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3. And is it not a reasonable thing that we should do Gods work as fully as our own? Now if you have any business to do in the world, you will turn every stone, you will do it with all your might. Have you not sinned with all your might? and shall your sins be crying sins, and your prayers whispering prayers? Will you run when the world calls, and ⟨p. 142⟩will you creep when God calls? You will not bear it that a man speak to you when you speak to another; and will you bear it, that the world should speak to you while you speak to God. But,

3. And is it not a reasonable thing that we should do Gods work as fully as our own? Now if you have any business to do in the world, you will turn every stone, you will do it with all your might. Have you not sinn'd with all your might? and shall your sins be crying sins, and your prayers whispering prayers? Will you run when the world calls, and ⟨p. 142⟩wil you creep when God calls? You will not bear it that a man speak to you when you speak to another; and will you bear it, that the world should speak to you while you speak to God. But,

Fourthly, Is it not a reasonable thing that we should do that work with all our might which is our only work, and the work which we came into the world for? Now we did not come in•o the world to get riches or credit. We h•ve nothing here to do but to serve the Lord; all other things are subordinate to that. And if you look into Scripture, you shall find that the Lord only stands upon this work. Thou shalt worship the •ord, and him only shalt thou serve, only let your conversation be as becometh, &c. Here doth the only stand. Yea, says Solomon, this is the whole of man, Eccles. 12.13