The excellency of a gracious spirit Delivered in a treatise upon the 14. of…The excellency of a gracious spirit Deliuered in a treatise upon the 14. of…

10 To follow God fully, is to abide ¹in all these constant to the end of our days; That is, we must be constant in Gods ways, not think it enough to enter into them by fits and starts, but the ways of God must be our ordinary track, Prov. 16. 17. The high way of the upright is to depart ⟨p. 303⟩from evil; It is his common road, and constant course: and we must continue faithful before the Lord unto the death. It is the commendation of Hezekiah 2 King. 8. 6. He clave unto the Lord and departed not. And David, Psal. 119. 112. he saith, He hath inclined his heart to perform Gods statutes alway; but as if that expression were not enough to signify his continuance, he adds, even unto the end. Job 17. 9. The righteous holds on his way. A heart that hath given up it self fully to God, doth never forsake him. There is no Apostate in the world, but if we could trace him along in his ways, to his very beginning, we might find, that in the entrance of his profession, there was not a full giving up himself to God, there was not an absolute surrender made, of all that he was, and had, unto the Lord. It may be said of him as it was of Amaziah, That though he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, yet he did it not with a perfect heart.

10 To follow God fully, is to abide ¹in all these constant to the end of our dayes; That is, we must be constant in Gods wayes, not thinke it enough to enter into them by fits and starts, but the wayes of God must be our ordinary track, Prov. 16. 17. The high way of the upright is to depart ⟨p. 303⟩from evil; It is his common road, and constant course: and wee must continue faithfull before the Lord unto the death. It is the commendation of Hezechiah