A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…

1. What Abraham would do for God: viz. That he would endeavour to bring all that were under his Command to be at God's Command. Abraham will not leave his children and servants to their own Genius, counsels, lusts, ignorance, idleness, superstition, idolatry, but command them to keep the way of Jehovah. Abraham will endeavour to set up God in his Family, to instruct it in that way of Faith, Worship, and Obedience, which God requireth.

2. What God will do for Abraham, viz. fulfil his Promise, keep his Word. Holy Job, that Non pareil of the World, none like him in the Earth, Job 1.8. that perfect, that upright man, Job sends and sanctifies his children; i. e. says that late burning and shining Light, sent a Message to them, to command them to prepare and fit themselves for the holy duty of Sacrificing.

This preparation to holy Duties is often called Sanctifying, Exod. 19.20. 1 Sam. 6.5. Job 11.55.¹ Job's main and special care was for the Souls of his children. Job's Message to his children was not to ask them how they did after their Feasting, whether they had surfeited, how the reckoning was inflamed: No, his eye and heart mostly sixth on this, that they might be sanctified: His holy Soul struck a perfect light to Paul's desire before Agrippa, Acts 26.29. I would to God, that not only thou, but all that hear me this day, were both almost and altogether such as I am: And to John's joy, John Ep. 3.4. I have no greater joy, than to hear that thy children walk in the truth.