no worse nor fare no worse then I why soul is this comfort to hear such words on a Cross what is this then to have such words on a Throne to hear Christ say on a Cross you shall do no worse then I that 's no small comfort but how much more when Christ saith you shall be on my Throne with me to behold my glory time was indeed may be when thou sawest my Servants Blood shed for their Testimony of me and brought before Kings and Rulers for my name sake ah but now there is an end of that sight with thee thou shalt be with me to behold my glory well soul 't is possible thou mayst have troubles without and corruptions within yet here is comfort for thee these shall have an end thou that art in Christ mayst therefore lift up thy head For thy Redemption draweth nigh Luke 21. 28. And now a word of exhortation and I have done I have but three things to exhort and perswade Saints unto and as many to perswade sinners to and I have done because I doubt I am tedious and I beseech you all to suffer the word of exhortation which first speaketh to the Saint on this wise if it be so that the sins of believers are passed over by Vertue of the Blood of Jesus First Then be exhorted and perswaded to mix nothing of thy own with Christ's Blood men are exceeding apt to be doing themselves Oh no soul there is nothing in thee that will help thee unless it be to damn thee 't is him and him alone that must save there are men that are sprung up lately that would be their own Saviours and yet thy will cry glory to others as I heard one of them say not long since glory glory to the Blood that purchased us and yet they will tell you that the Blood of Jesus hath no vertue nor efficacy to Save what confusion and contradiction is here among them that say other Teachers Teach contradictions but a little to note the expression and their folly in betraying themselves sometimes they say the Blood of Jesus was no better then that of Peter and Paul why what vertue had their blood to purchase a people 't is true their prayers might avail much and their exhortations might prevail much but wherein did their blood purchase us If thou saist it did confirm their Doctrine to us that 's not purchasing â—s and besides their Doctrine was sufficiently testified by the Miracles they wrought dost thou know what a purchase is is it not the obtaining of any thing by a price of equal value to what is purchased and dost thou think the blood of one man is of equal value to purchase a thousand mens souls and besides this I take notice of that word glory to the Blood that purchased us wilt thou dare to ascribe glory to the Creature why that 's Idolatry prethee mark the dillemma thou art fallen into if thou saist Christ dyed only to confirm his Doctrine I answer thou saist also thou art purchased by blood if thou saist Christ was not God but Man I answer thou saist glory to the blood that purchased us thus out of thy own mouth will I judge thee for this I heard one of their publick Teachers speak on his knees in their publick Meeting in Devonshire House thus these silly souls would make us believe they are so perfect in their order when indeed they are imperfect therein I do not speak this with any delight no I beg the Lord would open their eyes and undeceive them and saint I would say to thee what ever others do yet let Christ be all in all to thee 1 Cor. 1. 30. 'T is him who of God is made wisdom to guide and direct thee in all thy ways and 't is he that is the righteousness to cloth and cover thee all thy own righteousness is to short man and 't is he that is Senctification to cleanse thee and though thou art called upon to cleanse thy self yet it is not by the might and power of thy own repentance but by my Spirit said the Lord and he is redemption to redeem thee from sin and wrath as hath been shewn thee what ever some may tell thee assure thy self no less then that blood is a price of value to lay down and the Apostle saith We are bought with a price I confess this looks strange to humane reason but remember man and forget not 't is a mistery Great is the mistery and if you observe the Gospel calls not so much for wisdom and reason about this mistery but it calls for Faith for pray you mark in Eph. 3. where this Mistery is once and again mentioned and that it had lay hid from the beginning of the world bat now I bow my knee sait Paul that this Mistery may be made known how and in what way why saith Paul this way Vers 17. That Christ may dwell in you hearts by Faith as if the Apostle should say 't is true under the administration of the Law our Salvation did depend very much on our own working out then 't was do and live but here was no mistery in that the Mistery was hid then in a great measure I but now the mistery is to be revealed and now Faith is called for That Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith Alas the way of doing is no mistery at all if I have wronged my Neighbour in any case humane reason presently finds out this way and saith I will one way or other requite him but here is no Mistery to pay the damage or work it out no Salvation cometh not this way by working but by believing and I am perswade many souls do run themselves into errors because they look so much at Salvation in a way that sutes with their humane reason and consider not that it is in a misterious way that we are Saved but oh soul what ever thou dost look to Christ and lean not to thy own understanding oh man in thy self is nothing But in him is all fulness 1 Col. 19. Reply on him being nothing of thy own He that will be his Disciple must deny himself Matth. 