A Body of Practical Divinity

17. We glorify God by an holy Life: Christianorum religio ha•c sine macula vivere lactant; As a bad Life doth dishonour God, 1 Pet. 2.9. Ye are an holy nation, that ye should show forth the praises of him that hath called you. Rom. 2.24. The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you. Epiphanius saith, That the Looseness of some Christians in his time, made many of the Heathen shun the Company of the Christians, and would not be drawn to hear their Sermons. So by our exact Bible-conversation we glorify God; though the main Work of Religion lies in the Heart, yet our light must so shine, that others may behold it; the chief of Building is in Foundation, yet the Glory of it is in Frontis-piece, so Beauty in the Conversation: When the Saints who are called Jewels, cast a sparkling Lustre of Holiness in the Eyes of the World; when they walk as Christ walked, 1 Joh. 2.6. when they live as if they ⟨p. 8⟩had seen the Lord with bodily Eyes, and been with him upon the Mount; then they adorn Religion, and bring Revenues of Glory to the Crown of Heaven.

17. We glorifie God by an holy Life: Christianorum religio ha•c sine macula vivere lactant; As a bad Life doth dishonour God, 1 Pet. 2.9. Ye are an holy nation, that ye should shew forth the praises of him that hath called you. Rom. 2.24. The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you. Epiphanius saith, That the Loosness of some Christians in his time, made many of the Heathen shun the Company of the Christians, and would not be drawn to hear their Sermons. So by our exact Bible-conversation we glorifie God; though the main Work of Religion lies in the Heart, yet our light must so shine, that others may behold it; the chief of Building is in Foundation, yet the Glory of it is in Frontis-piece, so Beauty in the Conversation: When the Saints who are called Jewels, cast a sparkling Lustre of Holiness in the Eyes of the World; when they walk as Christ walked,