Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace…

Brethren, shall the Lord speak all this, and more than this, in the Scripture of your Glory, and will you not prove your selves glorious; and study to make good this precious word? Doth he say, The righteous is more excellent than his Neighbour, Prov. 12.26. and will you not study to show your selves more excellent indeed? Shall all these high things be spoken of you, and will you live so far below them all? What a heinous wrong is this to God? He sticks not in boasting of you, to call you his jewels, Mal. 3.17. and tells the world he will make them one day discern the difference between the Righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not, verse 18. He tells the World that his coming in Judgment will be to be glorified in his Saints, and to be admired in them that believe, 2 Thess. 1.10. It's openly Professed by the Apostle John [We know that we are of God, and the whole World lieth in wicked••••, 1 John 5.19. He challengeth any to condemn you, or lay any thing to ⟨p. 78⟩your charge, professing that it is he that justifieth you; casting the Saints into admiration by his love, [What shall we say to these things? if God be for us, who can be against us? Rom. 8.31. He challengeth Tribulation, Distress, Persecution, Famine, or Nakedness, Peril or Sword, to separate you if they can from the Love of God. He challengeth Death and Life, Angels, Principalities and Powers, things present, and things to come, height and depth or any other Creature, to separate you, if they are able from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord, Rom. 8.35, 37, 38, 39. Shall the Lord of Heaven thus make his boast of you to all the World, and will you not make good his boasting? Yea I must tell you, he will see that it be made good to a word! and if you be not careful of it your selves, and it be not made good in you, then you are not the people that God thus boasteth of. He tells the greatest Persecutors to their faces, that the meek, the humble, little ones of his Flock have their Angels beholding the face of God in Heaven,