Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

1. Let us consider one another for this provoking work, or in order to this Provocation. [Greek or Hebrew]. The word here in the Text imports strict observation of, and great solicitousness of thoughts about each other, as to great matters for their Good. So that we have, 1. The Objects; each other. 2. The Act or Duty towards them; Let us Consider. 3. The end and scope; To a provocation unto love and to Good works.

1. Let us consider one another for this provoking work, or in order to this Provocation. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. The word here in the Text imports strict observation of, and great sollicitousness of thoughts about each other, as to great matters for their Good. So that we have, 1. The Objects; each other. 2. The Act or Duty towards them; Let us Consider. 3. The end and scope; To a provocation unto love and to Good works.

1. The Objects. One another. 1. As to the great and Stated ends of our Creation and Redemption. Such as the Divine nature, and Life, and Joy. Gods image in us, service from us, and the delightful blissful (and that) eternal presence with us, in the glorious discoveries and Communications of himself to us in heaven. And as we are recovered & redeemed by Jesus Christ; So our loyalty, gratitude and fruitfulness to him, in all acknowledgements and improvements of his kind Conduct, Government, Providence and Grace, unto the Fathers Glory through him. As we are related to the Holy Ghost it is our correspondent Temper and Practice with, Improvement of, and our fit returns unto, the Offered, Accepted and Profest relations of the Spirit and his Communications to us, his Operations in us and his Effects upon our Spirits, that he ⟨image 152⟩might thereby suit us to the Concerns & Privileges of our Christian state, and that we might be built up, furnished and possest as the Eternal Temple of the living God. Linked and laid together; and so, related and obliged to each other, dependant each on other, and consequently useful and delightful, in being heartily and practically faithful each to other unto the Edification of the whole in love; that so God (three in One) may be eternally and evidently All to Universal Satisfaction. For we were made and bought, and are committed to the care of Christ and of the Spirit; and we are accordingly entrusted with Gospel helps and means, that we might hereby be the Mirrors of Divine Communicable excellencies and perfections, the Monuments of prosperous and rich Grace, and Instruments of special Service. For these ends God Created and Redeemed us, and in respect hereto are we to be considered each by other. 2. As to our capacity of serving and reaching such Great Ends and Purposes. The powers of our Souls, the members of our Bodies, and all our natural accommodations for these Ends. For we are men, and so have faculties and powers naturally capable of, and formed to a propenseness and appetite to the Supreme Good, and thereupon receptive of all the attractive influences of the first cause; and were it not for our moral depravations, and Corruptions, and alienations of heart herefrom which we have sinfully contracted, espoused and indulged;