16. 24. Thy self cannot save thy self no he is every way able to save thee he needs not thy help it must be Christ God hath laid help upon one that is Mighty Psal 89. 19. This is spoken of Christ and saith Christ If you are comely 't is through my comeliness that I have put upon you You it may be think to wash your selves and adorn your selves and make your selves beautiful and comely no no 'T is my comeliness that I have put upon you All this he speaks because he is very jealous of his own glory Oh saith he My Glory will I not give to another Isa 42. 8. And so Jeremy saith The way of man is not in himself That is the way of man to Heaven to Glory is not in himself but in Christ Alas 't
Carracters IN BLOOD OR A Bleeding Saviour Held out to a BLEEDING SINNER WHEREIN He may know whether he hath been called by and followed after the leadings of the Spirit Being a draught of the Spare-hours of a Lover of the Faithful By R. O. London Printed for the Author 1671. Academiae Cantabrigiensis Liber To all those into whose hands this may fall whether Teachers or Learners MY earnest Request to all is that you would take every one his Portion as you find it according to Truth what 's not Truth let that be returned to me or blotted out but if thou find ' si it truth when brought to the test of Holy Write then I advise thee to receive and embrace and put it in practice and if thou dost not resolve so to do lay it down and 〈◊〉 no further whether it be reproof to any or conjolation to any be sure not to reject it it may be it may meet with some that will cry tear it cut it burn it to the Law and to the Testimony Man if it agree not with that I say so too but if it agree with that take heed as for thy life thy Soul Man or Woman what thou dost whatever Men say Man that 's insignificant thy great concern is to hearken what God the Lord speaks if he speaks Peace man say not thou there is no peace and if he say return no more to folly take heed and venture not for Gods speaking Peace to any admits of no liberty of Sin though this be the very guise of Professors at this very day I shall say no more to thee now only begg thee to be serious and not dally with the things of thy soul R. O. 1 Cor. 5. 7. For even Christ our Pass-over is Sacrificed for us THere is not a necessity of opening the design of the Apostle in this Chapter therefore I shall not take up time nor room in it but in the Words you may please to take notice of five things First Of a Pass-over Secondly Who the Pass-over is and that is Thirdly The Service to which he is appointed and that is to be slain or sacrificed this may be proved else where as 2 Acts 23. Fourthly The end for which he is slain that is 1. To declare the glory of Gods grace 2. To work our Salvation Fifthly Here are the persons for which all this is done and that is for Believers and that is gathered from those little words us and our for even Christ our Pass-over is Sacrificed for us what us Paul and the believing Corinthians time is precious with me or else I might a little shew you the import of a Sacrifice and what it doth denote and also shew the necessity of poor Believers Offering a Sacrifice But I intreat to be excused here and that I may discourse a little Methodically let me gather up my design in a plain conclusion from the Words though many may be drawn clearly out of them and 't is this that the sins of Believers are passed over or acquitted by vertue of the Sacrifice of the Lord Jesus I shall First Prove this to be truth from the Word of Truth Secondly Show a little why it is so Thirdly Improve this point for Soul advantage First Prove that Christ is a Sacrifice for believers sins 3 Rom. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation By vertue of what or through what why his blood through Faith in his blood Pray you mark he doth say through Faith in him no then he might have done away sins and not have dyed and bled I but 't is through Faith in his Blood not through the Vertue of his Life but through his Death and if you read on you shall see that this was for the remission of sins or the passing over of sins for it will bear that sence so in Rom. 5. 6. In due time Christ dyed what for not to be an example only not for the testimony of his Doctrine but for the Ungodly he dyed and he dyed for the Ungodly yea saith Paul and the believing Romans Vers 8. When we were Sinners Christ dyed for us Mark this for sinners not for the righteous and them that be perfit but for sinners and while they were sinners us that are now Believers were Sinners when Christ dyed for us us believers that are now justified by Faith Vers 1. so Heb. 9. 