The vanity of this mortal life, or, Of man, considered only in his present…

And let us (my worthy Friends) he provoked, in our several capacities to do our parts herein; and, at least, so to live, and converse in this world, that the course and tenor of our lives may import an open asserting of our hopes in another; and may let men see we are not ashamed to own the belief of a life ⟨image 8⟩to come: Let us by a patient continuance in well-doing (how low designs soever others content themselves to pursue) seek honour, glory, and immortality to our selves; and, by our avowed, warrantable ambition in this pursuit, justify our great and bountiful Creator, who hath made us not in vain, but for so high and great things: And glorify our blessed Redeemer, who amidst the gloomy and disconsolate darkness of this wretched world, when it was overspread with the shadow of death, hath brought life and immortality to light in the Gospel. Let us labour both to see and express the power of that Religion, which hath the inchoation of the (participated) divine life, for its principle; and the perfection and eternal perpetuation thereof, for its scope and end.

And let us (my worthy Friends) he provoked, in our several capacities to do our parts herein; and, at least, so to live, and converse in this world, that the course and tenour of our lives may import an open asserting of our hopes in another; and may let men see we are not ashamed to own the belief of a life ⟨image 8⟩to come: Let us by a patient continuance in well-doing (how low designs soever others content themselves to pursue) seek honour, glory, and immortality to our selves; and, by our avowed, warrantable ambition in this pursuit, justifie our great and bountiful Creator, who hath made us not in vain, but for so high and great things: And glorifie our blessed Redeemer, who amidst the gloomy and disconsolate darkness of this wretched world, when it was overspred with the shadow of death, hath brought life and immortality to light in the Gospel. Let us labour both to seel and express the power of that Religion, which hath the inchoation of the (participated) divine life, for its principle; and the perfection and eternal perpetuation thereof, for its scope and end.