by oath to do that which is 
 wrong, or wicked j as to be revenged ; as to do 
 no good to fuch or fuch perfon •, as never to for. 
 give-, as to commit any kind of fin: It is alfo, 
 when we bind ourfelves by oaths to do things, 
 which are beyond our power to perform -, or when 
 we affirm things, which we arc not very certain 
 
 ^^- Falfc 
 
 I 
 
 ! 
 
 i\ 
 
 11 
 
./ 
 
 ( 30 ) 
 
 to do and n^i-r^. ^ \ ^" * ^id when ur« ® 
 fulfil. P''^^"'-"' fh^t whic). we have no I ^f ^= 
 XT *^ ^o nund to 
 
 The reafon of this if^I '^vearing. 
 "!>"" the name ofGod '/^' *° '"^«" '' to call 
 '" evidence of the truth ru '° ^PP^^I unto htm 
 P'^m.re, and to chaj"lif V '' ""^'^^ ^= -ffim or 
 
 ":^ or promillftfr ' "' '^ ^« ^o not fpeafc 
 
 ''•vinrrext'^^^r^f"" y"" '''ou'd take r,. 
 
 ', '^'''^ept when vol, ,,.. ii , <^are not ta 
 
 »;-^'^-, cither in evidCce of ff '^"P°" ^^ ^^g - 
 " ' =^, ''■^ bound to the D -rfn "" ^*'^«' °r i„ ov 
 
 ^"^y^ « ^«r not ncJ: ^"^^> ^-^ not do n^ tt; ^ 
 you have caJied Pr^';?^«gt^epfon,ire f L^f 
 would fuifiii'^^ "P°- God to wiWs, that yot 
 
 ^FOURTH 
 
 f 
 i 
 
 V 
 
^ata thing Is 
 «en we engage 
 ^^ «o mind to 
 
 ' «re very fin- 
 ^«at venture, 
 
 '? o^ oaths J 
 ^ing, 
 
 Jar is to call 
 
 ^^ unto him 
 
 We iiffirm or 
 
 "s prcfently 
 
 >not fpeak 
 
 •are not to 
 
 1 by magf. 
 • or in or- 
 ome duty-j 
 s oaths are 
 but to the 
 to prefent 
 ^Ufe away 
 you have 
 id not be 
 ^vhtn you 
 
 2 courts, 
 "% fulfil 
 
 tbe du- 
 
 of faife 
 
 niaJ tor^ 
 
 ^'ng that 
 
 which 
 lat you 
 
 CJRTH 
 
 4 
 
 '4 
 
 I 
 
 ( 3' ) 
 
 FOURTH Commandment. 
 
 Remember the/ahh.'k Jay lokeep it My. Six Aayi . 
 /halt thou labour ami do all thy ^ork: But theje- 
 vinth da, is thefabbatb of the Lord thy God: In ,t 
 TouM not do any .vork, thou, "or'byfo'',^ nor 
 the', daughter, thy man fervant, nor they maul fer- 
 'Z, nor they cattle, nor the firanger that u w:lbm 
 Zgates. For in ft. days the Lord made heaven 
 and earth, the fea, ''"^''lithatmthemuandpl 
 the feventh day : Wherefore, the Lord blejfed tht 
 fabbath day, and hallowed tt. _ 
 
 ^ Two things are prefcribed to you m this conv- 
 
 mandment -Labour for fix days in the week, & 
 Sous reit ou the feventh. But as I fpeak nov^ 
 of religious duties efpecially ; I ftall o" y/«k« 
 notkelt prefentofthislaftduty: ra.<p W;- thi 
 
 '^' Whtn God commanded his people to reft on the 
 Sabbath day. he had two confiderations.n view 
 One we find exprefled in txodus XXIU. I2. 
 where God himfelf (ays: On the feventh day thou 
 (halt reii ; that thine *x and thine afs may reft, and 
 the (on of thy hand-maid, and the ftranger may be re- 
 (riled This confideration af allowing reft and 
 {*fre(hment to fervants, flaves and even to catdc ; 
 being rather a moral than religious duty, 1 Ihall 
 Hkewife take no further notice of it at prefen . to 
 dwell only in the fecond and principal deiign, or 
 Eftprefcribedinthe fo-th commandment 
 and which was to confecrate that day to religion 
 and to the worfhip »/ God. 
 
 1 make 
 
. i 
 
 \vh 
 
 ^ wiaJce lib doubt b 
 
 C 32 ) 
 
 at It IS 
 
 lit that 
 
 ■■Md and to l,»o. L-"" " " to fins hi. 
 
 ^eiJ lor the bodv a<i fi,« r , "'^'^ are nece/Tarv 
 'oknow this. ,7yr,t ?„"t ohr'"'''''^"°'-oU' 
 "ot enough to ob/irve Jt "n, '^''^^ '^ ' «"d ic^? 
 yo"r hearts and minds "r ^ ,?«'^»^'l'y •• For f 
 ^od as well as your !,'''""'">'' do not Z/fy.'^ 
 r'y mocking God , ^^"r ?'"^ bodies. 1,^'P 
 
 ^oa. when you re;>H ;,•' ^ ^^e^oodnpfi r 
 
 '■eadorfaid. and 1^ "''^ '"^^^^ uponll '''*/ 
 ftould alwav. r^ ??"''"='■ ^eJi upon i" ¥^ " 
 
 fcceiving the word ofr^^ ^^^^ that bv f^, 
 
 prayer over °!'l«'"fed With fpeakino- ^r*^ >'°» 
 
 talcing 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 I 
 
^" genera] 
 ' ^"g hit 
 fo return 
 •o a/k him 
 -e/Tary as 
 •t enough 
 "d it is 
 
 ' ^^or, if 
 ^v'or/h fp 
 you are 
 o^ wor* 
 ^'otion . 
 
 ' Lord, 
 /houid 
 nfe of 
 eis of 
 ►ad or 
 
 hir/iy 
 at ii 
 lyotf 
 
 'ther 
 >rm- 
 !:iius 
 'aijf 
 
 and 
 or 
 
 OlT 
 
 of 
 w. 
 
 is 
 
 ^^ 
 
 I 
 
 ( 33 ) 
 
 taking the name of the Lord your God in vain •, 
 it is in fad, as 1 told you v/hen I fpokc on the 
 firft commandment, doing fcrvlce to the devil 
 and not to God : for it happens that while you 
 thus careLcfly fpeak out a prayer, your mind runs 
 upon quite other matters, fuch as wordly con- 
 cerns i and very often upon wickednefs and fin; 
 And yet, when your prayer is tlius faid over, you 
 are mightily pleafed with yourft-lvcs, as if you 
 had done fuch a piece of fcrvice to God, as ob- 
 liges him to give you large credit for. 
 
 To convince you of the error that in this re» 
 fpe(5t leads you to perdition, I will make this 
 comparifon, and afk you this queftion. When 
 you pretend that you are praying to God, is your 
 mind afFcfted in the fame manner, as v/hen you . 
 alk fome great man either to grant you a fivour, 
 to lend you fome money, ox to forgive you a debt 
 v;hich you cannot pay, or an offence for which he 
 can ruin you ? Compare only this. When you 
 come out of your houfe to come to this great 
 man's, you are trembling ail over, and fretting 
 for fear he would refufe to hear you, or to grant 
 you your prayer •, you can think of nothing elu-, 
 and even if you meet any body who talks lo you 
 about other matters, you hardly know what they 
 fay, fomuch are your head and your heart filled 
 with the affair you are going upon. Is it io with 
 you likewife, when you come out of j'pur Houfes 
 to go to church, there to pray Cod to continue 
 his favour and bleifings, and to forgive your fins, 
 for which he can juftly ruin you for eternity ? Is 
 itfgf Comj^are your behaviour and thre flatc of 
 
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 ( 34 ) 
 
 "P"" your elf • ' '»^" ! and tJ, 
 
 '^''«" you are CO '•'"^'=- Are yo ''';;' »"^-'<- me 
 
 ffi°" ^-va^dfyo^'f^'-'^-fd JroVjO" /pare 
 
 ^ 
 
 ;:• ""tninp- «»ir^ L '•*'* you fn^.^l ^ ^ii9 : 
 
 °^""o et, ert?'"^ ^° '■^'v.«;o , ":">; '""• Bu? J 
 '^Aether fo"fh{' "' '" ^PPh to r ,T'^ ''""fc 
 
 y"""- mind fto.?Ml " '''°"'d >-epeat7, ^^'^ you 
 '.' f-^ ftort '„ w„^^°'^ !« that pTayer , '^^?'" ^^T 
 
 <7^^i? 
 
'"'^^'1 further 
 ''"''; you are 
 ^^^^ to hinx 
 ' ' you fparc 
 
 ' '' ^o much 
 '", that you 
 
 *\you think 
 i\ow is it 
 
 ^'^ ^o God, 
 
 ^'^^ce wi/i 
 ^- But if 
 •"^t thiu/c 
 ?y prayer 
 
 ^^^ hu. 
 ' ^ow to. 
 *^ouf or 
 
 •e^v you 
 '"d h«w 
 'era] fa, 
 
 ^^. tho» 
 
 «ieaii, 
 
 >rayer. 
 
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 < 35 ) 
 
 OUR F.fTHER, :Mh an 
 in heaven. 
 
 Hallowed be thy Name. 
 
 Thy Kingdom come. 
 
 Tliy W^ill he done on Earthy^ as 
 it if in Heaven. 
 
 Give lis this Day our daily Bread. 
 
 And forgive us our "Trefpaffesj 
 as we forgive them that T^refpajs 
 againji us. 
 
 And lead us not into tempt at ion^ 
 hut deliver us from Evih 
 
 For J thine is the Kingdom, 
 and the Power, and the Glory, 
 for ever and ever. 
 
 J M E N. 
 
 C 2, You 
 
i .' 
 
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 I 
 
 ) ; 
 
 Yol 
 
 ( 36) 
 
 
 wh( 
 
 J am 
 
 en you f^y 
 
 ^^?^*"g 
 
 weighed 
 "" that I 
 
 .expound 
 
 er 
 
 for 
 
 '^Si?} F'-'°''r'''''"'«^'' 
 
 call 
 
 whole ^' "^""firmation fn „ 
 
 I Tf, . '"°"« word of the 
 
 J- -There is J A^ - , ^"* 
 
 i-ord's prav^,. , Z' '" the fir/i ■ i 
 
 word, /o7r / '""'"g "Pon o.f <T' • '" '''= 
 
 A's Hffhtor, \u ^.' ''^ "'"■ ^ati,e- f i' '^"'^^s 
 
 ''ears to^s L ™ ■■ ""^ """o. he ?o "f ^"f>' of 
 to that c'ii";^ ^iZV'-i our prX:J^^' V.'^e 
 
 1°^^^ "P and ro^fi^ " doe, „„, „:„' Ut"!!?^' 
 ^sprefentevervwK ^'"^'■e' ^noe in ^e Y "'^ '* 
 
 /i="Pt«r. is wont to£T''"''"^'''>-^hTlZ^J^ 
 h, the direJIinf, ofT' 1 ^'^^e" more n...- .'*'« 
 
 Therefore our Q ■ '"' '"aj'=% and of), " 8^'^« 
 
 --rat/on for oJ/Lt:? /"hT^' ,^0^ tr^ 
 
 ^ «Wr, and our con. 
 
 iidence 
 
 '^^fe^ 
 
'^'^n which 
 ^] IS made 
 
 ^ go along 
 on. 
 
 s great* 
 I of the 
 
 in the 
 " thefe 
 • Jc- 
 
 ^irecfls 
 
 both, 
 ity of 
 
 God 
 
 ■ owe 
 
 add, 
 )d is 
 iod 
 
 the 
 ar- 
 ^es 
 er. 
 
 sic 
 c/r 
 1- 
 
 :e 
 
 ( 37 ) 
 
 tidcncc in him, by the confidcratioii of his father- 
 ly difpofition, and of his divine power to grant us 
 our humble and juft pray«r. , 
 
 The meaning of that firft part of the Lord's 
 prayer is therefore this : 
 
 O Lord oar God^ who ?nade us and who by thy 
 great power ^ and wifdotn andgoodnefs^ Jlill preferves 
 us ; hear from the height of thy glory the prayer of 
 thy creatures^ who look up and call upon thee^ and 
 humbly implore thy mercy and thy hle_ffings ! 
 
 This is what you fliould mean from your foul, 
 when beginning your prayer, you fay : 
 
 Our Father, which art in heaven. Ahd you 
 ought to fpeak. it, with uplifted eyes, hands and 
 
 hearts. 
 