12. Not by the Blood of Bulls and Goats not by the tears of our repentance and sorrow no nor by our blood but by his own Blood not our own but by his own Blood whose blood Christ the High-Priest who hath obtained eternal Redemption for us and Vers 15. For this cause he is the Mediator what cause that by means of death he might redeem the Transgressors that were under the first Testament and Ver. 26. But now once in the end of the World hath he appeared to put away sin by the Sacrifice of himself not to bring the news of sinners putting away sins by the sacrifice of themselves but by the sacrifice of himself and he was offered to bear the sins of many Vers 28. where are they then that take upon them to assert he did not bear believerssins are not these plain words need they any interpretation and here is not one single Text only but 't is the whole scope of the Apostle many more might be produced but I 'le only mentionone more and then I hope their Sandy Foundation will be shaken that build on their own faith and repentance as if that bear the burden of sin from us 1 Pet. 2. 24. Who his own self bear our sins in his own body on the Tree here 't is plain as words can make it certainly thou must renounce thy reason to deny so many plain sillables this the Prophet David prayed for and dost thou think the Spirit of God doth things in vain in the Sam. 24. 10. O Lord take away the inlquity of thy Servant so Job 7. 21. And why dost not thou take away my iniquity Dost thou think sin and the burden of it can be taken away and not be born on no back shoulders or arms how then should it be taken away and if it must be taken and born away dost thou think the Holy God the infinite first being absolutely considered in his own essence and nature in an abstractive sence disunited to the Humane nature dost thou think the God head purely considered will come under sin to bear it away no purity it self is to pure to look on sin much less to touch sin as it were no no poor deluded Creature God in his simple essence and being cannot bear sin but clothing himself with our nature he can hear sin away for which cause he is called the Lamb of God that taketh away Sin John 1. 29. A Lamb is queit and dumb before the Shearer which place will well serve to expound that place Isa 53. 7. Which thou wilt not have understood
us look back on the patience of Christ it may be it may raise our hearts a little he is not like furious man that will be gone if they will not hear at the first or second knock he will in a spleen be gone but Christ waits tell his head is wet with the Dew c. methinks this should make us willing to wait on him it may be he doth not presently answer all our requests It may be with Paul thou and I have some thorn in the Flesh that we have sought God for the taking of it away and we begin to be impatient and to say we have waited and prayed and looked long and yet 't is not taken away we looked for peace and behold no good we looked for healing and behold trouble and we begin to fret and say as Jehoram King of Israel did when trouble began to arise and the Famine increase 2 Kings 6. 33. Behold this evil is of the Lord what should we wait for the Lord any longer Ah poor soul whoever thou art I pitty thee that hast been at any time in this sad temper but stay thy self soul with this that Christ waited tell his head was wet with the Dew c. And to what end did he and doth he wait but to be gracious so he saith Is. 30 18 And therefore doth the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you Note the force of that word therefore for that very end that he may be gracious Oh! how long hath he waited for you it may for some ten twenty thirty fourty years and yet he saith he will wait Therefore will the Lord wait not onely hath but will wait Oh why then should not we wait then for him I but dost thou find after all this waiting that Jesus Christ is come in thou wilt say it may be I would have Christ for my Saviour First Hast thou received him for thy Priest the Priest's under the Law were changed by reason of mortallity but this man because he continueth for ever hath an unchangeable Priest-hood but art thou able to say thou art willing to cast thy self on him to bear away thy iniquities I tell thee he is able to bear them there is help laid on one that is mighty and he is able to save to the utmost all that come to God by him Heb. 7. 25. And he is not one that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but was tempted as we are that he might the better succour them that are tempted and because of this Priest-hood We may come boldly to the Throne of Grace Heb. 4. 15. Heb. 2. 8. Alas we durst not have looked God in the Face had not Christ been our Priest and undertaken this but now we may come boldly and plead Christ with him Oh who shall condemn 't is Christ that dyed Rom. 8. 34. Yea when he let Angels go those noble Creatures yet he condescended to take on him the Seed of Abra'm he would be a Priest for poor lost man Heb. 2. 16. Yea he by this bare our iniquities into the Wilderness of forgetfulness Lev. 16. 21. And truly we had need of one to bear away not only the iniquity of our transgression but to bear the iniquities of our services he is the Antitipe of Aaron the Priest to bear away the iniquity of our Holy things Exod. 28. 