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The Second Use Leads us to Regrate and Expostulate with hearers and Professors of the Gospel, of this time; Though this be the thing and the only thing that they are called to, yet if we should go through and view the Conversation of the most part; O! how very unsuitable and unbecoming is it to the Gospel, even so very unsuitable, that if our hearts were tender, they would break and bleed within us to behold it; but Alas! it is a part of our unsuitableness, that we cannot suitably lament it: Little zeal for God, and sorrow for what dishonours him and reflects on the Profession of his Name, are much gone from this generation: Oh! whither shall we go, into the City or Country, to find a Conversation becoming the Gospel? We cannot be without some conviction, that we ought to be zealous ⟨p. 96⟩for the glory of God, and serious in the study of Holiness in all manner of Conversation, that the Gospel be not reproached and blasphemed: if we be so, and if such a Conversation be a duty and a very reasonable duty; how comes it to be so little minded and made conscience of? If we profess Christ to be our Husband and head, our Captain and leader, ought we not to be like him, and follow him? I take it for granted, that this will be generally assented to, as being very just and Reasonable; and yet without accomplishing a very diligent search into our own way, may we not find at the first view much, very Lamentably much unsuitableness in our walk to the Gospel? Need we descend to particulars? is not our unsuitableness obvious, palpable and undeniable? Let me but ask our selves a few questions: are we making suitable use of the promises and often meditating on them? Are we taken up with delighting our selves in God, and in the great and excellent things contained in the promises? Do we study to be like them, and suitably to improve them! Do we study to have those poor performances of duty that we go about, so qualified as the Gospel calls for? the lifelessness and whole heartedness, that manifestly discover themselves, in our very hearing of these things, declare much what we are; your Ministers are some way perplexed and puzzled how to deal with you: and know not well whether to speak or to be silent, whether to pipe or to mourn; what suitableness is there to the Gospel, when the conversation of many is so spotted? So far, Alas!

The Second Use Leads us to Regrate and Expostulat with hearers and Professors of the Gospel, of this time; Though this be the thing and the only thing that they are called to, yet if we should go through and view the Conversation of the most part; O! how very unsuitable and unbecoming is it to the Gospel, even so very unsuitable, that if our hearts were tender, they would break and bleed within us to behold it; but Alace! it is a part of our unsuitableness, that we cannot suitably lament it: Litle zeal for God, and sorrow for what dishonours him and reflects on the Profession of his Name, are much gone from this generation: Oh! whither shall we go, into the City or Countrey, to find a Conversation becoming the Gospel? We cannot be without some conviction, that we ought to be zealous