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A66610	Totum hominis, or, The whole duty of a Christian, consisting in faith and good life abridged in certain sermons expounding Paul's prayer for the Thessalonians, Epist. 2, Chap. 1, Vers. 11, 12 / by the late reverend and worthy Mr. Samuel Wales ...	Wales, Samuel.; Wharton, Philip Wharton, Baron, 1613-1696.; Wharton, Thomas, Sir.	1681 (1681)	Wing W296; ESTC R41158	76,673	232

renewed our souls repaired than our decaying bodies bodily strength by daily food Now Prayer is that which gets these vvants supplied fetcheth from Heaven that blessing by vvhich spiritual strength and stature is augmented yea by exercising and stirring up Gods graces in the heart increaseth them Fifthly We are commanded every day to lead holy lives to walk as becometh Saints to have our conversation in Heaven to pass the time of our dwelling here in fear to spend that which remaineth of our life not according to the lusts of the flesh but according to the will of God Novv Prayer is a necessary help and prop of a godly life a good means of quickening seasoning well-ordering the heart of vvinding it up from Earth to Heaven and of passing thorough all the parts and businesses of the day christianly and purely Lastly vve are every day yea every hour subject to many dangers outward in our bodies families estates inward in our Souls Satan incessantly vvatcheth all opportunities to do us a displeasure to strike us to the heart vvith some fiery dart to overthrovv our goings lays snares for us in the most lawful things provocations to sin abound every vvhere hovv soon are vve distempered dissetled hovv hardly brought into good frame again Novv Prayer is our Hedge fencing us an excellent Weapon by vvhich vve drive back Satan and overcome the evils vvithin or vvithout vvhich encounter us Have vve not need to be daily armed vvith such a notable help that so vve may stand fast against temptations vvalk safely and hold fast peace vvith God This Doctrine if vve descend to application vvill first reprove Three sorts 1. Those that Pray not at all except in the publick Assembly that rise up and lie dovvn daily vvithout request-making to God urge upon them praying at home their reply is ready that 's too much purity they have other things to mind and vvill leave that burden to the Minister The Scripture hath long since branded these for Atheists Not Papists only but even Gentiles shall condemn them one of which counselleth his Brother every Morning and Evening to offer to God pure incense and oblation that Gods favour may be towards him and he may have success in his affairs If amongst us after so long teaching any continue in this sin let them know that as Gods fear is not in their hearts so God is not in their houses for he dwels where he is worshipped by prayers and praises the Devil rules all and unless they repent the curse of God as a canker shall consume them and theirs 2. Those that pray by fits only as when Conscience gnawes fickness binds them to their beds death threatens business calls not or suffer any worldly any trivial occasion to break off or justle out this duty Shall I fear to say this seeking Gods help only in extraordinary straits argueth that men think they can do well enough ordinarily without his help and by their own wit strength industry compass their own ends and desires which a Papist will tell them is Gentilism Had some of these Men a Neighbour who would never visit them but when some urgent necessity did press him would they not suspect his affections towards them to be cold and that he cared little for their company I dare assure them the Lord judgeth of them as they of this Neighbour It may justly be doubted vvhether ever they knew the necessity or selt the sweetness of true Prayer Let us fear least if we send for and entertain Prayer but now and then as a stranger God be strange to us when we vvould most gladly be acquainted with him 3. Those that are fallen from their former Conscience and care of practising private prayer whoseharts can tell them they are particularly touched if I do but say there are some amongst us vvho in former times were as forward and servent this way as the best and are now become as careless of praying as the prophane It s easie to shevv the reason why they are weary of Prayer They have banished the holy Ghost and entertained the unclean Spirit again which carries them to swearing drinking delighting in bad company and those abominations from vvhich they were washed vvhence it is that they have lost both skill and will to call upon God they are condemned by their own Mouths by their own Consciences when they do pray and therefore dare not call upon God but flie from his presence The Lord be merciful unto you that you sleep not the sleep of death but may remember whence you are fallen and come out of the snare of the Devil I say unto you in the name of the Lord take heed you become not very Cains spiritual vagabonds straying and running further and further from God till you arrive in the land of eternal horrour Secondly let all the Servants of God continue their holy care of daily offering the Sacrifice of invocation Observe the seasons and occasions of prayer as thou dost thy Meal-times Persevere in Prayer and faint not Resolve with thy self rather to strive to perform this duty in a better manner and more abundantly than to break it off and take liberty to neglect it Brethren why are we so backward to come unto him to whom the oftner vve come the more we are vvelcome the more importunate the more acceptable Whence is it that every Year we