 II. After thus calling upon God in the Lord's 
 prayer, we make no lefs than fix petitions. 
 
 I. Petition. Hallowed by thy Name. I cannot 
 give you a better explanation of thefe words, than 
 faying : Hallowing the name of God, is the very 
 contrary and oppoAtt to thofe fms which are for- 
 bidden in the third commandment -, namely, the 
 taking of the name ot God in vain. To hallow 
 the name of God is therefore, firft, to have for 
 him that veneration and refped which will ftrike 
 your hearts with a religious awe, and fear of him-, 
 efpecially, when you draw near unto him by 
 prayer, or any adt of worfliip : Secondly, To 
 make ufe of his name with the greatcft reverence 
 only, as a moft holy name, avoiding all profane 
 or idle mention of it : and laftly, to beware of 
 all thofe fmful oaths, which I have fhewn you 
 to be a tranfgreflion of the third coramandmeiit. • 
 
 C 3 Now 
 
! • / 
 
 ■Now I mri/1- „-./. 
 
 God be Llfc" "^« not wheZ X"' ''"''"'^ 
 *«nce to aik V Af f? "'"= ''^fore God wL*''°'"'"- 
 
 Sorr„^°"^'"=^- 'otlioX'"' ^°" '-" 
 
 «>°"id 6^), n" ^"* ^ny P opriet "" °^ ^"'l 
 
 tiegrtatftl'r^/ ^^ o^er? An/v ^ '^'' '' 
 Tfd ^V*"'t awtirdftv f« ,. -^ . "'' " would be 
 
 *d. Petition r^„..,,- '" '^' "^S'«« of 
 w=ant is, both thJ^ '^'"gdom come. What ;. i. 
 dom of God o?er thVf '"''°" °'^'he fpTrt J l^"''' 
 
 to his f„ „? *" your affcaions • fi.k • ^"*^ ^"d 
 
 ^^^ ^o^i^ands of God to 
 
 his 
 
 i 
 
 rt 
 
 L-.-J 
 
 '^^'^^Sl^i^yei:^:^^ 
 
 -*■-..- ..-- 
 
^°^f J a/k you 
 
 ^ the Lord's 
 ^ y^^ reaijy 
 ^o you a/k ft 
 
 ^o" careiefs 
 ^he nanje of 
 of abomin. 
 ^^'th a pre^ 
 ind, if you 
 
 you mufl 
 »e of God 
 17 that it 
 
 would be 
 c that the 
 ' towards 
 ^^glca of 
 
 •t Js here 
 •^ai king, 
 children, 
 1 where- 
 ^ ever. 
 
 God's 
 •ts and 
 irfeJvej 
 1 byalJ 
 
 as far 
 
 theii^ 
 within 
 
 /Iiare 
 
 s It ts 
 d to 
 his 
 
 ( 39 ) 
 
 ills angels arc performed fpeedlly, chearfuUy, and 
 nerfeaiy , anithe decrees of his providence over 
 ?h n ar fubn>itted to, thankfully a.d without 
 epi" ngor murmuring. So is the ^^^1 ^f God 
 Ze in\caven , and fo you pray that it (hou d be 
 done here on earth. Look to it yourfe ves there- 
 fore •, and bvvour own obedience to his laws, and 
 youVrehgnanon to the difpenfattons of his prov. 
 deuce, whatever thofe difpenfations may be fhew 
 that you really wi(h the will of God may U dene 
 m earth as it is in heaven. , 
 
 4th. t-etition. Give us this day oar daily ^ h ead 
 Daily bread, means all what isnecefTary m life, 
 according to our rank and condition and accord- 
 inp to the rules of moderation and temperance 
 The reafoi. why Jefus Chrift teached us to aik ot 
 God by pray.r, is, that without the bleflmg of God^ 
 we cannot by our own endeavoure fucceed in pro- 
 curing the riceffarics of life : Without God giveth 
 rain, both the former and the latter m its feafon, 
 to-r labours would be all in vain. It is his good- 
 Lfs and power which makes every thing to grow 
 out of the ground, every work to fucceed : Indeed 
 you muft not fpareyour labours becaufc from God s 
 blelfing only they have their iucccfs : For aU 
 though it be certain that he could if he pleafes 
 feed you by miracles, and fend you your daily 
 bread without your taking any pains to get it i 
 yet it is as certain, that he will not do it. It would 
 be aaing contrary to his wifdom, thus to indulge 
 idlenefs and vice. You muft therefore both work 
 for your bread, and pray to^God to give it you. 
 You muft work every day, and pray evcry^day^ . 
 
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 C40 ) 
 
 not prefer! v^"" • ''^ God's T °.^ P''""'''- 
 
 ^^^^fc bread to eat ^r" ''^"« '"ow^ yof ^"?^ 
 r-ier'ltare ^ v^o^'^ '^ ^^d";^ , 'J^ ^:frr 
 
 '".^rp^«r * ^°"^^-'-'"'^e o„g/etoe: ar: 
 
 . 5"i, Petition ;r^, ' 
 
 J-'^ed to IT'I "''God : ?;/, y"" ^"i have . 
 
 "^fi'ci « m^J^'ff^ rourfelves of & '"^^"«* i 
 ^•°"'d not onL /• 'u'^ y°" •• '^ you t^^ /.^^^"ged 
 ^°«'n«e hk>i^ ^°'''^="- taking y"Zt 'Y' ^°^ 
 
 Jfyo" ,v?ft«r'^i° t^o'-e who fat/"'- "'"."'" ^'fc= 
 ^"■fUandL " ®°'* '^""'d PHI \' '"J"^^d you,: 
 
 ^yo"wron/Ll'">"°'^'"'ft^"d'W °" """^ 
 
 S'°f'''« command given, 
 
 US 
 
 %, 
 
^ovidence do 
 
 '"» you wiij 
 
 e. 
 
 ^'} >"0" come 
 ^^^t therefore 
 ' ^^i^e provf, 
 
 contented- 
 
 ^yon only 
 '*^ you muft 
 ^" god was 
 o" with a 
 toencreafe 
 
 > ^^ %-•«» fo^^ 
 
 e ^uii fen- 
 t need of 
 f^e Condi, 
 ^^'ii have . 
 e^en a]- 
 will for_ 
 
 ^ou wi/h 
 >ff*encej5 ; 
 evenged 
 lat God 
 but aifo 
 ftirj Jikc 
 ^ you : 
 
 ^ not- *" 
 ' mu/t 
 y may 
 
 us 
 
 ( 4^ ) 
 
 ,,5 by our Lord Jefus Chrift in Mat. V. 44- ^f * 
 
 you/enemies, biffs them that curfeyoit Jo good to them 
 that bate you, and p' ay for them zvhich difptCj idly ujs 
 you and prfecute you. This is one of the great 
 points of chrilVian dodrine •, fprgivnefs of injuneo 
 and love of enemies? and you are no chriftians, it 
 you do not praftife it •, not only by outward 3 nd 
 feeming behaviour, but alfo by inward difpofition 
 and affe'^ioa of the heart. 
 
 You fee in the Lord's prayer, the condition of 
 the forpivnefs of fins , and if you are truly defi.- 
 foLof obtaining it, you ought to bamO. from 
 Your hearts all rancour, malice and fp^te^ For 
 ^ur Saviour declare, in Matt. VI. 14. '5- ^^Jr 
 T forgive men their trefpafes, your, heavenly fa^er 
 Wfoforgiveyou , buUfye forgive not men ffoeu 
 
 fajes. 
 
 As you forgive you ftaU be forgiven: 
 6th Petition. Lead as not into tmplatipn hut Je- 
 liver us from ivil. Every day men pray for this in 
 the Lord's prayer •, and every day mod men feek 
 after temptation, and look^ for opponumties o 
 doing evil, every day moftdei.ght in being ov« 
 come bv temptations and in doing evil : And to 
 me it is furprifing that fuch are not aftiamed to fay 
 the Lord's'prayer. But you if you really wi(h o 
 efcape temptation, and ^ ^^'°'d 'hat which is ev,K 
 endeavour yourfelves, at the fame time that you 
 a(k it of God : Then he will hear your prayer, 
 ^ Saffift you with his grace. Fly /l-rf ^e fro- 
 ^ temptation, or if you cannot avoid to be t«'"^j^^'| 
 
 m 
 
'i 
 
 h 
 
 
 // 
 
 ^^'h■L'''l"'"= That h ^ °^=yed and r u ' '"«» 
 rearhin,; That fc " ^''^'•efofe f^ , ''*" rfo 
 
 cantrn/i ^°" are to n. "'^ God • ,>^ '"^^ ""d 
 
 That °'' '"y °'ke; ' " •■'PPJ'ed. A i' '^ ' °' 
 •* nat IS to fav /"^ Player, ,> ^^ -^f the end of 
 
 ■'^issw 
 
 -k 
 
 ""■t??" 
 
' do thio 
 
 ;; 'V' God 
 
 /"''""fted 
 'd can do 
 
 ",g{°'-'ous 
 P and a. 
 
 ^'»s and 
 
 natyou 
 -^ a/iy 
 y hoth 
 
 ' end, 
 
 r this 
 
 J or 
 id of 
 
 ' /> : 
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 'fed , 
 acm 
 
 rd 
 
 ( 43 ) 
 
 fw/«.-'-^;--"-'ji',£7rt the end' of 
 
 no^rcp^auL \^^:^; ^^ of prailes to God, 
 
 ,yers or -^^^^'f^f:^^^. M every 
 
 this word, Amen, is a j. ^ ^,^^.,1. 
 
 body mould '-^'y 7f :,\'i%.ee" ith, that «hich 
 heart, they confent to, aua ag 
 
 has been repeated. < 
 
 1. T i,,vi. fhewn vou the mean- 
 Now my brethren I have mewny ^^^ 
 
 ing and great ^'^r:\T^v.t\^ZL%o^^ is alfo 
 Lord's prayer, what I have fa^dthP ^^^ 
 
 applicable to any other fo ^ °^j^P / ,(n,„s, 
 mua weigh withm . '" «'"'^'^ '/^ .n ^Lt is in 
 confider well the.r n^;=«'"f;,/; ^ end of them, 
 vour power to work y°"^^'7t- God to give you 
 
 ^hen^. for inftance. r^^ Pr^^^^",?,! hi! provi- 
 patience to bear the affl'a.ons w^ ^^^^^j ^^^ 
 
 dcnce t«eth you w,th Y .^ j.,1,,3 , 
 
 you can to work tnat y ^^ 
 
 When you a(k him '"^ S'"« , ;'„ , power to 
 
 keep his law -, you muft do alHn y P^^^ 
 
 obferve 1"^ '••°""?:*tr or offei praifes, let it be 
 pray, or return thanks °-^ « J^ P^ j^, ',,, ,„d a 
 
 r VT r;:X own - wo" thinefs and of the 
 humble lenlcot>^-i ^^vu addreflinff your- 
 
 gteatnefs of him whom Y- a^e add ^_^y^^^^ 
 
 IV . 24- God IS a jpru, J you fee, 
 
 m,(i v^orJbtP km '^£"'^" ^ ^^t^ard behaviour, 
 
 which may be only » ""; . ^- j ,> /pi,// fl«'i 
 iuWly from the heart and rnino, mir ^^^ 
 
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y 
 
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 ( 45 ) 
 
 our, fpend it in the fpiritual bufinefs of the 
 I's fandlification which is bell done by at^s of 
 th public and private worfhip. 
 
 to our 
 ts do not 
 
 ; /;3 r '^*?' ^^//r^j-j There is fomcthing more, belonging 
 />/'ay^ .^^ ^/. tjgious duties, which the commandment 
 '^<ho Q^y ^ Ood,^ mention ; but which the gofpel teaches. It is, 
 hen tA "^^ys, fraying to God in the name of his fon Jcfus Chrid, 
 i>a/f: n^^^^y- Ifid tht obfervancc of thofe facraments, which 
 
 '^' {h^^ ^^y §"^ Saviour h;^ inftituted and commanded to be 
 
 ^^%e. °^^rf "^^ ' 
 to Zl ^^f of 
 
 t'e 
 
 P^^V, 
 
 yct 
 
 i^ven 
 
 ^nd 
 
 you 
 
 e;jf. 
 
 ^f too - 
 
 a/io 
 
 0/3/ 
 
 
 Wc 
 
 ^on. 
 
 ■^ oiit^ 
 
 fo 
 
 ^c. 
 
 
 bferved. 
 I In regard to the praying God in the name of 
 |his fon Jefus Ckriil, the reafon of it it. That a*? 
 we all are linners, we have no right to cxpecft 
 the lead favour from God on account of any 
 merit of our own : But God has promifcd, that 
 for the fake of our blefTed Saviour, and in regard 
 to the merit ofhis fufPerings, he will hear our pray- 
 ers and grant them (o far as will be confiftent with 
 his wifd^om. 
 
