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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.

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 aime, 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 preheminence, 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.

By this time Reader thou mayst easily see, 1. that Godliness is not an uneffectual opinion, or dead belief; If thou were the most Orthodox professor, or Preacher in the world, thou art ungodly if thou have no more. All have not Faith that say the Creed; The notional apprehension, and the practical judgement are often contrary; The opinion that is insufficient to change the Heart, to move the will, to renew the life, shall prove insufficient to save the Soul.