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Secondly, If you would walk worthy of God, &c. Observe what the great design of God is in the world, and labour all you can to advance the same: The great design of God in the world, is to glorify himself in his Son. Now when a man does pray to God, and Christ shall do the thing for him that he prays for; then the Father is glorified in the Son. John 14.13. Whatever ye shall ask in my Name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. And when a man does hear Christ, and believe in Christ, and obey Christ, as sent of the Father; Then he glorifies God the Father in the Son.

Secondly, If you would walk worthy of God, &c. Observe what the great design of God is in the world, and labour all you can to advance the same: The great design of God in the world, is to glorifie himself in his Son. Now when a man does pray to God, and Christ shall do the thing for him that he prays for; then the Father is glorified in the Son. John 14.13. Whatever ye shall ask in my Name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. And when a man does hear Christ, and believe in Christ, and obey Christ, as sent of the Father; Then he glorifies God the Father in the Son.

Thirdly, In case you have any work to do, first go to God before you try other means; it is no great honour to God to come to him in the last place, when you have no whether else to go, and to trust God when you can trust none else. But to believe in the face of Impossibility, and to love over the head of Injury, and to pray when all is dead and down; This is worthy of God.

Fourthly, Observe what that is that hath been your god, and give that to God. Bishop Babington (who was a good man in his time) observes, that the Children of Israel did sacrifice to God that which was the gods of other Nations; and herein they honoured God. If you can give that