38. When poor Believers are troubled with vain thoughts and their Spirits are wandring in Prayer or Hearing or Meditation or Reading These Worm eaten services the worms of evil thoughts will be creeping in and eating out the heart of our prayers yet Christ will bear away the iniquity of these Holy things yea when not only vain but wicked thoughts come in as in Prov. 5. 14. I was almost in all evil in the midst of the Congregation Yea thy very secret sins which made David cry out Cleanse me from my secret sins Psal 19. 12. Yet he is a Priest to bear away all sorts of sins The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sins Now Soul try thy self art thou willing to have Christ for thy Priest do not deceive thy self 't is not so easie to take Christ for thy Priest 't is no small matter to come of from thy self Secondly Hast thou received Christ for thy Prophet to teach thee All Gods Children shall be taught of the Lord Isa 54. 13. And a Prophet shall the Lord thy God raise up unto thee of thy brethren him shall ye hear in all things Acts 3. 22. And this was of old Prophesied by Jacob Gen. 49. 13. The Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come and to him shall the gathering of the people be this Shiloh was Christ and this gathering of the people to hear him begun to be fulfilled Luke 19. 48. For all the people were very attentive to hear him or as some margins have it they hanged on him Now art thou willing to hear him and to hang on his lip to be taught by him and none other and to hear no other Doctrine then what he Teaches dost thou indeed take him for thy Prophet and with the Apostle Gal. 1. 9. Dost account him accursed that brings any other news of Salvation This is a second way we should receive Christ But I proceed to the next Thirdly Dost thou receive Christ for thy King to Rule and give thee Laws as well as teach thee Isa 33. 22. The Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King not only King to save us but our Law-giver to rule us He is our King and he will save us we must not think to be Kings our selves Alas what can we do but he will save us save us from sins Matth. 1. 21. And he will save us from our enemies too the people of Israel did not save themselves by their own arm but by the Lords arm and by the Lords right hand Psal 44. 3. so in Hos 1. 7. I will have mercy on the House of Israel and will save them How by themselves by their own arm not so the Text tells you by the Lord their God and 't is Christ that is that horn of Salvation in Luke 1. 69 71. That will save us from our enemies and from the hand of them that hate us and it is he in Isa 63. 1. That is Mighty to save and as he will rule in the Salvation of his people so he will rule secondly in the destruction of his enemies Jam. 4. 12. As he is able to save so likewise to destroy He shall Rule his enemies with a Rod of Iron Psal 2. 9. Psal 110. 2. God will send the Rod of his strength out of Zion and he shall rule in the midst of his enemies and Vers 6. He shall wound the heads of many Countries Though the proud ones of the World say this man shall not Reign over us yet he will bring them into subjection whether they will or no have but
unwarrantable paths and have no Scripture light to guide them they take up things on trusts it may be because such and such do so but the true Believer will not do so He knows many be called but few chosen Matth. 20. 16. And narrow is the Way and straight is the Gate Luke 7. 13. Poor soul thou seest the great numbers of the World running after their lusts and taking their swing in ungodly ways in excessive eating and drinking and rioting I and the professing world too they are posting on as fast though in a more pleausible way in their pride and ambition and haughtiness in their conformity to the foolish fashions of this World which vanish away Oh how many in England that are glorious professors are Non-conformists to the Worlds worship that yet at the same time are real Conformist's to an Harlots attire and other professors are posting as fast after the world as if indeed it were their only happiness and all this because there are so many do so and yet counted Saints but now if thou art one that dost not delight in the way of the multitude 't is a good sign God hath set thee a part for himself Eighthly He that Christ hath dyed for will be good in bad times and bad places so it was with Noah in the old World so with Lot in Sodom and Joseph in Aegypt I need not quote these places they are so well known thus it was with Nehemial with those Sabbath-breakers and with Job in the Land of â—z and so with David Psal 120. 5. Wo is me that Isojourn in Mesech and dwell in the Tents of Kedar so in Revel 2. 13. 'T is spoken of the Church of Pergamus I know thy works and where thou dwellest even where Satans Seat is this was a bad place and yet there thou holdest fast my Name and hast not denyed my Faith Note here Satans Seat was the place where the Devils Servants did Tiranize over the Saints and yet in that wicked place they held fast the Faith these were some of those Virgins that are spoken of in the Rev. 14. 4. That were not defiled with Women Virgins what were they them that were never Married were they them that vowed Chastity no that 's not the meaning of it but they were clean from being defiled with false Worship they did not meddle with Idols and false Worship and this is called in the Rev. 14. 