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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 12: The Case, or Question, which comes to be spoken unto this morning, is; Quest. How may P…
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5 Private Christians should make themselves remarkable, and considerable in the faithful discharge of Relative Duties. With these, they are frequently, and earnestly charged; and that upon this particular account, because the Honour, and Interest of the Gospel, is so much concerned in them, 1 Tim. vi. 1. Let as many Servants as are under the yoke, count their own Masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God, and his doctrine be not blasphemed. It is evident, that Heathen-Morality was greatly defective, in the regulating of Domestic Offices; and therefore, the Rules, and Directions given in the Gospel concerning them, must highly advance it, in the esteem, and judgment of all considering persons.
5 Private Christians should make themselves remarkable, and considerable in the faithful discharge of Relative Duties. With these, they are frequently, and earnestly charged; and that upon this particular account, because the Honour, and Interest of the Gospel, is so much concerned in them, 1 Tim. vi. 1. Let as many Servants as are under the yoke, count their own Masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God, and his doctrin be not blasphemed. It is evident, that Heathen-Morality was greatly defective, in the regulating of Domestick Offices; and therefore, the Rules, and Directions given in the Gospel concerning them, must highly advance it, in the esteem, and judgment of all considering persons.
6 Private Christians should order the whole course of their lives and conversations, so as it becometh the Gospel of Christ, Phil. i. 27. that thereby, they may adorn the Doctrine of God, and our Saviour, in all things, Tit. ii. 10. when men see such glorious rays of Holiness sparkling, and shining in the whole tenor of a Christian's conversation, they must needs be convinced, That the Gospel doth furnish them with those Principles of Light, and Grace, that infinitely transcend those obscure, and broken notices of Good, and Evil, that are found in Lapsed, but Unrenewed Nature.