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and who at best content your selves with and sit down on a form of Religion, who never studied to die to the world, and never made it your business in good earnest, to Mortify your lusts, and to be holy in the inward frame of your souls: Is this, think ye, to have your Conversation in Heaven? Would ye know then, if ever ye have studied Christianity seriously; ⟨p. 122⟩try it by this, viz. Whether ye have been heavenly in your conversation; for however ye Judge of your selves, God will most certainly Judge you according to this Rule and qualification of a Christian: It is both sad and strange to think, how it comes to pass, that many of you bear and bolster up your selves with a hope of Heaven, and profess that ye have no doubt but you shall come thither, who yet want and are void of this qualification.

and who at best content your selves with and sit down on a form of Religion, who never studied to die to the world, and never made it your business in good earnest, to Mortifie your lusts, and to be holy in the inward frame of your souls: Is this, think ye, to have your Conversation in Heaven? Would ye know then, if ever ye have studied Christianity seriously; ⟨p. 122⟩try it by this, viz. Whether ye have been heavenly in your conversation; for however ye Judge of your selves, God will most certainly Judge you according to this Rule and qualification of a Christian: It is both sad and strange to think, how it comes to pass, that many of you bear and bolster up your selves with a hope of Heaven, and profess that ye have no doubt but you shall come thither, who yet want and are void of this qualification.

I know such will be ready to Object, Who are they that come this length? To which I shall only Answer, That, as I would be very loth to quench any smoking flax, or to break any bruised reed (whereof our Lord and Master is very tender) or to cast water of discouragement upon any the least spark or spunk of sincerity, where there is any honest aiming to walk according to this Rule; So, I cannot, I dare not but say to others, in the first Place; have ye walked under the conviction of this as a duty incumbent on you? and have ye seriously Proposed it to your selves as your great business in the World, to be sincerely aiming at, and endeavouring after this Conversation in Heaven? or have ye not rather had peace (such as it was) when ye said your prayers morning and evening, though ye did not so much as design or aim at this throughout the day? And can ye with any shadow of reason think, ye have attained it or can attain it, who never seriously proposed this as a Rule to your selves to walk by, nor never had a Conscience-disquieting challenge for such neglect and manifest short-coming? 2. What Labour are ye at, what pains take ye to prosecute such a design and blessed project as this? It's one thing to pray, to be about external duties of Religion, and to be a Christian in the letter; and another thing to be in these duties after a