you keep always in the Praying Posture that you may be carried through' them. 'Tis our Hope, that in your Ministry, yea, and in your whole Behaviour, you will have your Eye upon a Glorious CHRIST continually, and be a Star always leading your Neighbours unto Him. You will observe the Description once given of one, for whom a Preferment was Designed, Nihil ardet, nihil appetit, nihil somniat praeter JESUM CHRISTUM: To know, and serve, and Resemble a precious CHRIST will be the Top of your Ambition. 'Tis our Hope, That you will extend your Pastoral Cares with most engaging Adaptations, to every part of your Flock, but very particularly the Young People in it; Instruct them, Advise them, lay the Cha•ges of GOD upon them, and with irresistible Importunity persuade 'em to Early Piety; Be earnest with them, and never satisfied until you see them come to Religion in earnest, ⟨p. 37⟩I will add but one Word more, The Churches of the Neighbourhood Hope it of you, That you will be Faithful to their True and Best Interests: That is to say, That you do your part for the preserving them, upon the Glorious Foundations of Conformity to the Laws of our Saviour, which was the professed End of these Plantations. A New Meeting-House erected by a Church of our Brethren on the other side of the Atlantic, had those Words engraven on the Walls of it; Built not for a Faction, nor a Party, but for promoting Faith and Repentance, in Communion with all that Love our Lord Jesus Christ in Sincerity. It is the Glory our Churches, that this noble Motto belongs to them, Not for a Faction or a Party, but for promoting Faith and Repentance, in Communion with all the true Lovers of our Saviour. And the Sentence of a Worthy Man, who walked in our Way, expresses the Spirit which our Christians generally make Profession of; I will be one with every one, that is one with Christ. Such the Terms of their Communion, that we see godly Presbyterians, Independents, Episcopalians, Antipaedobaptists, and Lutherans, all in the sweet Harmony of Piety, sitting together at the same Table of the Lord in them. Nevertheless they think it their Duty, and your's too, Sir, to be steadfast in that scriptural Purity, wherein we shall express our Loyalty and Chastity to the Glorious LORD who is our Lawgiver; and who continues His Favour to them that Love Him, and keep the Second with the Rest of His Commandments.
you keep always in the Praying Posture that you may be carried thro' them. 'Tis our Hope, that in your Ministry, yea, and in your whole Behaviour, you will have your Eye upon a Glorious CHRIST continually, and be a Star always leading your Neighbours unto Him. You will observe the Description once given of one, for whom a Preferment was Designed, Nihil ardet, nihil appetit, nihil somniat praeter JESUM CHRISTUM: To know, and serve, and Resemble a precious CHRIST will be the Top of your Ambition. 'Tis our Hope, That you will extend your Pastoral Cares with most engaging Adaptations, to every part of your Flock, but very particularly the Young People in it; Instruct them, Advise them, lay the Cha•ges of GOD upon them, and with irresistible Importunity perswade 'em to Early Piety; Be earnest with them, and never satisfied until you see them come to Religion in earnest, ⟨p. 37⟩I will add but one Word more, The Churches of the Neighbourhood Hope it of you, That you will be Faithful to their True and Best Interests: That is to say, That you do your part for the preserving them, upon the Glorious Foundations of Conformity to the Laws of our Saviour, which was the professed End of these Plantations. A New Meeting-House erected by a Church of our Brethren on the other side of the Atlantic, had those Words engraven on the Walls of it; Built not for a Faction, nor a Party, but for promoting Faith and Repentance, in Communion with all that Love our Lord Jesus Christ in Sincerity. It is the Glory our Churches, that this noble Motto belongs to them, Not for a Faction or a Party, but for promoting Faith and Repentance, in Communion with all the true Lovers of our Saviour. And the Sentence of a Worthy Man, who walked in our Way, expresses the Spirit which our Christians generally make Profession of; I will be one with every one, that is one with Christ. Such the Terms of their Communion, that we see godly Presbyterians, Independents, Episcopalians, Antipaedobaptists, and Lutherans, all in the sweet Harmony of Piety, sitting together at the same Table of the Lord in them. Nevertheless they think it their Duty, and your's too, Syr, to be stedfast in that scriptural Purity, wherein we shall express our Loyalty and Chastity to the Glorious LORD who is our Lawgiver; and who continues His Favour to them that Love Him, and keep the Second with the Rest of His Commandments.
