Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

I did not think my self a little bound to that Providence, which gave you Relation to our Parish; and I suppose not without cause, when the power of godliness hath few such considerable Patrons.¹ Men of your rank, though sometimes (to stop the mouth of conscience, or for their credit) they take up a form and profession, yet do usually neglect, if not cursedly deride the strictness and power of Religion. They are too often like the Moon farthest from, and in most direct opposition unto the Sun of Righteousn sse, when they are at the full of outward plenty, and receive most light of Divine bounty from him: their carnal hearts, as the Sea, turn the showers of mercies from heaven, and fresh streams from the earth, into the salt waters of corruption. In our natural bodies, the more fat there is, the less blood in the veins, ⟨image 3⟩and by consequence the fewer spirits. Greatness and Goodness are beautiful and happy,² but rare conjunctions. You know who hath said, Not many such are called, 1 Cor. 1.26. And experience teacheth us, that they are like Stars of the first Magnitude thinly scattered in the Firmament of a Country. How much therefore are you engaged to that distinguishing love, which enableth you to look after the things of a better life!

I did not think my self a little bound to that Providence, which gave you Relation to our Parish; and I suppose not without cause, when the power of godliness hath few such considerable Patrons.¹ Men of your rank, though sometimes (to stop the mouth of conscience, or for their credit) they take up a form and profession, yet do usually neglect, if not cursedly deride the strictness and power of Religion. They are too often like the Moon farthest from, and in most direct opposition unto the Sun of Righteousn sse, when they are at the full of outward plenty, and receive most light of Divine bounty from him: their carnal hearts, as the Sea, turn the showers of mercies from heaven, and fresh streams from the earth, into the salt waters of corruption. In our natural bodies, the more fat there is, the lesse blood in the veines,