2. Fornication he speaks there of Fornication by Idolatry and they were not defiled with this Womanish worship which is else where called no less then Whoredom Hos 2. 2. Let her put away her Whoredom out of her sight what did she commit Whoredom with Men no Ezek. 6. 9. will clear it With their eyes they went a Whoring after their Idols now these were they that were not defiled with Idols and therefore are called Virgins Oh who would defile ones self with such filth but if thou keep thy garments pure in such a day 't is a good sign Christ hath clansed thee Ninethly 'T is a sign thou art a servant of Christ when he calls thee to his work and thou dost not stand parlying with him whether it may be for thy advantage or no when Christ calls men to his work they oft times consult whether it be for their advantage or for their profit or their honour or their safety and they stand parlying with Christ under pretence of prudence and for their security but now his servants will go readily about his work they will not stand parlying whether they shall or shall not go about his work this is no vain notion of my own brain I 'le give thee Scripture for it Look in the Gal. 1. 15. Vers 16. When it pleased God to call Paul by his Grace and to reveal his Son in him to preach among the Heathen what then did he plead and say will iâ— be for my safety will it not be prudence to forbear a while to see the event of things no saith Paul But immediately I conferred not with Flesh and Blood I did not stand but went into Arabia c. Now soul canst thou say thou goest to Christ's work without parlying 't is a good sign Christ hath called there Tenthly 'T is a sign thou art one that Christ is Sacrificed for if thou delightests in the will of God saith David Thy Law is written in my heart how doth that appear why I delight to do thy will one that delights to do the will of God 't is a good sign Gods Law is written in his heart now the will of God is made know in his Law and therefore he that delight in the Law of God doth delight in his Will And blessed are they that delight in his Law Psal 1. 2. And that delighteth in his Commandments No less I am sure then fourteen times in the Psalm 119. doth David express his delight in the Law Statutes and Testimonies of God as you may see with a cast with your eye in 14. 16 24 32 35 47 54 70 77 92 111 143 162 174. Verses besides the many places more in the Psalms ah soul dost thou delight and delight greatly in the Law of God But I would not be too tedious Eleventhly 'T is a sign thou art Gods if thou dost what thou dost for God willingly Psalm 110. 3. Thy people shall be a willing people in the day of thy power when the power of the Lord takes hold on thy heart thou wilt be willing to serve him and in 1 Chron. 29 9. A willing mind and a perfect heart are put together and if there be first a willing mind then thou art able to do but little for God yet 't is accepted 2 Cor. 8 12. These things might be much spread or expatiated but time is very precious with me Twelfthly 'T is a good sign thou art a child of God if thou dost desire to enjoy the ordinances of God as thou wast wont to do such an expression David hath some where so in Psal 27. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord what 's that That I may dwell in the House of the Lord That is in the assembly of the Saints and so in Psal 26. 8. Lord I have loved the habitation of thy House and the place where thine honour dwelleth He had experience what God was used to communicate there why David could you not rather love the place where all your Courtiers and Nobles and where are all the Royal retinue Oh no I have loved the place where thyne honour dwelleth This was that which made the Apostle Paul exhort them in Heb. 10. 25. Not to forsake the assembling of themselves together there be some do forsake the assembling of themselves together I but saith Paul do not you do so why he knew that there Christ was used to display his Banner of Love over them in thy presence is fulness of joy Psal 16. uls I a little kind of Heaven there to them that
is not in man to direct his steps Jer. 10. 23. And therefore in all our ways we should acknowledge him he will have man have nothing to do in his own Salvation 't is true man must move in the strength of God but he must not look to himself who must he look to then he himself tells you Isa 45. 22. Look unto me all ye ends of the Earth And be ye saved no may we not do somewhat our selves no no said God why Lord For I am God and there is none else Plainly intimating that none can save but God himself oh then take heed of bringing in any thing with Gods Salvation in the time of the Law God commanded that men should not wear a Garment of divers sorts as of Wollen and Linnen together Deut. 22. 11. An excellent word to teach us that we should not wear the Wollen of our's which will gall to the bone with the Linnen of Christs own righteousness no he would have us have nothing of ours for righteousness but all his for righteousness and on that do thou trust though he kill thee as Job speaks Job 13. 