see or hear of strange punishments heavy accidents befalling men whereby they are brought to misery or untimely death Is it not hence that true Prayer is out of request with the most Whence is it that many ahve no better success in their Earthly Callings and Affairs They pray not Whence that we hear Men complain their Houses are insested with Spirits all such things are not fables and illusions though many be There is no Prayer in their Houses Whence is it that we find not help or more comfort and strength in our troubles We pray not Whence that many of us are ensnared and overturned by every temptation We Pray not Pray and thou canst not want any good thing which God can give unless the want be better for thee than the possession In few words think seriously of thine own need and the great gain of Prayer the danger and hurt of careless and willing neglect of it how highly it honours God and I shall not need to use many reasons for perswading thee to assiduity and constancy in the performance of it Far be it from any truly fearing God to think a Christian may be as strong and well armed against temptations as heavenly minded as able to walk holily and faithfully in his calling to preserve peace and purity of heart without Prayer as with it They that are thus minded shall I hope acknowledge before they die if they belong to God that this is not the perswasion of him that called them Thus much of the circumstance of time The second point is the motive or cause which induced

Many of better proficiency are to be censured who finding in themselves some seeds and elementary rudiments of godliness let fall the fails of their desires and sit down well contented I wish this Corinthian and Laodicean-like fulness be not a sickness too common among Christians but I fear too many not of the worst sort of our hearers if once they have but thus far profited in Christianity that they can thank God they are much reformed in mind and life or perswaded of the truth of their conversion think themselves rich enough they have gotten grace sufficient to save their souls and now they are well-satisfied they will not trouble themselves to labour for any more This is to manifest our own consciences being witnesses we have no questions we feel no poverty of spirit we complain of no wants our secret sighs and fervent longings for grace are dried up and withered the temper of our spirits is cold and dead as the winter season our affections are grown flat and frozen we please our selves in a conceit or self-sufficiency and that more holiness than we have already attained is superfluous But brethren if we be so easily so quickly satisfied and glutted with Gods dainties which make true believers more hungry I testifie unto you we may justly fear that we never rightly tasted at least never kindly digested them but have all this while dreamed and been deluded by Satan and consequently doubt of our conversion Assure your selves when God shall call us to an account such a time will come and how soon we know not we shall have small comfort in looking back and recounting what a long rich spiritual seed-time and harvest we have enjoyed wherein manifold means and opportunities of getting a fair stock of grace have been plentifully afforded and we in the mean time like loitering sons of shame dallying with Gods bounty and neglecting to redeem the season have gathered little Secondly Vse 2 if the godly must desire it followeth that in the use of all sanctified means they must labour for the accomplishment of all Gods gracious pleasure in themselves all gifts accompanying salvation We must not rest in any measure of holiness but press after perfection of every grace and never rest till we see yea feel powred upon our heads all the goodness that God hath promised to shew his children in this life Truly as the heathen King is reported to have wept when he heard a Philosopher speak of more worlds than one because himself had not yet conquered one so it s a thing much to be lamented that whereas God hath provided for his children even in this world such a liberal portion of grace as might make their lives an heaven upon earth the most of us enjoy and receive so little the reason whereof is because we are not covetous enough we beg not in good earnest or else second not our prayers with suitable endeauours we aim not at a great measure Alas that we should be so poor and have a father so able so willing to enrich us I beseech you therefore if there he any consolation in Christ if ever you have tasted how good the Lord is stick not in beginnings call upon your selves to strive and endeavour after the highest degree of mortification and power to resist and conquer remnants of corruptions the highest degree of all positive graces knowledge faith love joy fear c. the highest degree of chearful and constant obedience of lively and fruitful walking before the Lord the highest degree of peace and comfort of strength stedfastness boldness The means in which we must strive are 1. A constant attending upon publick ordinances especially the Word preached and the Lords Supper which God hath sanctified for perfecting the Saints and by which he is wont more and more to convey his graces into the souls of those who use them with pure and prepared hearts 2. Feeding much upon Christ by application of he promises drawing and keeping near him in our spirits taking all occasions of looking up and speaking to him often bringing and baring your hearts before him as husbandmen do the roots of their trees before the Sun the reason is because he is not onely the fountain of