 When therefore you pr'ay, you muft in your 
 hearts acknowledge thatyouareunworthytoafkand 
 receive any blefTmgs from God j but that, as St. 
 Paul advifes in Plcb. IV. i6. You come boldly to the - 
 throne of grace, that you may obtain mercy y and find 
 grace to help in time of need : In full aflurance, that 
 according to our Saviour's promife in John. XVT. 
 23. Watfoever ye djk the father in bis name, he will 
 give ityoH, 
 
 The 
 
 
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Hi 
 
 11 
 
 ( 46 ) 
 
 . ?!'" ''**''a'«ews which On,, c, • 
 
 "> h,s church, are tvro Tjf.T"' ]-'' '^^*"«^'< 
 
 %peroftheLord. -^''^ '^«P"'m and the 
 
 fpe«°of /o"r?hill"n;'o°d ^m'^'*' -' '■" '- 
 of yourfelvet. ' ' Sod-childtcn ; ami alfo 
 
 "ufe them to be entered «-'f.' ''"^°" "'"''W 
 phe number of his foecM r °" " P°''5We, i„ 
 "}'=ry fit that you &'^''T'' ' ^"'^='"■0. it 
 «bJe your own children 11.'"'''='"' '"°°" « pof- 
 
 church fays. ^ *^'^*"'. as the catechifm of our 
 
 thiSr"mSt;botrr;fpX.'^^^^ ''" '^^^^^ ^o 
 and a fo your god-chiJdr« F""";'"^" children 
 are vtrluoufy frourht «r, 1 f ^° ^^^ that thev - 
 ftia^tif,; af itKco^^^J-f .V^^^W. ell 
 the^baptifm of infants ''''* '" °"'- ^^ce for 
 
 t^^^^:^\ T:» '■" 3^0- name 
 our church catechifm. whereTn L ''*''' >'°" """o to 
 and explained : hd^^^^V^^y "re laid down 
 mance of them isV,,!^ ?"'^ ''"*' that the nerfm- 
 towa d. God?:'„ Tr;^ -J^iousduty.^at; 
 
 to difcharge, not only bJrllfr •''°" ^''^ "^hged 
 
 a right 
 
 '^^ 
 
iias ofdained 
 ifm and the 
 
 ( 47 ) 
 
 arigkttolayuponyou 
 plcftfcs 
 
 "W 
 
 hatevcr cammands he 
 
 ^ a^. • I I will not fay fo much on the 
 
 .; A? '^ I fanDcr of the Lord, as the mat 
 
 '"i amialfo 
 
 Iran to God 
 their birth; 
 :hiJdren, it 
 yon /hould 
 5o/nbJe, in 
 md alfo, it 
 >on as pof- 
 e fo much, 
 nheritcrs of 
 uTm of our 
 
 I'egard to 
 ^ children 
 that they - 
 nd a chri. 
 office for 
 
 u alfo to 
 aid down 
 c perfor- 
 "f-i a duty 
 
 ^romifed 
 pecially 
 hecaufe 
 vho has 
 a right 
 
 facramcnt of tha 
 ftheLord, asthc matter might require 
 
 11 not fwell tills little book. There- 
 hat is faid about it, not only 
 
 fuppcr 
 bcciufc I wi 
 
 fr^\4;t br2T;roV;o?.ce for the co.,n« 
 „"on"nd in our church catechifm, or m f-.ch othe 
 Tous r.as « you may have at hand ■• And wjl 
 Lly take notice, of the difpofmons "hf ^ 7; 
 nuired in thofe who come to the Lord s fupper , 
 r r co:f.dering in » few words, w^.at obl,gat.on 
 and intereft you have, to parfc.pate as often as 
 you can to that blefTed and holy 'acran^ent 
 
 oTma'nden: fS- "^' .'« -;— f 
 
 D to a^nd your live. , and becaufe thereby you 
 fhew your gratitude to God and Jefus Chr.ft, for 
 fhe redemption of your fouls, which is reprefent- 
 
 ^'id 'Ifi/™- intereft fo to do frequently . 
 becaufe thereby'you come.nearer and nearer ,. 
 r^r^A onfA receive every time freih ailtltance or 
 Ss holy ?pir r nXefoaffuranceofhis love and 
 o the for^ivn;fs, of your paft fins , P^-^ed /ou 
 truly repent, andrefolve to «bey for the ime to 
 come all the commandments of God and the pre. 
 
 ^^^:^i::eKt faid m our c^echifm . that i. i, 
 required of them who come to the Lord s fupper^. 
 
 i 
 
 ;*• 
 
pt^p«" 
 
 --^cin chart N ^^ifT . ' ^^^^^ffn>ra}ice nf i:- ,"i^ 
 
 y "'»..iJaaL "■'"'■ i„d „?,°. >■?"' f'in ; 
 
 '»°ft holy God .f*"^ ''y them vf "'""""'f'on • 
 •^« «vo!d ;:.''J,<= ^'?d mduige t^^ """'^^''on . 
 
 ^^^ heinous 
 
 "^^ 
 
^ fo come to 
 
 
 ^f^ things, 
 ^c way to 
 
 {iicii you 
 
 ^"atio/, . 
 
 'end the 
 ^> is ^/" 
 
 indwiio 
 aui ob- 
 
 ^, for 
 
 ouid 
 fious 
 
 ( 49 ) 
 
 [tiling i in as much as it cftrsmgcs us from Goc!, 
 jjinddcbarrs us from the happincfs which God in< 
 tended for us in the life to come. 
 
 If it were only out of gratitude and love for 
 God, you ought to do all in your power not to 
 fall into fm ; and therefore, as ye are /inncrs be- 
 fore ye came to the Lord's feaft, your repentance 
 fliould be grounded upon that principle, and 
 ftiould be a concern for having grieved the fpir'U 
 of grace y whereby ye are fenled unto the day of re'- 
 demptioH', which St. Paul forbids in Ephcflv. '^o. 
 
 Indeed unlefs you come tjo hate and abhor fiir, 
 for its heinoufnefs fake, more than for the harm 
 it will do you, you cannot be faid to have trur: 
 repentance; and tho' a wicked man when near his 
 death, may be forry to diftradion and madn'efs ; 
 yet m general it is not bccaufe he has finrted that 
 he is fo very forry : For if he could but get well 
 and young again, he would follow the fame finfu! 
 courfe as he has done. He is forry for no other 
 caufe, but that he is going to be called to judg- 
 meat ; and as he thinks there is no room to hope 
 for mercy, he is diilradcd wi^-l- ^ s and horrid 
 cxpedatioHS of a fiery and drcaaful fentence, which 
 he fees no way to efcapc. 
 
 Such forrow is therefore no repentance, and 
 St. Paul well diftingu "lilies it, from that forrow 
 which vgQ fhould feel for our fins, calling thi? 
 a^godly forrowy v^nd i\\QOthQv %wordly f§r row ^ and 
 therefore he fays in 2. Cor. VIL lo. Th:\t god' 
 forrow worketh repentance to falvation, not io be re- 
 pented of', but the forrow of the ZTvrld wtrketh dcdth. 
 
 I 
 
 D 
 
 I hop;i 
 
 4 
 
vh 
 
 , I 
 
 I ho ( 50 ) I 
 
 ^'^<:h Godiv fn,r ^""i" and to oh? • P'^»'= I 
 
 ^° ^°ok baci u^'/^-^^-'f °f d,e Io»'^^ your- I 
 
 «med. y°" »"> aJJ the /;„/ '"^ ° ^"oJJetfl I 
 
 To do this ., '''' "^om- I 
 
 -^S:^4§^^Sa-K/o"^co.nd.. ^ 
 
 Wnded to do th^/ ^°""fns ? Hivl r '"'" and I 
 f God, wh°ch if f°^ ^''g'-on "fee a„d"r'- P-'c- I 
 
 ^■■^d naine of gS • ' ^ "^^^'^ «ade uV'?'^' "'r I 
 ^a.ne or blafni, ° '" a flrVht rfir! /• ^ "'^ the f, i 
 
 «"f«foait.'^7°'-'^an„fr ' ^-S^^'i. prt ~^ "^ 
 "^V'erfworn faJi]„ ;"'' or raft ;. 
 
 P'^ODfifeg 
 
1 
 
 i^^ 
 
 "'"e'i- TJiere- 
 Pfepare your- 
 ^j -'upper, is 
 "d fo recoJiea 
 '" ^'3ve com. 
 
 'our condudl 
 
 '"r God in 
 
 ""''I'P God 
 """ and 
 i^er pre. 
 the glory 
 '^'•ve my 
 ^'^■s. my 
 'f the fa. 
 
 '''> pro. 
 
 ="• taken 
 ■ ra/h i> 
 
 'Sn my 
 
 onjifes 
 
 4 
 
 ( 50 
 
 promlfes which I made by being {worn into Knf 
 office ? Am I guilty of any of thofe fms againft 
 the third commandment ? 
 
 In this manner you miill examine yourielves^ 
 not only upon the ten commandments j but alfo 
 upon all that which is prefcribed in fcripture, and 
 efpecially in the new teil:ament. For Inftancc, it 
 is declared in tire new teltament in feveral places, 
 that no drunkards^ nor rcvilers^ nor extortioners^ 
 nor envierSf nor defrauders^ nor co'vetous^ nor UarSy 
 Jhall inherit the kingdom of heaven. Nowconfidcr 
 your paft lives -, and fee whether you have beetv 
 guilty of any of thefe abominations: And nof 
 only of thefe, but of any thought, word, or deed, 
 jthat is condemned in fcripture as finful. 
 
 When upon fuch careful examination, in which 
 you muil: not be favourable to youvfelves left you 
 fhould leave any fin unrepented for, you find your- 
 felves guilty of any tranfgreffion ; you mufl; then 
 humbly acknowitdge it within your own heart : 
 not endeavouring to make light of it, or to throw 
 the fault and blame upon others, who may have 
 fcduccd or provoked you to fin i but taking it en- 
 tirely upon yourfelves Yo « muft in the next 
 place, confcfs it alfo to God; and if it be an)"* 
 fin againll: your neighbour -, fuch as flandcr, or ca- 
 lumny, or defrauding, or any thing that is hint- 
 f«l or injiirous to him, you muft, if you poiTiblv 
 can, make him full amends, either in makincr re- 
 ftitotion, paying damages, or contradicting what 
 you may have reported to his difadvantage. FoV 
 it would be abfurd to think, thatOod v/ill forgive 
 yolr, v.'hilf you fufFer the evil which you have d. nc 
 
 D 2 to 
 
I I 
 
 i i 
 
 ( S2 ) 
 
 ■A ijd therefore* t ^ T^ '* ™ vervramo,.L- > - 
 
 (9 
 
^ your power 
 
 ^ determine 
 Will be Jed 
 
 niuftatthe 
 3 gface and 
 ^"j and to 
 life. But 
 PPer man- 
 y^nnefs of 
 , yo^i muft 
 'o^eofhis 
 bJood the 
 -^5, which 
 f^i^ed that 
 b fpirit to ^ 
 therefore 
 w, which 
 '^^ giveth 
 ^^ />^^// 
 
 -Apoilie 
 muft be 
 
 ^ iii ihc 
 
 M the 
 w^iiat it 
 
 '/'aith, 
 tiling ; *~ 
 tvhat I 
 
 ^'h^h 
 o/pe/j 
 
 (9 
 
 ( 53 ) 
 
 to !)e fatlsfied with the means of falvatlon which 
 are procured by'the gofpel ; and to be content 
 with, and fubmit to, the conditions which the 
 gofpel impofes upon men. 
 
 If therefore you come to the Lord's fupper, you 
 muft examine whether you have fuch faith as I 
 have now defcribed. But how will you find out 
 whether your faith is of this kind ? You will know 
 it by its fruits. If you have true faith \ that \% 
 if you believe from your hearts thofe things which 
 arc declared in the gofpel, you will find In you 
 fear and love of God, confidence in the faithful- 
 nefs of his promifes, and dread of his judgments ; 
 And this will lead you as the Apoftle exprefles, 
 i.n Hcb. XII. 28. 29. 'Toferve God acceptably, with 
 r ever erne and fear ; for our God is a conJUming fire. 
 If you have true faltk j that is, if you are fatls- 
 fied with the means of falvatlon, which arc pro- 
 cured by the gofpel ; you will endeavour to take 
 advantage of tho- /iieans, which are : ift, true 
 repentance as I k.v w defcribed it and followed by 
 reformation ©f life : 2dly, recourfe to the mercy 
 of God, through the met-Its of our blefTed Sa- 
 viour 1 who by his death and fuflferlngs has pur- 
 chafed that falvatlon for us, which it is not in our 
 power to deferve. If you have true faith*, that 
 is, if you are content with, and fubmit to, thofe 
 conditions which the gofpel requires of fuch as 
 will be faved, to perform •, then you will fulfill 
 thofe conditions, and be truly thankful to God 
 and his fon Jefus Chrift, for admitting you to 
 wDrk your falvatlon, upon fo favourable terms. 
 
