A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

2. Godliness visible and expressive consisteth in our Profession of that devotedness to God, and that forsaking of the Devil, the world, and the flesh, which we have before described as the Essence of Internal Godliness, and to which in the holy Covenant we oblige our selves. Christ will be confessed before men, and will be ashamed of them before God and Angels, who are so far ashamed of him before men, as ordinarily to refuse to own him and confess him. The public worshipping of God in Christ, in Prayer, Thanksgiving, Praises, Sacrament, is appointed as the Professings acts, by which we openly own our Lord: And therefore ordinarily the Assembling our selves together for this public worship is not to be forsaken, through negligence or fear; but with Daniel we must pray though we are sure to be cast to the Lyons den; For though no duty be at all times a duty, yet the disowning of our God, or denying him, or being ashamed of him, or inordinately afraid of man, is at all times a sin: and ordinarily and seasonably to Profess true Godliness, our subjection and devotedness to God, is essential to External Godliness.

2. Godliness visible and expressive consisteth in our Profession of that devotedness to God, and that forsaking of the Devil, the world, and the flesh, which we have before described as the Essence of Internal Godliness, and to which in the holy Covenant we oblige our selves. Christ will be confessed before men, and will be ashamed of them before God and Angels, who are so far ashamed of him before men, as ordinarily to refuse to own him and confess him. The publike worshiping of God in Christ, in Prayer, Thansgiving, Praises, Sacrament, is appointed as the Professings acts, by which we openly own our Lord: And therefore ordinarily the Assembling our selves together for this publike worship is not to be forsaken, through negligence or fear; but with Daniel we must pray though we are sure to be cast to the Lyons den; For though no duty be at all times a duty, yet the disowning of our God, or denying him, or being ashamed of him, or inordinately afraid of man, is at all times a sin: and ordinarily and seasonably to Profess true Godliness, our subjection and devotedness to God, is essential to External Godliness.

3. Visible Expressive Godliness doth essentially consist in the Practice of our fore-described Covenant and Profession: That our faces be truly Heaven-wards, and that our walk be in the way of God, through we sometimes slip and stumble and if we step aside, that we turn not back again, but return by Repentance in our way: that the drift and aim, and bent of our lives, be for God and our salvation: and that there be in us no sin, which truly and habitually we had not rather leave then keep: And that our great business in the world be the pleasing of God, and the saving of our souls: and that neither Honours, nor Profits, nor Pleasures of the flesh, have the preeminence, and be preferred: that Christ be not put under the Great ones of the world, nor put after your commodity, nor put off with the leavings of the flesh, but that all be made to stoop to him, and take his leavings: All this is of necessity to salvation, and essential to expressive Godliness.