goodness who makes the spirits of those that delight in approaching to him and walking with him watered gardens but also that Sun of righteousness whose sweet and quickening heat doth enliven regenerate renew impregnate with spiritual graces and fruits the invisible world of believing souls and advance the same to persection spiritually as this visible Sun doth creatures in this visible world naturally the more communion any one hath with this fountain this Sun the more grace he shall be sure to have 3. Plying God with fervent prayers springing from spiritual hunger and deep sense of our own beggery intreating him by the wind of his Spirit To blow upon the garden of our hearts that the spices thereof may flow forth 4. Improving Song 4.16 and blowing up grace by spiritual exercises of reading finging meditation conference private communication of gifts 5. Evacuation purging out by renewed repentance such matter as might cause an oppilation of those passages in which grace should flow unto us for Christ to whom we are joyned as members if we be believers is an head full of the holy Ghost full of grace truth if we defire to receive abundantly of his fulness we must take heed the nerve of faith and pipes of Gods ordinances be not stopped or made ineffectual in us by our worldliness deadness of spirit lusts or some known corruption too indulgently handled 6. Laying our hearts low before the Lord in humiliation and humility For the low valleys because they receive most dew and rain into their bosoms are most fruitful so the humble heart the broken spirit is of all others a subject most capable of the spirit and shall be most plentifully watered with the showres of grace because the God of all grace and goodness hath promised to dwell in such a spirit Do you now see the way Walk in it that you may find rest to your souls Do you know these things Blessed are you if you do them And therefore still suffer the word of exhortation in the use of these means propound this mark to your selves To be filled with the holy Ghost with wisdom and understanding with all riches of full assurance with all might patience and long sufferance with joy and peace in believing to be full of good works of mercy and good fruits of thankfulness and Gods praises all the day Oh spare no pains for storing up abundance of grace as David said of his children the fruit of the womb happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them so may I much more truly say of the fruits of the spirit happy is the man that hath his heart full of this treasure here only covetousness yea violence is lawful and holy Say not within your selves this

unworthy to be called or accounted our brethren in Christ who hearing of our afflictions would not afford us the help of their prayers Now this is a rule in the royal Law urged also by Christ himself whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to them and that which is now their lot may be ours e're long we are subject to the same things they suffer Suppose we were out of all reach of gun-shot yet we are commanded to put our selves in their room and to be affected towards them as if their case were ours as if their afflictions were our own proper burden First then Vse 1 what manner of Christians are those who if they pray at all pray only for themselves many alas too many are of this mind may but they sit and walk in the warm Sun of prosperity sleep in a whole skin line themselves well with wordly wealth suck in the commodities of a fruitful and peaceable land let who will take thought for distressed Churches distressed Christians they will leave that to them who have little else to do To apply this somewhat more particularly We cannot be ignorant how diverse as dear to God as the best of us are at this day afflicted some pinched and pressed with penury some imprisoned some banished We have heard with our ears our neighbours have told us how some are spoiled of their goods houses children synagogues liberty of worshipping God purely their temple-songs turned into howlings some kept in sore bondage by hard cruel Lords mourning continually and drinking their own tears in abundance by reason of the oppression of the enemy and the avenger some given to be meat to the sword of the furious and sulphurous sons of Babylon who now is grieved for these breaches of Ioseph who lays them to heart the telling or hearing of these things may prove a pang of pity in us for the present but who cries earnestly to God for them who can say his soul bleeds in secret for Zions wounds and thirsts after the peace of her children as if they were his own natural parents and brethren that their miseries lie heavy upon his spirit that he bears them in his heart when he comes to God in prayer give me the man give me the man that I may pronounce him the blessed of the Lord yea one of 10000 who cannot take and find that contentment which otherwise he might and could in his own good fare quiet habitation commodious lodging sweet children to whom the best outward comforts are less pleasant and often sawced with sorrowful sighs because it goes not well with the people and Saints of the Most high Well we may here learn to judge of our selves if our houses our hearts afford no prayers for poor afflicted Christians Zeph. 3.18 if we be not sorrowful for the solemn assembly if the reproach of it be not a burden to us we are as far from a truly Christian disposition as they that are furthest dead lumps in the womb of the Church void of the spirit of Christ unworthy to be reckoned in the mystical body of Christ Secondly Vse 2 let us therefore