 •,v 
 
 D3 
 
 Here 
 
! i\ 
 
 ( 54' ) 
 
 . ^^r^J-e you will enquire- Wl . 
 t'ons ? And here 1 1 ireneT "■' '''='"= «°"du 
 once already, i„ our Saviour' T'" '"''« ^ ^^'^ 
 ^'^e commandments. Math T/y !" ''°'^' '^ Keep 
 y^ be added that »„e of th, n, ' ^^ ^"^ '° 'h'"^ 
 "^■^^'ivauon is to live infh?rft?35 -^--s 
 
 ^c^^r L^"«n;rch^?'^'^ ^"PP- '-^ your 
 ^hen.you prepare for tSe (^r ''' '"'^ '^=^=f°re 
 «amme yourfelves o^ tJa, fc„ ''"fr"- y"" ""* 
 CHAarr V. I i„te„d fully toexl' '"^- . ^^" » 
 of our duties towards our nCvVk ' ^^«"Ifp«k 
 the pnncipal • And indeed £ "J ,' ^°' '^i. is 
 ties towards our fellow creat, 7 '^''°'« "f °ur da. 
 prehended under thelr^e 'f " "?"'' "" ''^ <=°^- 
 
 AH I fliall fay in thts nL ^^''"'y- 
 "^eans that lo4. S ^ ?°" '' ^ "*''''' 
 fe[J^.r '° '"'^«'""" f°r all Ten ' ^°"?»«ded in 
 ^rl 'I'', ?°'^''^^ comman"?; ^^o'' g^^e him. 
 
 Savour fays, is'thefecoTd7r^-!f^' ^^ich our 
 J'ke unto the firft, which" s fl """""^"dment 
 fore .sthis: n.ufia^lovel^r.Vf'^^o^''^^- 
 M thy heart, and ■with all tlLrf''^"'y God with 
 TJ- And our Saviou l^-Jl "f/-'^-//^ - 
 thefe, concludes hy fay „f nP"^'"^ '^ ^oth 
 Mandmenls banz all th, // ^ '. °* 'V' /wa «m 
 
 'y a^ y«"°o;e%uS«rr;dt'V.^' *^"^'- 
 
 - * "* "^'Poiition which 
 
 God 
 
'hefe CondU 
 
 And to this 
 
 conditions 
 
 'men. 
 
 per if your 
 
 i therefore 
 
 you muft 
 
 What is 
 
 e^ I ipcak 
 ^or this is 
 5f our du- 
 ll be com- 
 
 is that 7t 
 landed in 
 :ave him- 
 
 '^ich our 
 
 andnient 
 you be. 
 (rod with 
 'h all thy « 
 of both 
 '■vo com- 
 s : See 
 
 heartf- 
 
 i which 
 
 God 
 
 ( 55 ) 
 
 IGod requires of you, indeed at all times •, but 
 fmoft efpecially, when you come to the facrcd feaft 
 fof the communion to the body and blood of hiti 
 fon Jefus Chrift : And cerfainly nothing is more 
 rcafonable. God is father to others as well as to 
 yourfelves •, and th-erefore, it cannot pleafa him 
 if you love not your brethren who are his chil- 
 dren : Jefus Chrift is the Saviour of others as well 
 as of yourfelves -, and therefore it will not pleafe 
 Irim, that you love not thofe whom he has re- 
 deemed, and whom he calls his own : The Holy 
 Ghoft give4 grac<^ to others, as well as to your* 
 felves ; and therefore itv/iWgrUve him if you love 
 riot thofe in this world wkh whom if ye are to 
 be faved, you muft live in heaven for ever, in 
 unity, fellowfhip and love. 
 
 ■ When by fuch a preparation as I have pointed 
 out to vou, you have fitted yourfelves fof receiv- 
 ing the body and blood of Chrift , you fna)' hope 
 to reap from your partaking of that bkffed fa- 
 crament, all the advantages and benefits which 
 by the goodnefs of God it is intended to afford :; 
 But if you negled it, and for want of a proper 
 preparation come to the facrament, and of cotirfe, 
 c^t of that bread and drink of that cup unworthily, 
 then as St. Paul fays, you become guilty of the 
 - My and blood of the Lord : But as the Apoftle con- 
 tinues, kt a man emmine himfelf and fe let him eat 
 of that bread and drink of that cup s for he that eat etb 
 mi drintitb umort^ily ; ^^t^i^^ ^nd ^^^^^-^^'^'^^^^^ 
 
 I 
 
:i 
 
 
 ( S6 ) 
 
 '^ ^y a due nrl ^-"""^^^^ .' Take r! ^^ S^''^^^ ! 
 However^ 7'''''°"- '" '° ^^^^'^f 
 
 ^o Service f^' ^°" '""^ obfervp fh . • ' 
 
 your former fi^' y"" 'urn bact 7a ' '"PPer , 
 to the wTof"^ "Z ^° ^"ycourfe th,r •"'"^'^^ *<> < 
 
 Promifed o^,V° '""'g^^'i aga^ after T ■ ''^ ""= « 
 
 come to the r " " 'o. your hi-ft '^ """^ "ot 
 '■"dulge ifa 5' t "1^«. ^nd that 1'"'^ '^ "°' W 
 
 different wav "' V ^""''l ^^ onl Jl^"'^ ''^ "» 
 
 2\°f your";e\5ou:r;-^'^ *' yil,^--^ to 
 
 ''o " in amS Lt'^^-g^ o^^hat fc !)"'" 
 "y 5 but th/s does ^L °"^y °^^^ facred , i^ ^ ^°" 
 
 '" a manner b^^Vt; «"d d&tf-''"'^ '^^'^ •• 
 anrl <• ' 'ome therph,, ^ ^J"'y of Ood . ,„ 
 
 r uges of your faj. 
 
 / i-i 
 
 Te 
 
^^^^ care to /vo7d 
 
 '^ t^at is contrarvr 
 ^^^'•^«;ent, every 
 ?^ .and renew aft 
 J. ^t would be a 
 fter having thus 
 ' ^^gftteous and 
 y^'^mn^ not 
 ^t ^ay is not to' 
 r" «jay th^^ 
 
 : 1^°"^-^ be no 
 >^^^ to heJJ a 
 "^ to come to 
 ^*" • This is 
 f^^'-e, it will 
 
 ^^ a ceremo-' 
 ^ that dufy . 
 
 ^fCod. to 
 
 J^egiance ; 
 
 ^o^givenc/si 
 ^^ your fai. 
 
 ( 57 ) 
 
 To conclude what I have to fay upon religious 
 duties, I muft give you the fame charge which St. 
 Paul giveth in Hcb. XVI. 2|. not to forfake the af^ 
 femhling of yoUr f elves together in holy convocation 
 in the houfe of God j there to pray, to praife and 
 worftiip him, to give thankis, to hear his word, and 
 to receive pftrudlion frpm your rcfpedlive mini- 
 fters ; and'^o this, you have a great encourage- 
 ment, in this promife which our blcffed Saviour 
 has made to all faitliful chriftians, in Mat. XVIIF. 
 20. Where two or three are gathered together in my 
 name^ there I am in the midfl of them. You will 
 therefore be very much to blame, if you negledl: 
 earning as freqruently as poffible into the compa- 
 ny of your Redeemer : And moreover, God will 
 call you to account for negleding fo great an ho- 
 nour and advantage, whereby you may be ftrenght- 
 encd and forwarded in the work of your falvation, 
 if you make i, good ufc of thbfe opportunities, 
 which you haVito mttx together in the prefence 
 of God. 
 
 ''W»^^~*^eJ^ 
 
 * I- 
 
 To 
 
 PAST 
 
( 68 ) 
 
 9f mral DUTIES 
 
 ,^J^^SE are ^// 
 
 ^1 
 
 <i 
 
 i I 
 
 XHM 
 
( 59 ) 
 
 Es. 
 
 erefore jf 
 
 fecofid 
 given 
 
 S 
 
 sir* 
 
 THE 
 
 SECOND TABLE. 
 
 V. 
 
 38C Honour they father and thv mother : that thf days M 
 
 ^ may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God ^ 
 
 ^ givcththce. " ^ 
 
 VI. ^ 
 
 n 
 
 Thou (halt not kill. 
 
 vii. 
 
 Thou fhalt not commit adultery. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Thou (halt not fteal. 
 
 IX. 
 
 ^ Thou (lialt not bear fai<fe witnefs againft thy neigh- 
 
 ^ bour. 
 
 1^ X. 
 
 K Thou (halt not cuvet thy neighbour's houfe, thou ^ 
 
 see Ihalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man f er- ^ 
 
 W, vant, nor his maid fervant, nor his ox, nor his afs, ^ 
 
 5S nox any thing that is thy neighbour's. « 
 
 
 ^1 
 
It 
 
 Th. 
 
 ( Co ) 
 
 ThUl wiHo °d-C ''V" ScHf T'"^ 
 <»'«'•, doX "'^ creatures . ,^"'*"'ns> to worfc 
 
 f^y do not obey tt /? 'Y" °^-" /el ves^T' = 
 P^-ft to be five; "°^ °^'y ''>e gorier"'*"'*' « ' 
 
 f^e fecond tabic 
 
 ^" "COMMANDMENT 
 honour thv fnth.^ , ■* c. i\ j^. 
 
 /owtong, governors .„.'^"f/"b ""o^e 
 
 ^o^ard.7;;;°;-ds your pa'rT^;™' a,";' T' 
 
 ward* 
 
*^i's fecond 
 ^>i(! another ' 
 'law, Por 
 foalt Hot kill^ 
 
 I'lf^'Love 
 '-ove is the 
 
 ^^^m the 
 '^> and af 
 of ]ove. 
 ^tbediT- 
 to wor/c 
 
 ^ more- 
 power ; 
 
 nds it : 
 
 lot ex- 
 5rf by 
 
 tabic 
 
 nly 
 ofe 
 to* 
 
 ( 6i ) 
 
 wards yout maftcrs, ^vhcn you are engagea In any 
 fervice, and towards your fpiritual headers, the 
 m'nifte;s of Chrift. For all theie niay be faid to 
 be your fathers in one fcnfe or another. 
 
 I Your natural parents, your own fathers and 
 mothers, you are here comn>anded to love, honi)ur 
 
 and fuccour. . , 
 
 To love them in return of the love they hear you 
 is but natural •, and there is no call to fav any more 
 on this duty/than this: The child who loveth 
 not his parents, i. an ungrateful v.Uam, and a 
 diferace upon mankind. 
 
 II To honour them, is at all times to {he* 
 thenl that veneration, which they are doubly en- 
 titled to from you ; that is to fay, on account both 
 of their years, and of their relation to you : It ir. 
 alfo, to be obedient to them in your youth : and 
 dll Ihat term is come, which the law has appomted 
 for your becoming your own matters 1 .11 then 
 you cannot without a great fin, refift or d.fobey 
 vour fathers or mother's command ; provided they 
 command vou nothing contrary to your duty to 
 God, or your allegiance to your fovere.gn. If your 
 mrents were to command you any thing finful •. 
 • FuTfor inftance, as ftealing •. or to ^-^ conmry 
 to the laws of that country you hve in •, you ought 
 certainly not to obey them : And in fuel, cafts, 
 rremonftrate to the'm, re-fpeafully howev" as 
 Peter and John to the Jewifh magiftra es who 
 forbade them preaching the gofpel: '^"^^'-^ I' 
 
I. 
 
 r^iht 
 
 Oita n^j . 
 
 f5a; 
 
 >bm u„LU%''' "f God ,„ , 
 
 .b/d'"" g^-^'-^r dui':''^' '^^« .^ no'^-r^"' -Z'^;' 
 
 
 H'ilc 
 
 4 .;,L ""^^^= and nLr ^'^«n you ¥ >'°u 
 
 ■ "'^« "f parent, i?./°;; 'Peafe;„„ ,,. ^ 
 
 tftofe 
 
 ( 
 
unto 
 
 
 ^'' ^bat feu 
 
 nd 
 
 5^^'tain. 
 
