A Divine Cordial

Nay, not only pity sinners, but pray for them; Though they curse, do you p•ay, You will pray for persons distracted; Sinners are distracted, Luke 15.17. When he came to himself; it seems the Prodigal before conversion was not himself. Wicked men are going to execution; Sin is the halter which strangles them, Death turns them off the Ladder, and Hell is their burring place; & will not you pray for them when you see them in such danger?

Nay, not onely pity sinners, but pray for them; Though they curse, do you p•ay, You will pray for persons destracted; Sinners are distracted, Luke 15.17. When he came to himself; it seems the Prodigal before conve•sion was not himself. Wicked men are going to execution; Sin is the halter which strangles them, Death turns them off the Ladder, and Hell is their buring place; & will not you pray for them when you see them in such danger?

3. You who are effectually called honour your high calling, Ephes. 4.1. I therefore beseech §3you, that you would walk worthy ^*of the vocation wherewith you are called. Christians must keep a Decorum; they must observe the [Greek or Hebrew], what is comely^*. This is a seasonable advice, when many who profess to be called of God, yet by their loose incautious walking, they cast a blemish on Religion, whereby the ways of God a•e evil spoken of. It is Salvian's Speech, What do Pagans say when they see Christians live scandalously? Sure Christ taught them no better. Will you reproach