make conscience of this duty let us never cease to commend unto the Lord his afflicted flock his peeled and persecuted people We ought to lay down our lives for them if God should call us thereunto and shall we be backward to lend them our prayers Is it likely we would spend our blood to do them good for whom we will not spend a few tears a little breath a few hearty desires and affectionate suits which we may do without hurt If the Jews in captivity must pray for the peace of heathenish Babylon how much more should the Israel of God for Jerusalem the City of God Is not the Christian Church the Spouse of Christ If we can see Christs own Spouse despightfully used trampled upon wounded and not be troubled not speak a good word for her how dare we say the love of Christ dwelleth in us The Lord no dobut hath just reasons within himself why as yet he sendeth not inlargement and deliverance to his Church but this freeth not them from blame who seeming and calling themselves the Churches chidren pray not at all or very coldly for the prosperity of their mother Nay I will say boldly this denying to help the Church against the enemy though they never conspired with the enemy makes them guilty in Gods sight of the Churches desolation as sure as he that looks on while a true man is rob'd and murthered and calls not for aid is accessary to the murther Wherefore let us now begin if hitherto we have been supine and careless and continue to be importunate petitioners for the faithful in misery oh let us double our importunity if it be possible giving the Lord no rest till he arise have mercy on Zion and stablish Jerusalem till he tread down her enemies as straw is trodden for the dunghil and raise up Carpenters which may fray and cast down the horns that have scattered Judah Zech. 1.21 that there may be no more a pricking briar to the house of Israel nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them that they may be no more a prey to the heathen but dwell safely and none may make them afraid Let us often set before our eyes their rueful condition think how many good things they want which we enjoy and how little worthy we are to enjoy what they want labour to be affected with a tender sense of their miseries that our hearts melting in compassion may send forth many zealous prayers the fruit and benefit whereof they whom we never knew never saw shall undoubtedly feel and reap in one kind or other The fourth point in order Interpretation is the ob●ect of Paul's invocation the Author of the blessings which are afterwards begged thus discribed our God that is the true God who generally is the God of the whole world The Lord of all the earth Zeck 6.5 the God of the Spirits of all flesh peculiarly of his own people Whence let us observe omitting all others only this Instruction The Lord is in special sort the God of the faithful Doctrine The godly and true believers have God to be theirs in a special manner He is my God my Fathers God Exod. 15.2 saith Moses this God is our God for ever and ever saith the Psalmist O Lord thou art my God saith the Prophet in the name of the Church The Lord my God shall come saith Zachary My God shall supply all your needs saith the Apostle And many such places there are through out the Scriptures For First Reason 1 he hath selected them out of the world and separated them from other people to be his peculiar people and embraceth them with such a love as he extendeth not to all Secondly Reason 2 he hath confirmed them to himself by making with them a

portion at once an exceeding great stock of grace but he quickly forgetting both God and himself spent it and proved a bankrupt Wherefore our heavenly Father thinks fit to give us ours by little and little that we may know and all the days of our life acknowledg our selves to be beggers depend upon him for a continual subministration of new grace learn better to husband and improve that little which he hath put into our hands First Vse 1 this Doctrine confutes all those that dream of perfection attainable in a short moment As 1. Papists teaching that in Baptism the soul is made inherently as pure spotless glorious as the Sun and grace infused by which a man is made able to fulfil the Law Alas no marvel men roave strangely speak absurdly and ignorantly of the state of grace and the saving workings of the holy Ghost when they have no experience of these things in themselves 2. Familists and such like fanaticks who boast of such a fulness of holiness that they need no further purging who if their confident affirmations may be believed have so much joy that they need or desire no more in heaven brag that they are past the doctrine of the hearts deceitfulness never crave pardon of sin and deridingly tell them that do they have their pardon on their back acknowledge no use of the Law after justification feel no need of preaching prayer Sabbaths use these things rather least they should give offence than for any necessity professing to the same purpose this to be their opinion that the new man may be so strong as it shall not need any means and to this height they are mounted in a few months I might truly say days even by hearing one or two Sermons Well we need no other argument if we be wise to perswade us to stop our ears against such erroneous spirits but this that they boast of and arrogate to themselves the possession of such things as Paul the greatest of the Apostles had not attained many years after his conversion not many before his death as appears by his complaint to the Romans his confession to the Philippians Secondly this must comfort