 ^^ ^^y, de, 
 
 ^^ ^'htn 
 ''J* chi/d, 
 ^^<?ci for 
 
 ^s you 
 maice 
 ^ fxxL 
 y mo^ 
 
 y of 
 
 and 
 
 ( 63 ) 
 
 thofc are to love them, to provide for them the 
 nccefriirles of life, and to give them a good edu- 
 cation. 
 
 I ft. Love in parents is very natural, and there 
 is no great occafion to recommend it •, but as it is 
 natural blind and cxcefTive, it needs much to be 
 direded and reftrained. Many and many, are 
 'thofc parents who love their children, to their 
 ruin and deftrudion. Their love will not let 
 them curb the wilfulnefs of infancy ; and thus 
 they fuffer their children to grow ftubborn and 
 obftinate : Which difpofitions muft afterwards 
 be broken by the hard ftrokes of adverfity, dif- 
 trefs, niifery, and often fhameful death. And 
 that, which a lafh of the rod, might have correaei 
 in infancy, often caufeth the migiecf-d child to 
 die, either on a gibbet, or on a dungh U. 
 
 Coriedlions therefore, are very ucceiT- ry ; they 
 are a proof of true and reafonable - ;vc in the pa- 
 rents towiirds their children. Salomon fays in Piov. 
 XIII. 24. Hv that fpctrdh his rod^ hatelhhisfon\ hut 
 he that loveth bim, chafteneih him betimes. And he 
 further ftrongly recommends it, inch. XXIII. 12. 
 14. JVitbdld not corresiioH from the chUd -, for if thou 
 heat eft him with the rod^ he Jh all not die : Thou flo alt 
 heat him with the rod, and /halt deliver his foul from 
 hell. If you wifti your children may come tofal- 
 vation ; if you love them enough, to fear more 
 their going to hell, than their fulfering a little 
 harm by the rod -, then you will, as it is your du- 
 ty commanded in fcripture, by proper chaftife- 
 mcnt reform their evil difpofitions, before they 
 are come to any degree of hardnefs/ 
 
 2r Pa- 
 
II' 
 
 In 
 
 u 
 
 < ^4 ) 
 
 \h-n an infix i T 1 ?f '*^/«>^f S .f ^' f 
 
 »«k;ng either .^ " °^'^" '"dangereH / ?«'"^^^« 
 and feco "dJ V to T"^ °f '•'"P "oil n ''^ .^^"■Jdren 
 
 5- But tile m • '^^^""•es^ ^""ftian re- 
 
 wardstheii-rVM"^"''«^'''e/dutv ^<- 
 cation T!,^i''^'"' '« toeive7l, ^ P'^«t« tO- 
 
 "•)' ever b^e ahl. . * ^""^ "" you evn i'"?^'= i and 
 "d or infirm B?r'/'*^°« ^^^ "n v?'? '^t' '^^Y 
 "P. and te,S," th '*"' '^y°u do il.V''' ^'^^^'ne 
 
 «'" foon withA ''^atii. You "'n"]" untimely 
 
 ^^^-by ti: ;";':-. «>i^r to- c-°"!f ' -^° f"-"d 
 
 acomfoftabJe l?u T L^ ^"abJed to «1 T ^««'«. 
 
 - ''"^. « to q«aiir/y^;W 
 
 4ren 
 
'f» fo provide 
 , ^^i lays ; /f 
 
 ^>^ ^lo/e if 
 
 » ^^^e their 
 
 moderation, 
 ^^e fuJJ of 
 
 fo preferve 
 ^y.jjiiiidrcn 
 "fj/Iiment • 
 ^^^ to ufe 
 aiiovvanoe 
 5 Without 
 ^^'^ian re- 
 gents to- 
 ?ood edci- 
 es. F/^ 
 
 ^^n their 
 [^^i and 
 ^at they 
 
 ^<^comc 
 ? theun 
 ^w idic 
 [_^tinieiy 
 'ore be- 
 ord to 
 o bind 
 
 ^and 
 
 finci. 
 
 chiJ. 
 
 dreu 
 
 ( 65 ) 
 
 dren for- the kingdom of heaven, m which, vvhaj 
 I have juft now mentioned will be of a great fcr- 
 vice. And the right method to fucceed in this, 
 is to bring them up religiouily •, to teach them to 
 pray as foon as they can fpeak, and to underftand 
 the meaning of their prayers, as foon as they are 
 able i in order that they may pray God from their 
 hearts, as well as from their lips. You ought to 
 ufe them to read the word of God, to attend di- 
 vine fervice in the houfe of God j and there, ^ to 
 give their attention to what is faid t^- the mlni- 
 fters, in order that they receive inftrudlion thereby.' 
 In ihort, you ought to give your children as far* 
 as you are able all kind of pious inftrudlions. But 
 nbove all, remember that all this will be of no 
 fe-vice to them, for aught you can do ; except 
 you give them aifo, GOOD EXAMPLES. 
 
 II. The duties which you owe to your king^ 
 and all that are put in authority under him, arc 
 alfo comprehended in the fifth commandment; 
 becaufe thefc, are in one fcnfe your fathers. You 
 owe allegiance to your fovereign ; refpedt to thofe 
 perlbns whorcprefent him, ♦fuch as governors and 
 ^nagiftratss •, obedience to the laws under whofe 
 protedion you live^ and the payment of fuch ini- 
 pofts and tax2S as arc .lawfully required of you. 
 There is an abfurd notion, which betray many 
 people to a breach of their duties to fuperiors. 
 Xhey think that becaufe they live in a land of li- 
 berty, they may do any t^l^ing w.ha^foeysr that k 
 pleafes themjpjdq: ,X,hey mifta^ke l^fn^iqufnefs, 
 which is a 4i^ and a cqrfe, forlib^ty^^whi^AS a 
 t)l«irwigi,,**ifi they look upon thejuil ana-^lc^aj 
 y,.,/ ' ' " E ' 'cxe;tioa 
 
 iU 
 
 ^i>*% 
 
r^^fi 
 
 r If ,•: 
 
 
 fap. 
 ./e 
 
 fo your °"-. ^'^S;. r^ ^^eir ;;f ^^^mentj 
 ofG^^ "'"fGod- lU^'^ posters e ^" ^ferv 
 
 ^ honour Rom vfrr"'«'W,lC Z"^*'. 
 
'' ^^^'^ right 
 
 foexce/Tes. 
 '1'"^^ and 
 
 ' ^ut if 
 
 oth evil, 
 ^f^ pay 
 
 ^ due^ 
 
 ( ^7 ) 
 
 *nd yoa ought to cor^fider them, as of indlfnen. 
 fible obhgatioii, as fome of thofe conditions which 
 you muft fubmit to and f ulfiJJ, if you wifti .o be 
 wved. 
 
 III. Likewife the duties of fe rvants fo their 
 maftcrs and mrftrefTcs, which are alfo in fome rc- 
 fpea their fathers and mothers, are cnjo ined in 
 the fifth commandment. 
 
 Servants owe to their maftcrs refpear, fidelity 
 and obedience. All thefe are commanded in fcrip- 
 ture by St. Paul who faith : Let as manyfervanU 
 as are under the yoke, count their own maflers worthy 
 of all honour, i. Tim. VI. i. Exhort ferv ants to 
 be oledient to their own mafters, and to pleafe them 
 well in all things-, not anfwering again ; not purloin- 
 ingy hut flyewing all good fidelity^ Titus II. 9. 10. 
 Servants obey in all thkngs your majiers according' to 
 thefiejh 1 mt with eye fervice, as men pleafers, but 
 tnfmglenefi of heart'f earing God, Col. III. 22. And 
 to thefe duties, fcrvants are obliged not only to* 
 wards good mafters ; but alfo to fuch as are in- 
 d?fFerent, as long as they rcm-= vin their fervice, 
 according to this charge given uy St. Peter : Ser- 
 vants be fuhjeSi to your majters, with all fear ; n^t 
 ^ly ta the good and gentle^ but alfo to the froward^ 
 I. Peter H. 18. 
 
 As to fuch among you as keep fervants, I muft 
 filfo tell them, what are the duties of mafters to- 
 wards their fervants. They ought to ufc thcni 
 with humanity and gentle manners 5 to pay them 
 - •■ E 2. a reafun- 
 
r . l^'^'^ duties^ ^°d, '"'dofb.U ^^^ and the 
 
 , t ^« fo vo,rrJ. ^^W' ofliiP I ^ '° f'le Word 
 i!''?^" ^fte S^''«. towards :'' ^°" ''Ve°? 
 
 h 
 
 P^**- 
 
?. '^^^ care of 
 ^'!^^ ^"d the 
 
 ^^/ervants 
 
 Coi. jv. * 
 
 ° f^e Word 
 'o« i/ve fn. 
 
 ^^« your 
 
 ^^» you 
 
 ^^^' St. 
 
 '^i and 
 
 Work's 
 e fays ; 
 
 ^ 'Word' 
 
 >////, * 
 To*' 
 
 VOfd^ 
 
 ( 69 ) 
 
 'contmimica'te unto him that teacbetk, all good thitigi^ 
 Gal. VI. 6. And lailly to the Corinthians : Do 
 ye not know that they which minifier about holy things^ 
 live of the things of the temple ? and they which wai^t 
 lit the altar, are partakers with the altar ? Even fo 
 the Lord has ordained, that they which preach the 
 gofpel, fhould live of the go f pel, i. Cor. IX.. 13. 14. 
 You fee from thefe paflages of fcripture^ that 
 you owe to your minifters, efteem and love ; hon- 
 our and reverence \ obedience and fubmifTion ; 
 communication of good things, and provifion for 
 the ncceflaries of life. However, I will conclude, 
 in the fame words with St. Paul : / have ufed none 
 of thefe things ; neither have I written thefe things, 
 that it fhould be fo done unto me. For it were better 
 for me to die, than that any man fhould make my glory 
 void, I. Cor. IX. 15. And my glory m this re- 
 fpedl is, that being (and I blefs and thank my God 
 for it) provided for, otherwife ; what I have faid 
 on this fubjcd, is only to difcharge my duty, 
 which obliges me to lay down before you, every 
 part of your own. 
 
 SIXTFI Commandment, 
 
 Thou fljalt not kill. 
 It is not the very adt of killing only, that is here 
 forbidden j it is alfo, all fuch thoughts, expref- 
 fion», and adions, which may contribute to the 
 taking away or endangering of other people's 
 lives ; to do tiiem any harm whatfoevcr, or even 
 to wifh fot their death or prepare the way to it. 
 J ; E 3 Hatred, 
 
 W'^^«aHp|BW*^ 
 
^l 
 
 I'- 
 
 ll 
 
 H (70) 
 
 S r^^ Which S^e.f''^^ of ,^7'»5"dme« . 
 
 t '■i*l Vows- OM^ ^ ^f thnC » ""^*a fo e^i/^Z, 
 
 t^J- 
 
 tua. 
 
 ■•^''» -*• -Peter Ji/.V -^^f t^/W, 
 
 ^' Tiiej-efoi-p 
 
 b^^-*,>jv:V-: 
 
^ /if > ^M ye 
 
 ery. 
 
 ent. 
 
