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

¹The mercies of God to man being strong enforcements of man's duty to God, upon these moral grounds and reasons, Joshua in the 14th verse, earnestly exhorts them to fear the Lord, and to serve him in sincerity, with a pure heart, without hypocrisy; and in truth, without false pretences, and counterfeit shows of godliness, as becometh such as worship the most Holy, the most Wise, and glorious God; and declareth his own fixed resolution, That he and his house would serve the Lord: as if he should say; I have given you a Catalogue of the great and many mercies of God vouchsafed to you, and I have exhorted and charged you all in the Name of the Great and Eternal God, to fear and serve him; but if ye will not, I do here declare, profess, and publish my purpose and resolution in the ears of all you, the Elders, Heads, Judges and Officers, and all others, that I and my house will serve the Lord; be it known unto you, that I will not only serve and worship God my self, but will also set up his worship in my house: and both I and mine will serve the Lord.

¹The mercies of God to man being strong enforcements of man's duty to God, upon these moral grounds and reasons, Joshua in the 14th verse, earnestly exhorts them to fear the Lord, and to serve him in sincerity, with a pure heart, without hypocrisie; and in truth, without false pretences, and counterfeit shews of godliness, as becometh such as worship the most Holy, the most Wise, and glorious God; and declareth his own fixed resolution, That he and his house would serve the Lord: as if he should say; I have given you a Catalogue of the great and many mercies of God vouchsafed to you, and I have exhorted and charged you all in the Name of the Great and Eternal God, to fear and serve him; but if ye will not, I do here declare, profess, and publish my purpose and resolution in the ears of all you, the Elders, Heads, Judges and Officers, and all others, that I and my house will serve the Lord; be it known unto you, that I will not only serve and worship God my self, but will also set up his worship in my house: and both I and mine will serve the Lord.

1. 1A capite bona vale•udo, inde omnia v•geta sunt, atque erecta, aut languor demissa; prout animus eorum viget, aut marcet. Et erunt Cives, erunt Socii digni hac bonitate: & in totum orbem rectimores revertentur. Seec. de Clement. lib 2. cap. 2. [Greek or Hebrew] & ego & domus mea. [Greek or Hebrew] & [Greek or Hebrew] usurpantur. 1. Pro domicilio.