and stay those righteous souls who are much dejected because they find much corruption and great want of grace in themselves I forbid them not to deplore and grieve for their spiritual defects not to seek to the fountain for supply and perfecting his work in them only I exhort them not to be dismaied nor to conclude they have no grace because they have not the measure they desire Thy case is the common case of all the godly not one of them but hath his wants to complain of not one of them but feeleth in himself much emptiness great weakness of holiness much ignorance vanity unbeliefe hardness deadness inordinacy of affections nay evil motions and inclinations yea the better any man is the more he discerneth and groaneth under these things and confesseth himself far short of perfect fulness Look not the Lord should deal otherwise with thee than with all the sons he brings to glory Be content therefore first to be a babe in Christ for so thou must before thou canst be a tall man be content that the seeds of grace do first poorly peep up and sprout in the mould of thy heart which in time will grow to be great herbs and fill the whole garden If thou wert recovering of a great sickness though health should return very slowly wouldst thou not be glad and praise the Author of life Do here in like manner rejoyce and bless God that thou art begotten again and come into the new World of new Creatures though thou wantest much of that strength which some have attained The third instruction is Doct. 3 Christians should desire a full measure of all graces or spiritual gifts That which Paul beggeth for his Thessalonians every believer ought to desire for himself but Paul desireth that God would accomplish in them all good things needful for their salvation This is further confirmed in those places in which the Apostle prays or testifies that he prayed for them to whom he writes Ephes 3.19 c. That they might be filled with all knowledge of Gods will abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgment be filled with the fruits of righteousness yea with all the fulness of God made perfect in every good work to do his will those places also which exhort to such things as Be ye perfect even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect be ye filled with the Spirit and such like And good reason For first Reas 1 there is a certain fulness attainable in this life which appeares because 1. God hath promised to replenish and satiate the hungry soul to poure his Spirit abundantly on his people to fill the earth with the knowledge of himself as the waters cover the sea to make the parched ground a pool the thirsty land springs of water the feeble in the Charch like David in strength so that they shall mount up with wings like Eagles run and not be weary walk and not faint Now he that promiseth wanteth neither will nor power to perform his word being the All-sufficient a most bountiful Father and Master Rich to all that call upon him giving liberally and upbraiding no man delighting in the posperity of his servants 2. The Scripture affordeth examples of such as have attained it I speak not of extraordinary persons such as the Apostles of whom joyntly it is said They were filled with the holy Ghost as the same is affirmed particularly of Peter and Paul such also as were sundry ministers believers in that first Church for example Steph'n others with him in Jerusalem Barnabas c. but of ordinary Christians Doth not the Apostle give this honourable testimony of the ancient Romanes Rom. 15.14 that he was perswaded they were full of goodness filled with all knowledge Of the Corinthians and Ephesians that they were enriched with all knowledge utterance wisdome prudemce Now that which God hath promised and the Saints have received from him why should not the godly still desire and hope to obtain If in any thing this point contradicteth other Scriptures and the places mentioned in the former Doctrine I answer fulness is either absolute such a perfection as admits no defect this is reserved for the life to come or comparative such a measure or degree of grace as sitteth falleth into a grown Christian is answerable to the age of a Father in Christ which in respect of the weak beginning of young Christians may be termed fulness this is that we affirm may be found enjoyed here on earth wch thing the Apostle also plainly teacheth for in the very same place where he denies himself to be perfect he calleth himself those believers in Philippi that were of good standing and growth in Christianity perfect wch sentences seemingly contrary are to be reconciled

is a bountiful rewarder of all diligent and faithful servants of his most beloved Son Secondly the members must follow and be conformed to the head Now Christ the head of believers first glorified his father upon earth and was afterward glorified with that glory which he had with the father before the world Therefore the faithful shall go the same way that is after they have finished their course of obedience in doing and suffering to the glory of Christ they shall be received into the glory of Christ and the Father Thirdly in glorifying the godly Christ glorifieth himself Relatives mutually give and receive honour The nobility beauty bravery discretion of a wife is an honour to the husband and the glory of the spouse of Christ shall fet forth and illustrate the glory of Christ If any ask Quest what is this glory which the Lord bestows upon his Saints that honour him I answer Answ It s either present or future Present in this world a preamble to that which shall follow in the next