Such objects and concerns in its most intimate and close embraces, and in its stated prospect, and yet act sparingly, sordidly, or sneakingly for God! Love burns and blushes at the thought. And Heaven it self ere long will irritate, exert and show the Purity and generous Vigours of this Grace, in such a stated and inviolable series of great and generous actions, so full of God, and every way so fully for him, and so worthy of him, as that the life of God in glory shall evidence the force and excellence of that spring and principle whence it proceeds; and yet even here, even in this its Infant and Imperfect State, it groans and labours to have God's Will done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Well, in a word, such must your Actions and your Conversations be, as that (whatever you are conversant about or with, the temper of your Spirits, and the fervours and vigours of your love to God, his Image, Interest, Son, Spirit, Gospel, and all that do profess and own respects hereto) every step you take, and every thing you do ought to be great and exemplary, and impregnated with what may speak the greatness, largeness, cheerfulness ⟨image 150⟩and energies of your inflamed, exalted, and invigorated Souls, through love to God, Christ, Souls and Christianity. O to be exemplary in all Conversation! to live each other into awakened Considerations of Spiritual concerns, to dart forth all those glorious rays of Christian Wisdom, of which we are told in Jam. iii. 17, 18. to make men feel, as well as see, the force and flames of Christian Love; to charm Exasperated Passions down by all the sweetnesses of true Wisdom, Patience, Meekness, Gentleness, and every way endearing Conversation with them; to have the Law of Kindness always in your Mouths, the notices of true Friendliness in your Looks, the gifts and proofs of generous Charity in your Hands, in constant readiness to minister to the Necessities of the Saints, as God shall prosper your Endeavours in your lawful and regularly managed Occupations and Employments; to have your Dealings and Commerces each with other accurately and severely just, and yet sufficiently securing the credit and concerns of Christianity.
Such objects and concerns in its most intimate and close embraces, and in its stated prospect, and yet act sparingly, sordidly, or sneakingly for God! Love burns and blushes at the thought. And Heaven it self ere long will irritate, exert and shew the Purity and generous Vigours of this Grace, in such a stated and inviolable series of great and generous actions, so full of God, and every way so fully for him, and so worthy of him, as that the life of God in glory shall evidence the force and excellence of that spring and principle whence it proceeds; and yet even here, even in this its Infant and Imperfect State, it groans and labours to have God's Will done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Well, in a word, such must your Actions and your Conversations be, as that (whatever you are conversant about or with, the temper of your Spirits, and the fervours and vigours of your love to God, his Image, Interest, Son, Spirit, Gospel, and all that do profess and own respects hereto) every step you take, and every thing you do ought to be great and exemplary, and impregnated with what may speak the greatness, largeness, chearfulness ⟨image 150⟩and energies of your enflamed, exalted, and invigorated Souls, through love to God, Christ, Souls and Christianity. O to be exemplary in all Conversation! to live each other into awakened Considerations of Spiritual concerns, to dart forth all those glorious rays of Christian Wisdom, of which we are told in Jam. iii. 17, 18. to make men feel, as well as see, the force and flames of Christian Love; to charm Exasperated Passions down by all the sweetnesses of true Wisdom, Patience, Meekness, Gentleness, and every way endearing Conversation with them; to have the Law of Kindness always in your Mouths, the notices of true Friendliness in your Looks, the gifts and proofs of generous Charity in your Hands, in constant readiness to minister to the Necessities of the Saints, as God shall prosper your Endeavours in your lawful and regularly managed Occupations and Employments; to have your Dealings and Commerces each with other accurately and severely just, and yet sufficiently securing the credit and concerns of Christianity.