15. Yet trust in him for he will save by himself therefore take heed and mix nothing with Christ's blood Secondly Be perswaded not to draw back from him if any draw back his soul will have no pleasure in him Heb. 10. 38. Ah soul I know not so well what thou hast as I know what I have but I have mine iniquity and I do fear so hast thou few that ever I met with but had one beloved above all other this is that David kept himself from Psal 18. 23. I kept my self from mine iniquity Oh take heed that thine iniquity do not draw thee back but follow the Lord and keep on his way not only begin but follow on Hes 6. 3. Then shall we know if we follow on to know the Lord there is the mark of the prize of the high calling in Christ before but take heed and look forward for if thou look back there is Hell behind at thy heels if thou draw back it will be to perdition Oh that we may never draw back for if we do the fault will be ours for God if he hath begun a good work will go on to perform it or as it may be read finish it Phill. 1. 6. Let us then go on after Christ and not draw back from him but Thirdly And lastly to the Saints live as it becometh those that are called by him and make profession of him hath he loved thee with an everlasting love and therefore with loving kindness hath he drawn thee Jer. 31. 3. And wilt thou not answer his love by thy Life Oh soul wilt thou not stand for him and own him in bad days wilt thou not plead his cause against all enemies that plead's thy cause with the Father hath God given thee a gift oh improve it for Christ thy Lord he hath dyed for thee and wilt not thou live to him doth he appear before God for thee and wilt not thou appear before Men for his Name sake 't is sad to see how men sneak away and diseart Christ's cause under fine specious pretences 't is not prudence to do things say they when Authority would not have it so and so they have a pretence to cover themselves with that pretence this kind of Spirit was found in some of old in Holy Philpots time said he some persons make themselves a Clock to keep of the Rain with pretence of obeying Magistrates whom we ought to obey though they be evil and wicked but saith he such must learn to give Caesar his and God his due and with Peter obey the higher powers in the Lord c. this he speaks by reason of the cowardness of their Spirits in their Masters cause but oh soul that I could prevail with thee and my own soul to stand to Christs cause Oh I call Heaven and Earth to witness this day bear witness all ye that see or hear of this that I call upon you to plead Christ caused and hold fast his Name and not run away and leave Christ oh live as those that become the Gospel in this very thing oh sad 't is to tell there be some that in this respect have cause the very adversary to speak reproach fully and to blaspheme and as these are cowardly in Christs cause so there are others very debauched in their practices would to God there were no cause to say professors keep loose company many there are that keep a Club with vain Fellows I and I am afraid many times drink to excess oh take shame to your selves who are guilty this is loathsom in the sight of the truly Godly and I tell you you give them just occasion to judge you Hypocritical and rotten at the heart and to spare no rank let me be plain with you who take it upon you to be the Lords Watchmen you of the Ministry 't is sad that you that should be reproevers should fall justly under reproof or rather for I am on exhortation now you that should exhort others should need be exhorted and yet what lives do some of you lead I am ashamed to say debauched of you Oh insteed of a holy self denying life how many of you live an Earthly flesh pleasing life and how are your Families trained up insteed of the School of Christ it may be in a Dancing-School or at the Musick is this a life that becometh Professors but by this time I think I hear some of you begin to say is not it lawful to recreate our selves I am not minded here to answer all the cavils that the flesh will raise but this I 'le said Paul said indeed All things were lawful that is as I conceive with respect to conscience of his own but not expedient that is with respect to conscience of anothers and to my knowledge there are some hardened by your practices Oh how sad is it to see Ministers Wives Children and Families as well as other Professors come into the Congregation and insteed of being patterns of piety are patterns of Pride that insteed of having it said of them they were Modest and adorned with meekness and humility in modest apparel shameful it might be said they were proud high-minded and clad in gaudy Robes like pictures set to sell but I leave you to dispute it with one that will nonplusse you in all your disputations and silence all your objections but Saint thou that art truly such what ever others do though they Eclipse and darken the Glory of God and Religion yet do thou let thy light so shine that others may see thy good works and glorifie God Oh soul have a shinning conversation so saith the Apostle Phill. 1. 27. Only let your conversation be as becometh the Gospel Art thou Christ's live as one that wouldst honour Christ it will be an honour to Christian profession it will be a comfort to