 'f ^-s and 
 Pm of 
 
 part 
 
 in the 
 
 ^ /no. 
 
 kith : 
 forp 
 
 ( 71 ) 
 
 all kind of illufage, and beating is a tranrgixliion 
 of your duty towards your wives j whom you 
 fhould on the contrary endeavour tp reclaim when 
 they arc vicious, by patience, forbearance and 
 good words : Without however, indulging, their 
 wicked difpofitions ^ but reprefcnting to them 
 ftrongly both the fmfulnefs of their failings, and 
 the evil confequences of them i not only in re- 
 gard to their quiet and eafe in this life^ but ilfo 
 in reipe .^i to their falvation, which is greatly ei;- 
 dang^rc d thereby -, and which they will entirely 
 tbridt i > the end> unlefs they repent and reform. 
 You mule alfo giye toyour wives good advices and 
 good examples, iri regard to godJ[Inefs and th«f 
 prac5lic? of all chriftian virtues : And finally, you 
 oughf; to provide for them all necefTaries, not in • 
 dulgmg yourfclves in excefTes a broad, while they 
 are in want at home, as but too many hufbands 
 wickedly do •, but keeping them decently accord- 
 ing to your circur^ftances and your ftation in life* 
 
 Wives on their fide, oWe to tfheir hufbands r^« 
 fpe(5l and fajbmiflion. St. Paul faith i Tf^ives fub- 
 mit yourfelves unto your hiijbancls^ as unto the Lord, 
 Eph. V. 22. Suffer not a woman to teach, nor to 
 Mjurp authority oyer the man, i. Tim. II. 12. And 
 St. Peter gives them this charge, Te wives be in 
 fuhjeSfion to your own hujbams^ i. Pet. III. i. 
 Therefore thofe wives, who in oppofition to thofc 
 paflages of fcripture, refufe, to fubmit to their 
 hufbands and to be ruled by them •, who ufurp 
 authority over the man : And much more, thofe 
 ^vIvo make ijfe of opprobrious langyage, of inful- 
 
 ' E 4 " ting 
 
f ■^■/ 
 
 ( ^2 ; 
 
 *i*ig and violent f>^T,„ • 
 
 »re, not only f^ll ™'^''' "bove a^ conTro ="■ 
 made to /a J ' i ',° '^e"" proni ifes il l °"' > 
 
 «hevartm„ •'"""^'^ * th them ;„ ^ i ^"^a'>ds, 
 tion which m r ? ' ^^^ deferve fl . j^' ^"^)' 
 
 •E 1 G H T r' 
 
 'and have ^.^J , ^^^'c'l criries Z.T ' ''"^^- 
 fins, which °'l"u' P""'1"^enrth^! ''^' "^ ^^e 
 
 ^avantafreortJ,^-^ ^good one • «- u ^^"cr oy 
 
 y ^'auduJous meafuremen^ 
 
 weight 
 
 ■*****i»Kr-; 
 
-arry thelv 
 controul ; 
 ^ich they 
 
 tch, thoy 
 dainna- 
 ainft all 
 tain lot, 
 
 >mf/?ive 
 ^erence, 
 
 'hiev- 
 
 other 
 rbid. 
 I un- 
 Jr of 
 
 * by 
 ing 
 ce, 
 or 
 of 
 by 
 
 it 
 
 ( 73 ) 
 
 Nveight or tale ; or by giving bad or light money 
 knowing it to be fo j or in Ihort, by any means 
 which they would not chufe to lay open to thofe 
 they have dealing with. For if you deal fairly 
 and honeftly with your neighbour, you will never 
 be afraid to open to ]piim aU circumftanccs what- 
 foever, that may affed the bargain. And you 
 muft not fay, that every one muft take care of his 
 own intereft j thut it is your neighbour's fault if 
 he fuffers himfclf to be impofed upon •, that he 
 ought to be judge of the quality of thofe things 
 he buys and fells, and look, himfelf to the mealur- 
 ing or weighing* ' All thefe reafons are good 
 enough, if you fupppfe you live in a common 
 wealth made up entirely of rogues and thieves ; 
 but not among chriftians. And tho* that do^rine, 
 if you follow ity may in fome fort make you rich 
 in this world, it will moft furely make you wret- 
 ched in the next ; for it is an abominable wicked- 
 nefs, contrary not only to the eight command- 
 ment j but alfo to feveral other palTages of .fcrip- 
 ture. God faith in Leviticus XIX. 35. Toufialt 
 do no unrigbUoufnefs in judgment^ in meteyard, in 
 weight or in meafure. In chap. XXV. 14. If 
 thou felleft ought unto thy neighbour^ or buyed might 
 of thy neighbour'' s hand, ye fhall not ofprefi one ano- 
 ther. And in Deut. XXV. 16. All they that do 
 unrighteoufly, are an abomination to' the Lord. Where- 
 fore, the Prophet threatens thofe who are guilty 
 * ■ of fuch wickednefs : iVo unto him who huildeth his 
 Jpoufe by unrighteoufnefs^ and his chambers by wrong; 
 who ufeth his neighbour's fervite without wages. Jcr. 
 
 .^^"•'^- NINTH 
 
I'S 
 
 ,/■*' 
 
 ( U ) 
 
 ^"<= parties , '''"f^. in orw ^'^' «''" evr, "' 
 
 -;i^t?;^^£"5tt^::P 
 
 '" vain, iiX°''. ^'•■^'•^by t;fc-"'^^°n4, fn/" " 
 ^ ^"f tftere are n.u °'''°«s degree "«""= 
 
 r^'»^« that A V /^^'^'''^ed. r/ ''"/"'"ernrp* 
 
 T'h»i 
 
 i 
 
|ndmei 
 
 injured /),,.,„„ 
 
 /". your duty 
 .f^'es cd„. 
 
 "^ f "t upon 
 
 « ''••ft, 4 .- 
 ">'• aper- 
 •''^'* name 
 
 •»anigrer- 
 '"' f'lere. 
 eWi re. 
 'd flan, 
 ■ ''"pre. 
 '■'■e de. • 
 Lort 
 
 KI. 8. 
 
 ( 75 ) 
 
 That allliarifiall have their fart in the lake whui 
 hinielb taith /ire and. brimjime. 
 
 As to flandering j that is, fpreading your neiVh 
 bour-s faults, and publirhing jiis fin,^ without S 
 Jng called thereto by lawful authority, it is all --or 
 bidden m fcnpture and declared to te a nn ^. .,4 
 fliall Uring damnation upon them who fall into it 
 
 dom.Tcnr' J?**?,f ''•^>««»^' inherit the kin^ 
 dom6fGo,l , tor. VI, ,o. God faith to his peo- 
 ple in Levit. XIX. .6. thou Jhalt not go JL 
 d»wnasa talebearer among thy p,oj,le. And St 
 
 ren Jame. IV. ii. Kmg David fpeak thu~ in Pf 
 
 i^' Ji: /f'',,™'*'' J^"" "bide in thy tahernacU ? 
 m» (haU dwell in thy holy hill, then anfweri„E he 
 '«th, V. i. He that baMiteth not ■mith hit toWut 
 
 Z.ZT'"- iii '"'i^b'""-' "'^ "*ksth up a rej,rLt 
 iig»iaft hts neighbour. r ""'■'' 
 
 Do pray, gt aifd read the whole Pfalm. 
 
 _., J^ E N T H Commandment, 
 
 Th", %altnot cov.'. thy neighbour's Hcufe, thou Jhalt 
 nn covet thy nei^ -hour', ^,fe, nor hitman feri an, 
 nor bis ".iidfervant^norhisox nor his afs nor 
 any thing that Vs th neighbour's. ' 
 
 ,J°'^f'"'°{f°'^--i<="- wifh for any thing 
 th, belongeth to your „t., hour, when you caf 
 get .t from h>m by a fair bargin, and with his free 
 choice and confent : but there are things, that he 
 
 T.oT^"l ^'l'^' '■"'''»* ^ ^'f''' »"d there 
 Me otiers, that he my not chufe to fparc : And 
 
 thfere- 
 
 %. 
 
U ! 'I 
 
 I; ) 
 
 tjiereforc, you i^. 
 
 ^^«t yourZl,' "°^ *° covet f/,„r 
 
 T '''« a„; ^C "i ", cwet;„. tf A'"* .''•« com. 
 ;^o"g /«. ^"^ v!/i,V>'. ''"mbc s .t'"/«''<=r 
 
 '^'^^ f"m total ^r ~^"~' 
 
 ^■■•^^Uies, which ? , '"■ '^'ties towa.w 
 
 , Jf- JUSTICE i> V """"ended ;„ .f ""^ Pofi- 
 J"ft debts. tomV'r^'"='obJie„.^f'' '" "U their 
 
 «"d '■atisf.cttri'^r ^^'^«ed ou" off"^'' « you 
 >ve hurted or rfi '^!P'"-«io„, to !h / ">' """g ^ 
 ^ocv-er. citiil° °"^ ''^nj-ige to • °'* >'«" nia/ 
 
^*». nchhtr to 
 ""^'Shbout be. 
 
 I'^Py^ ad. 
 '^ /^^is com. 
 
 " ^fom the 
 ' compre. 
 
 afe poCu 
 
 Sofpcl. 
 ^^ their 
 oay your 
 1 as you 
 
 ^" may 
 
 nianncf 
 ^tainjy, 
 
 ^» you 
 
 »ve no 
 fation ^ 
 ive of 
 >ueof 
 
 ( 77 ) 
 
 II. EqurTv, Our faviour recomnKnds It In 
 Mat. VII. 12. All things zvl-itfocver^ vo wou!d that 
 nun /}j$uld do to you, do even fo t9 them i for this is 
 the Liu and prophets. 
 
 This dutyconfiils, in not ftanding fomuch upon' 
 our own right, when by Infixing upon it our neigh- 
 bour would be hurted more than we can be, by 
 giving up our own right. For inftance. 
 
 Your neighbour I will fuppofe, owes you afum 
 of money : You have certainly a right to demand 
 iti and eveh, to compel him by lawful means to 
 part with all he has, in order that you may be 
 paid. But if you were in his cafe, if you were 
 his debtor and he your creditor, and \(you were 
 unable to pay him ; would you like that he would 
 come with a writ of execution, and take a bufhel 
 of grain that you want to keep you and your fa- 
 rally from ftarving, or your cattle, or your bed 
 and fuch other neceflliries of life ? I am fure yoii 
 would think it very hard, if any creditor were to 
 deal fo unmercifully vvith you ; efpecially, if that 
 creditor could wait for his money or forgive the 
 debt, without being himfelfdiflrefTed. Therefore 
 you ought to deal with your neighbour, when he 
 IS m your debt, and not able to pay, with the fame 
 mercy that you would wifh fhoiild be ufed towards' 
 you, were his cafe your own. I would have you ' 
 read on this fubjed the eighteenth Chapter of St. 
 Mathew's gofpel from the 23d verfe to the end of 
 the chapter : And there you will fee the confe- , 
 quences of not doing unto others in this refped, as 
 you would hnve them do unto you. '"-^ 
 
 P . . . . ' - '-D 
 
 la 
 
*^> 
 
 ( 78 ) 
 Tn all deaJintfs with oth,, ~ 
 ye look for falvation, to confiH"' I°" '"'Sht, if 
 
 ^an your neighbour fliouid r.ff/ ' '"''' ''«''««■ 
 ♦h.s obliges you lifcew fe ^ f"ff^r a greater. And 
 
 •re not certainly to make il r ,r" "'""'• ^ou 
 f her,: Butyo„ougSv/hf /P''°^ '° ^"■•'■=^ 
 to divide it with he that L„' ' '' °^ '"'''"* 
 
 And our SaWour himk) ft '^'"- P^ov. III. ^g. 
 
 ■f^-'l' of thee, aJfrZtlfblf '' f/f '" ''"" '^- 
 
 f 5'^r'ast?hr -^^^ 
 
 equity, while it is com Li ^^^^' « » duty of 
 'h« is a miftake ^^tV^t^ '=''"'^- B" 
 "t/ > tho' it mavr h. ^ ^ " ''''' P°°'- is not chJ 
 
 f^ be ab,e to^derftanT Thflf^''^' ^ t" 
 you what charity is. Therrf ^ ''°'"« ^^ '«" 
 "ilyourfelvescharia!,leDe^±"J°" «"ft "ot 
 ^nd then give a little maK'tS'""'^ y°" "°>^ 
 do u. that nothing more if vn?. !?* J'"**""' "^o" 
 than you would have other77„ " """ »' """^h. 
 *;e^J "> want : and then I a„ . ""-^ y"" 'fyo" 
 thmfc yourfelves eiU S bv It"''" J^°" ^°"W 
 ft^nce from thofe that We i^ '^^S "> 'i'me affi- 
 « "for that reafon that I ca I ft. , !f "^""^V- ^nd 
 , ni. Charitv is fom-i; ^ » duty of equity, 
 fove which you ought S ha 'e ""T ^ ^* " thJ 
 and which is fo muf h re^o "5' ^"^ ^he other 
 ^^'i faid to his SeTS xli" '•••'>'"-■■ 
 
ou onghf, if 
 ,at It IS right 
 ■evil, rather 
 reater. And 
 I out of your 
 vant. You 
 >r to enrich 
 
 bit of bread 
 ^^is, fcrip, 
 
 io and corns' 
 
 V. ni. 28. 
 
 row oftbee^ 
 
 rcpr.cfent 
 a duty of 
 
 •^*ty. But 
 
 s not cha. 
 
 y» as you 
 
 ^e to tell 
 
 fi^uft not 
 you now 
 
 r. You 
 
 « much, 
 
 >u if you 
 
 »u would 
 me afl?. 
 er. And 
 f'^Jquity. 
 - IS that 
 p other 
 'pturc .• 
 . Thoti 
 Jfoali 
 
 ( n ) 
 
 /)<?// &t'^ thy neighbour tti ihy ^elf. A nd our Saviour 
 fays, that this is th« feoond commandment, like 
 unto the firft which enjoyns the love of God, and 
 that OM thefe two^ han^ all tb^ law and the prophets^ 
 Mat. XXII. 40. Wherefore he himfelf com. 
 mands it ftrongly, and calls it his own command- 
 ment; And a new commandment : A new com-* 
 mandmeHt I give unto you^ that ye love one another^ 
 John XIII. 34. ^his k my commandment^ that ye love 
 cm another as I have loved you, John XV. 12. 
 