is either more open and manifest or more hidden and secret More manifest is when God gives them some great and famous deliverance or lifts them from a base and mean condition to places of dignity or makes them to be highly reverenced and had in precious esteem even amongst those who are of a different religion and contrary disposition Joseph had great glory in the Egyptian Court Ge. 45.13 Moses was very great in the sight of Pharoahs servants and the people of Egypt David honourable in Sauls house 1 Sa. 22.14 Mordecai in the Court of Ahasuerus Est 8.15 More secret is when the wicked who openly despise vilifie condemn the godly are forced inwardly to justify them and to feel their own consciences telling them that they or no people in the world are in an happy estate and in the way of life Whence it is that sometimes we have known Mockers and professed Enemies of Gods Servants Puritans Men call them now adays in cold bloud or in the evil day desire their prayer wish to dy their death and commit to their trust most important businesses For the spirit of glory rests upon them which causeth the face to shine and imprints that Majesty in the countenance or conversation which makes their persons no less venerable and terrible to those that hate them than amiable to those that love them Future is that wherewith they shall be crowned in the life to come when every faithful person shall be cloathed in soul and body from top to toe with such glory as shall cause admiration in men and Angels and dwell for ever with most glorious company in a most glorious Mansion of which particulars I think it not fit to treat largely in this place it shall suffice briefly to have named them because I hasten to an end First Then it follows hence Vse 1 by the rule of contraries that the end of all such as either oppugne the glory of Christ or wholly neglecting it hunt and hawk after the glory of the World shall be shame and confusion Think on this ye proud vain-glorious men who leave no stone unmoved that you may magnifie your selves whose only study and strife is to climb to the height of earthly greatness but if the name of Christ lie inglorious in the dust will not wag a tongue stir a hand or foot to lift it up Think on this ye persecutors of Christs truth ways sincere servants ponder it betimes and believe before you feel Though your excellency mount up to Heaven and your fame reach unto the ends of the Earth though all mouths should bless you all tongues extol you to the skies and all knees bow unto you yet shall you perish like your own dung leave your names as a curse which religious posterity shall abhor and detest as the smoke of a dunghil or stink of a carcase and in the day of the Lord if not in this life be brought to a shameful ruine and clothed with ignominy never to be removed Secondly Vse 2 This must comfort us against the shame of the world and encourage us patiently to bear the reproach of Christ Are we scoffed at reviled slandered by wicked tongues overwhelmed with calumnies and indignities because we are zealous for the Lord Jesus and do the things are pleasing in his sight remember the time will come when Christ shall abolish our shame and deck us with his own glory when both our persons names shall shine as the Sun in his brightness Do the children of this world disgrace us Christ will honour us Do we lose our credit with men for submitting to Christs Laws We shall recover it with advantage when Christ shall admit us to society in his own happiness to eat to drink and reign with him in his kingdom Lastly Vse 3 this should admonish and provoke us if we desire never-fading glory to be studious and zealous of Christs glory He that will neglect himself and all things for honouring Christ shall neuer want true honour tho the world think this the high way to shame and dishonour Here is a lesson for all ambitious spirits thirsting after renown Lo this is the path leading to the temple of honour O ye sons of the mighty the way to be famous and glorious is doing homage to the Son of God Exalt him in your hearts houses dominions and he shall promote you to greatest dignity Advance him by your Councils swords Authority and he shall advance you yea make you an eternal excellency Honour him in his ordinances ministers members and he shall make you high in name in grace and in honour 1 Sam. 7.9 The zeal of Gods house consumed David and God made him a great name like unto the name of the greatest men of the earth Do not think that pomp and Bravery Wit and Policy Worldly wealth preferment and power of commanding many sumptuous buildings stately tombes and monuments much less cruelty and tyranny shall immortalize your names no no its blessed conformity to Christ in true spiritual purity hearty subjection to his government and down-right resolution for his cause which shall embalm and emblemish your memorials that children unborn may admire the fragrancy and splendor of them and at last set upon your head an immarescible crown of glory Be strong therefore and do it for if you despise and pollute the Name of the Lord Jesus know for a certain that he will expose your names to contempt and make your memory not De● 9.20 If you transgress against the Lord it shall not be for your honour the seed of evil doers shall never be renowned the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it The cause of this glory remaineth in the last words according to the grace of our God and of the Lord Jesus Christ the meaning is the which glory cometh and shall be bestowed upon you O Thessalonians and all other believers from the free favour and