 This love of ^ur neighbour is ftrongly recom- 
 mended by the name of charity. St. Peter faith : 
 Above all things have fervent charity among your-, 
 [elves. I. Pet. IV. 8. And St. Paul : The end of 
 commandtnent is charity, i. Tim. II. 15. Let all your 
 things be done with charity: i Cor. XVI. 14. 
 
 The better to be convinced, how neceifary for 
 falvation it is to hftve charity ; and alfo to know 
 what is charity, and how excellent a virtue it \% 
 beyond all others •, you muft read before you go 
 any further, out of your own bible, the thirteenth 
 chapter of the firft epiftle of St. Paul to the Co- 
 rinthiins : And thjre you will find a noble and 
 beautiful defcription of charity t I wi(h you would 
 learn that chapter by heart i it is not a long one. 
 
 Now you have read it, I fuppofe • And you hare 
 '*feen amongft other charaacr«i of charity, that it 
 hear eth all things, tmdurethalUhings, and never faiL 
 "fth. Whereby ye fee, that you ought to live in 
 charity j that is, to love, and ^o good even to 
 thofc that itfc you ill and hate you. Hatred for 
 
 your 
 
( 8o) 
 
 Our Saviou • ^xvS a •'"""■ 
 commends the coES "■"' '^'^''' ^"^ re- 
 
 Mat. V. 44. ■/^"C^"'^^ "/'J-^" oW /^//.««, you 
 
 '^ngs for curfetjood C:" °"^ ^V«'«d, blef! 
 «ge the wicked in their llfr ' '"^^ "'"'' *» •"Wu. 
 Suppofing it to h?f " "'^S* ='^y°«- 
 
 «'''toX thfotn°«o heiirn'^ " "°^ "^^ ''^'•der 
 
 and tiius to Jet the H^ • 1 L ^ '•'"""^'^ ^or ever . 
 
 and fure it is rl, . "'' '"*"« ''■« will of vo!, J 
 
 t'>ere tv^o ha;dfc°r "'' '''"'= '° '>"r Ve" of 
 
 "niefs you forgSli vtr ene:""'''^" '°'''^'^-> 
 
 a" the happinefs. and do Jhem r ^°" "'^ ">«« 
 er, ail the good, which „.^''^"'""'y°">-pow- 
 
 ? ''"t ... a,, truly and as fin^. ' ''""Z °^"ftives : 
 happinefs of the bleffed w" T" . ^" ^"^'" 'he 
 ove, whichtheymufth-fii,^ '.'" *hat very 
 his fon. and all thSifi^d^/'^^ ^"^ """^ ''"d 
 you be i5t to enjoy fuch h * "5' ' ^"^ hoM' could 
 '" y='ur heart, Z S fe''^- ^^ yo" entertaS 
 your neighbour, whom CnAu ^^^""^ towards 
 
 to love ? And fefu. C^.a u ^*^ '"'""■anded you 
 toidyouinf^J^S'^J'^ft^h^^decI^ ,^,^y°« 
 
 ^f"Ms>v( mmen their 11^^ ^^y"' 'hat;/ 
 
 'I'hcre. 
 
ofQhgvky; and 
 ties. 
 
 s t^efe, and re* 
 
 'iteyou^ andpray^ 
 ^ perfcctite you., 
 
 hard, that you 
 
 IT hatred, blef* 
 
 thustofiicou, 
 Kou. 
 
 lot be harder 
 led for evef • 
 ^^iHi of you I 
 
 > bear one of 
 go to heavren, 
 as you wifli 
 u viih them 
 fnyourpow- 
 b for your. 
 
 ownfeives : 
 ' beaven the 
 
 that very 
 ^r God and 
 I hoM^ could 
 >u entertaia 
 'd towards 
 i"cied you 
 
 > as I have 
 ^er, that;/, 
 
 There^ 
 
 ( 8i ) 
 
 Therefore as St. Paul recommends, put on as 
 
 the eleEt of God holy and hdoved^ bowels of mercies^ 
 
 khidnef, humhknefs of mind, meeknefs, long fuffering \ 
 
 forbearing one another, and forgiving one another ; if 
 
 any fimn have a quarrel againft any, even as Chrift 
 
 forgave ymi, fo do you. And above all *hefc things, 
 
 pa on Charity, which is the bond ofperfedlnefs, CoJ. 
 
 III. 12. 13. 14. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 DUTIES refpe&htg our/elves. 
 
 Thefe are felfdenlal, humility, fobriety, cliafti 
 ty, contentednefs, Patience, Induftry, vigilance 
 and perfeverancc. IVIy bufinefs is to explain to 
 you what thofe duties are-, and that they are 
 really commanded of God in fcripture, and are 
 therefore neceffary for falvation. 
 
 I. Self-denial is a difpofrtion to renounce the 
 gratification of our innocent dertrcs and inclina- 
 tions, when, either by their nature or by circum- 
 fiances that gratification iiuy become dangerous 
 toourfalvation. For inftance, 
 
 th J' "'' '°''« "^''^ «,°fld by nature, and the thing, 
 that are therein * which ate riches, plcafures, eafe 
 and plenty : But tho- it is not contrary r„ chri! 
 
 cZ ;!■ ln"/°. '°^' '}?^'' S'X'd things, which 
 God has filled this world with -, yet, if we fo fet 
 our hearts upon them, as to think we can be con- 
 ftantly happy m their polTelllons, or as to make 
 ourfelves nnlerable when we are deprived of thcra; 
 
 "*" this 
 
/ 1° '^« "relefsSf "f^P; "* ^° '^^'P'Te or ,. , . 
 
 / J^ngdora of God J. ^^ ''evenly t^'fi * " ''=>« 
 
 *^'" thu th^o' . "•■■ ''"'"°'-'" foul "'V ="d 
 
 yourfelves ton """ " becaufc ff. ^ratifi. 
 
 '■' ^ili not oM ■ ""'' '"g'Ve wlv tn^°" ''""ftom 
 
 rehnquHh thofe- I ^"° ""ake youV° ".'^^ree 
 ''O'-t'' us, asT^; " "'"voidab/e "c?'*^*'"^ or 
 
 '/ fi i tel "'"• "^-^XXV; ''f 7 A- 
 
 ^^^nftran.er/l,' T^ "« '" this »„ iJ"^"' "■ 
 Philip iff^" ""^^ P'^nms, and ! T*"'^ "» more 
 
 "mention ali tE ft! P'''"' "'> wl ' T'"^''"' 
 '^"^y= but from f'"*' '■" wiiichTiV^ ^ ?«""ot .- 
 '''^r this, for° 7''" ^ ''"^e fa^^^ ^^'^''^''«' "a 
 
 '-"-> journeying ^S", - m thi^l^ 
 
 ^encr country^ 
 that 
 
3 "^ '^ ^^^(h 
 
 ^"A'^cs of the 
 s, to feek for 
 '^^'•"^^s, and 
 r '""^^ J and 
 
 ^^^ f^e fake 
 ges of ti,,-, 
 ^po/lie re. 
 
 "world. ^ if 
 father is not 
 
 yourfeives 
 ^-^^« t/iofo 
 5°" niuft 
 ^e gratffi- 
 
 accuftom 
 appetites, 
 
 ^ cfccree 
 y ioth to 
 laces or 
 *«ter ex- 
 
 o niore 
 "i fays, 
 "^ true 
 cannot -^ 
 lal is a 
 
 ayga- 
 is i/fe 
 
 that 
 
 ( 93 ) 
 
 that is, a heavenly o)Uy as thz Apoftle fays, Tn 
 Heb. XI. 16. Now, travellers do not mind fo 
 mucK their cafe and conveniency, while they are 
 upon the road j they put up with all manner of 
 bad accommodations -, and provided they can get 
 forward, they do not mind even the worft of roads, 
 in hopes of afpeedy and fafe arrival at their own 
 home, where they {hall refrefh and reft them- 
 felves from all fatigue : On the contrary they pafs 
 by many agreeable places, without ftoping, and 
 many good entertainments without taftingof them; 
 in order not to be enticed by them to forget or 
 delay the end of their journey. 
 
 You like wife being as I fald fir anger 5 and pilg^ 
 rims in this life, ought to tlunjc chiefly of getting 
 fafely to vour heavenly home, not minding the 
 thorns, the inconveniencles and the troubles, which 
 you meet with on your road j nor being too much 
 taken up with the pleafures and entertainments 
 and good things, which offer themfelves to you 
 as you go along ; but taking only neccflary rc- 
 f reflimcnt, make all poilible hafte towards the pro- 
 mifcd land wherein you will reft from all your la- 
 bours, if you can be fo happy as to get there. 
 And therefore, you muft be ready to fuffer all 
 Jcind of evils In this world, ev^n poverty, diftrefs 
 and death itfelf, rather than to forfeit your falva- 
 tion i which is the only .thing that deferves your 
 care and your attention in this life. And upon 
 the whole, always remember and follow this pre- 
 cept of St. Jr^aui, Seektbofe things ivhich are above^ 
 where CbriH fmth on , the right hand of God-, fef 
 
 /t 2 your 
 
f 
 
 l\ 
 
 Weiv„,J^^;e«o . Buf' /;^^/ good .raZ" 
 
 .\»W^ r„ tff^o?SX2^ poor. /. 
 
 ;^'°"' '^y«. in Lu4 vr '"'' '''« bccan?/ " "'= 
 ■/"• joiirs :s ih^ if '^^- 20. JiLir 7 .^^ our fa 
 
 ""»*»«».. 
 
^ "" '""--"is on 
 ^^ '^^^ your. 
 
 " , ^'^ you 
 
 ;^^"e your, 
 
 .''^f va/ue 
 '^'•ei that 
 ' /ou are 
 
 ^^^"g as 
 "^> more 
 ^^ man's '^'^ ^ 
 ■e /in/u/, 
 '» a rich 
 
 y- both 
 
 towards 
 
 ^oor, is 
 5 which 
 
 ^» are 
 5ur fa- 
 
 /<?^/' . 
 
 ■%ht 
 lotto 
 •i^ /<» 
 
 ( 85 ) 
 
 preach the Go/pel to the poor, as you may read \i\ 
 Luke VI. 18. None but the poor have a claim 
 to tht falvation promifed in the gofpel. On the 
 contrary, you muft look upon yourfelves, as 
 equally unworthy with the rich, of that falvation, 
 which the grace of God does tender to all men, 
 whether rich or poor : You muft be convinced of 
 the extreme finfulnefs of your lives V whereby if 
 God would give you only your dcferts, you could 
 expert nothing but damnation ; You muft be 
 poor^' not only in wordly goods, but you muft: 
 efpecially be poor in fpirit : that is, have a low 
 and humble opinion of your qualities, both of 
 mind and body ; and be perfuaded, that your foul 
 being ftained all over with the hlth of fm, nothing 
 but the blood of Chrift can wafti it clean, and 
 make it fit to be prefented to God, and admitted 
 into his celeftial kingdom. 
 
 1 would not have you be blind to the advan- 
 tages of your ftatioh i which are in general, that 
 you are not expofed to many temptations to fin, 
 which the rich are liable to j and that you have 
 not fo many difficulties to furmount to work out 
 your own falvation, as the rich have j fince it is 
 faid in fcripture, that // is eafier for a camel to go 
 through the eye of a needle^ than for a rich man to 
 enter into the kingdom of God, Mat. XIX. 24. But 
 then you ought to confieler that thofe very advan- 
 tages are graces which you muft be accountable 
 for i and tho' the rich will be called to a greater 
 account than you, having had more opportuni- 
 ties and more leifure to beinftrudled in the will of 
 their mailer : Yet if you neglect the little you have 
 
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 4. How can you difcharge your duties, either 
 towards God, or towards your neighbours ? How 
 can you pray and worfliip your maker ? How can 
 you practice juftice, equity and charity, when 
 you have loft the fenfe of every thing that is good 
 or right by drinking^to excefs ? 
 
 5. Not only drumtennefs leads you into all 
 manner of fin and wickednefs •, but it will lead 
 you alfo into damnation i both, by b 'ng a dam- 
 nable fin of itfelfi and efpecially, by making you 
 blind to the finfulnefs of your lives, by making 
 you incapable of confidcring the danger you are 
 in, and by hindering you from repentance and 
 converfion. If death were to furprife you when 
 you are drunk, how could you be fenfible of it ? 
 How could yoi^ call upon the Lord for mercy ? 
 
 Therefore excefs in drinking is forbidden in 
 fcripture, Ifaiah ch. V. 22. fays: IVoe unto them 
 that are mighty to drink wine, and men of firength 
 to mingle Jlrong drink. Now, by this you may fee, 
 that it is not only excefs of wine which it finful, 
 but all excefs of Jlrong drink ; whether fingle or 
 mixed. Rum or Flip, which are what you gene- 
 rally ufe in this part of the world, as well as Wine, 
 or Beer, or Brandy, are lialDle to make you 
 drunk, if you make ufe of them beyond the li- 
 mits of moderation j and therefore you ought to 
 beware of them, and be very fobcr in their ufe : 
 For St. Paul declares, that Drunkards /hall not in- 
 herit the kingdom of God, i. Cor. VI. 10. 
 
 Sobriety is frequently recommended in Scrip- 
 ture, in regard both to eating and drinking. Our 
 Savior fays after fpeaking of the laft day : Take 
 
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 V. Con FENTiDNESS. In the forgoing paffage 
 the covelcHs is declared to be an idolaur and to have 
 no inheritance in t' e kingdom of Chriji and cf God, 
 You ought to ' c fatisfied with that (late, wherein 
 it has pleafed God to place you. To repine and 
 murmur, becaufe you are not in e.ifi'^r circum- 
 ftances, is both a folly and a fin. It is i folly, 
 becaufe fretting will not mend the evil, but on 
 the contrary incrcafe the pain it may give you : 
 And it is a fin, becaufe as nothing can happen 
 without the vill of God j it is refifting h-'s v/iH' 
 ajid (hewing a difcont-nt, as if he had not done 
 for you all he was obliged to j while on the con- 
 trary God oweth you nothing, and whatever he 
 gives you, if it is but a bit of black ^read, it is 
 out of mere goodnefs, and you ought to be thank- 
 ful for it. For that reafon" St. Paul cxhorteth to 
 beware of covetoufnefs : Let your converfation be 
 ivithout covetoufnefs^ and b. content with fu'ch things 
 (IS ye have; for God has /aid, in Deut. XXXI. 6. 
 I will never fail thee nor forfake thee, Heb. XIII. 5: 
 Godlinefs ipith contentment is great gain j for we 
 brought nothing into this wsrld, and i) is certain we 
 can ca^ry nothing out ; And haviifg food and raiment^ 
 let us is- therewith content, 1 Tim. VI. 6. 7. 8. 
 The (lima Apoflle propofeth his own example : 
 I have learned in whatfoever Jiate lam, therewith 
 to be content, I know both how to be abafed ; and I 
 kmw how to abound: Every where and in all things, 
 I am inftrucfed, both to be full and to he hungr^^ both 
 to abound and to fufft-r need^ Phil. IV. u. 1-2. Our 
 Saviour givcth the fame- commandment in Luke 
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 'i^hich he DofTeirfith ^v^ ""'^^^^^^^f of the things 
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 profit^ that we migH he partake s of bis holinefs^ 
 Hcb. XII. lo. 
 
 VII. Industry is very neceflary to poor people j 
 becaufe thereby only they can provide, with the 
 blefllng of God, thofe things which are necefTary 
 for their fubfiftance. Therefore God out of Jove 
 CO mankind, has made it a duty, and in fcripture 
 it is ftrongly recommended, to worjc in order to 
 get a livelyhood. God made it a law to Adam 
 even before he had finned : For we read in Gen. 
 II. 15. That the Lord took him^ and put hhn-into the 
 garden ofEdeit^ to drefs it and io keep it. After he 
 iiad finned, God turned him oijt of the Garden 
 and condemned him not only to die, not only to 
 forrow and afHidion ; but alfo to harder work than 
 he had to do inthe garden of Eden, faying : In thd 
 fweat of thy face Jh alt thou eat breads till thou return 
 mto the ground^ Gen. HI. 19. In the fourth com- 
 mandment labour is prefcribcd, /a days (halt thou 
 labour^ and do all thy labour. St. Paulalfo commends 
 it cxpreflly -, Study to be quiet^ and to do your own 
 bufmefs^ and to work with your own hands ^ as we com- 
 manded ycru •, that ye may walk honeji towards them 
 that are without, and that ye may lack of nothing, t 
 Thefl'IV. II. 12. '^his we commanded you, that if 
 any would not work neither fhould he eat % for we hear 
 that there arefome which walk among you diforderly^ 
 working not at ally hut are hufy bodies: Now them 
 that are fuch, we command and exhort, by our Lord 
 Jefus Chrift., that with quietnefs they work and eat their 
 ownbready 3 ThefT. III. 10, 11, 12. 
 
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 Scrlptnre alfo warns us of the eonftquences and 
 punifhrnent of idlenefs, Solomon fays in Prov. 
 XXIV. 50. / wefii by the f eld of tbejiolbful, and by 
 the vineyard of the man void of underjlanding -, and lo I 
 it was all grown over with i horns, and nettles had co- 
 vered the face thereof^ and the fl one wall thereof was 
 hrokcn dcum. And agnin inEccl. X. 18. By much 
 flothfulr.efs the buildings decayeth, and through idlenefs 
 of the hands the hcufe dro^peth through. 
 
 It is a common faying and a true one, that Idle- 
 7icfs is the mother of all evils •, and I may fay, not on- 
 ly temporal, fuch as poverty, want, difeafe ; but 
 alfofpiritual evils; fmce idlenefs leads men into 
 all manner of fins or temptations thereto, for want 
 of better employment. 
 
 Although induftry is your duty as a cln-iftian ; 
 yet you muft not entirely truft to thr^t : But mull 
 afk the bkfling of God upon it, and truft to his 
 goodnefs for the fruits of your labour. For tho' 
 you work ever fo hard, you cannot make any thing 
 grow out of the earth, if God fcnda not proper 
 weather, and do not make your ground fruitful -, 
 and if he does not give you ftrength, and vigour 
 and health, you cannot even work. Therefore 
 you muft rely upon his goodnefs, and humbly 
 pray him for your daily bread ; that is for blef- 
 iing of your honeft endeavours. David lays : Trufi 
 in the Lord anddogood^fofhalt thou dwell in the landy 
 and verily thou /halt be fed, Pf, XXXVII. 3. Ho- 
 neft induftry, fupported by an humble and faith- 
 ful reliance upon God*s mercy and goodnefs, can 
 hardly fail of fuccefs j for the Lord is good, a lirong 
 held in the d^y of trouble^ and he kno-ivcth them that 
 trufl in him^ N^h. I. 7. VIII. 
 
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 VIII. Vigilance, otherwlfe called watcaful- 
 NESS, confifts, ift. in .being always, attentive to 
 your duties. 2dly. In^ftel^)e for ali opportuni- 
 ties to difcharge them, and in making.^ good ufe 
 of thefe opportunities^^^^lly. In ftriving to fore- 
 fee what temptations areji§ply to aflail you, in the 
 different occurrences of your life •, in order, either 
 to avoid them with prudence, or to -withftand 
 thtm with courage, as the nature of it will require. 
 4thly. In making ufe of all poflible means which 
 religion offers, to y^u to avoid fm and to preferve 
 in virtue and godlinefs. 
 
 Thofe means arc, y^. frequently to look back 
 upon your behaviour, and by examining your ac- 
 tions, your words and your thoughts, ftrive to 
 know whether they are right or vvrong. 2dly, To 
 read frequently the fcriptures, to think often upon 
 what they contain, and to endeavour to make that 
 your conftant rule, ^dly To attend as regular as 
 poflible divine worfliip, in thofe houfes of God 
 which you are ufed to j and there to be ferious & 
 carncft in your prayers, and attentive to the in- 
 ftruftions oiyourminifters. 4thly, To avoid the 
 company of bad and loofe people ; becaufe as St. 
 Paul fays : Evil commiinicatiomcortupt had manners^ 
 I Cor, XV. 33. 5thly, On the contrary to feek 
 the company and fellowHiip of fach as fear ( > od ; 
 for Solomon fays : He that walketh 'xith wife mev^ 
 {hall he wife, Prov. XIII. 20. 6'thly, Tojoin prnyl 
 €7 for grace, to watchfulnefs, according to this 
 advice of our Saviour : Watch and p-av^ that ye en- 
 ter not into tempalion. Mat.- XXVI. 41. 
 
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 •To Hatch and not to„Hw,U^"''^ "?= "'^ f^W. 
 
 ^^[-hfs „pt tie cafe fe'°"''°^''°"'-°^" ^"^ 
 
 Witt the help of God'? hi /°" *'*""°f ''e Co, h 
 
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 o"fly upon God's ffrice »vPi.?'^"'& prefun^pf, 
 
 I'ut to fuch a., both afl^V! >^ ''^.'"'" "«^»r £ 
 -'''-•u and to\-«;;o:f fc /"d e d ^ 
 
 to hejp you in the work of v„* / 8°'^ '^ willjj 
 ^>JI not perform that worlT 1 ''■''"1 * '>'" ' 
 muft do that work vom-flf-^ . m'racle. Yc' 
 as without ft yo°couM!^^' """^ *'■"> Wshein 
 '•ore I repeat '^yT^^A tT"'P'l^ '^' ^H 
 
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 |ndith.ki/eedr^;^,t:-^;!^:;^. 
 
 ^>f e P^r o'^fXu^d^rThe^f "^ -P^' 
 
 life. To tio/i onit „1 ""^ ?• '^«" "s from i 
 vat-on is promifed^.^Z.'"' P'S'^.^" «o the end, 
 - XXIV. i?^ 'l./'i°/;°"j ^"^'""^ '■ays in ^ 
 
 Phet Ezekiel wKxxifr ? V^^ ''If ^ 
 
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JHAVE fet before yi 
 
 peut.XXX. i^.toL 
 
 \gooii, ami death anae^ 
 
 I thf Lord jour God^ tg 
 tdments, and his ftatulfu 
 *\ multiply . and the Lordfyo\j^r^m^^m 
 
 ch you poflefs. But tf your WTtSjT 
 tycu tbn d^y, thai ye fi^all jhelymm «,, 
 Into the celeftial land, the heave^CanL ^^m^- 
 galled by the grace of God and of'his Son "^S^^^ >^ 
 1. /ca/i ^/«<i;,« and earth ia reccrd fAi. ^ J^^}-^ni\ our 
 
 ->/ V.r. ^.« eternal^' w;lf IXZ"^ 
 fore chufc life, that both /ou and your' fedl T"^ T^*"^' ' 
 |e«ven : That you .ay lol the iVd^UtT^ Zfrr^ 
 hfy h'sn^oce- and that yo^x may cleanse un^himAr'^ 
 
 Wr-'i '^' ^'"^'1' "-^y^^^ ^^V. • that y"n^ayd2:n // 
 lgj*he living, ivhereunto the Lordhzs promi^d tnt? ' '^' 
 Tocome allthce (whether they beTh or l'^,'"^^' T 
 /this world) who will truly, hLrtily and fShfoT'^- 
 embrace and obey the gofpei of Chrift ; vvhich cS?-''' 
 feach^d iirft ; whicK his apoftles and d fciplcs\Sr.K ^"^f 
 V ; and which I, the fervlnt of the fervam o/chi "^a 
 V^nfern^ant for Jefus fake, do preach alfo unto yoS' '"^ 
 [erefore, I will conclude this wkh the following words of 
 
 iflce and peace he multiplied unto you, ihrouoh th. i t j 
 \dandofJefus our Lord ; accorLl ai&t t t 
 unto us, all things that pertain uJolTreaJZl' ^r T '^"Z 
 
 um, ofhim'tha^ Li caijjuf/rX:^'!^;:^ 
 
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 *^jhefn, and be 'tJkibltjMf 
 ^^^^^ atMgas l,im ii 
 ^l_,^,_^ f-jningnyou in remembrance : Mm 
 J^^ut off this my tabernacle, t'vcn as oS\ 
 ■^Jhenv^i^. Moreo^'er, I av/7/ endea^voufl 
 aitermy deceafe, to ha've thefe things akiX 
 ietcr I. 2. to 15. •■ 
 
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 • BRETHREN, 
 Think of Heath ! G think of deadi often, and 
 
 '"^ypfiy our hearts to nA:ifdom, Pf. LXXX^;, 12/ 
 
 rhe grace of our Lord Jefus.ChriJl, aftd 
 oj trod, and the communion of nhe Hoh-\ 
 ;wftb you alh amen: 2 Gov. XIII 
 
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