other ways is sinful and is all quite lost and you over and above in case you shall so do guilty and must give an account of your layings out as well as of your receivings in Vse a moderation and be sober in your desires and endeavours after and in your delighting and rejoycing in any worldly things as wealth credit honor preferment ease liberty and the like also in sleep and rest The Heathens many of the moral Heathens taught and practised this lesson of moderation as Cato Fabricius Scipio and very many more we read of yea Hannibal though a Souldier and Caesar an Emperor that they might not exceed the bounds they would be sure to abridge and deny themselves of much of that which was lawful in meat drink apparel recreation Houshold-furniture meerly upon the account of honor credit or esteem in the world because they judged it a brave thing to be sober and temperate and a shameful thing unworthy for a man especially if of note in the worlds esteem for wisdom to be overtaken with excess in the use of meat drink apparel c. or of passion Now what a shame is it that the Heathens Pagans that knew not the true God should go much beyond Christians in these things which know the true God end have his word to inform and direct them and are frequently called on by his Ministers and by his Providential works to live soberly especially such as pretend to Godliness and that Heathens should rise up in judgment against Christians and condemn them for being given to excess in eating drinking daintiness excess in apparel to be as rich and costly in their apparel as other Christians that are much above them yea as Heathens that are much superior to them in many ways and respects and be as fashionable and modish yea as fantastick many Professors as the loose prophane vain men and women of the world as gayish and apish to the great dishonour of God scandal of Religion discredit to the Gospel and the profession of it sadding the hearts of the sober tender Christians hardning of vain persons in their vain fantastick modes and ways the great hinderance of the conversion of soul who are strengthned in their sins by the vain conversation carriages habits of such as pretend to real piety The work of conversion will never go prosperously on or as sometimes for merly till Christians are reduced to their wonted gravity sobriety and moderation in apparel and other carriages For what may and do many loose persons say We say they think Religion is but a fancie a precise humorous singularity nothing of reality for we see that they themselves that are so precise and ready to run after Sermons are as covetous and greedy of the world as ambitious as fashionable and complying to the modes of the times and as proud as any others are if there were a reality in Religion and they themselves beleeve it would they do so and so Therefore use a moderation be sober and temperate in these and also in your desires cares and endeavours after worldly things and in your delight in them Be not covetous and having pinching and sparing farther than is meet and commendable God will provide Heb. 13.5 He hath said Let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Neither let Heathens condemn you for prodigal and lavish spending or laying out for outward good things for the back belly and house nor for pride vain-glory self boasting and self-exalting for delighting and solacing your selves in outward good things for ambitiousness affectation of worldly esteem and to be some-body in the world above others or voluptuousness given to pleasures worldly delights sleep ease or the like But if you will be ambitious or covetous covet earnestly the best things to be rich in the knowledge of the things of God rich in faith rich in grace be ambitious who shall go one before another in humility self-denyal and in all good works Laying up for your selves a good foundation against the time to come that ye may lay hold on eternal life i. e. to have a good argument and evidence in your selves that you are in the number of them that have a true saving faith love to God Jesus Christ and his children and ways to which God of his free Grace hath promised eternal life So the Apostle exhorts 1 Tim. 6.17 18. 19. Study and endeavour to be good and useful in and to all your relations to improve them for their good every way especially for their spiritual and everlasting good and welfare both for the credit and propagation of Religion as well as for your own peace and comfort in the faithful discharge of your duty There are the relations of husbands wives parents children brethren sisters masters servants fellow-servants neighbors acquaintance Christians subjects members of the Common-wealth and Kingdom It is not enough for a married man to be a good man but he must be a good husband and so for a married woman to be a good woman but she must study to be a good wife also So likewise to be a good child a good sister a good father a good brother a good mother a good master a good servant and so in every relation any do stand in to any other that all may be the better for you and you for them and God may be glorified by all on your behalf And therefore labour to insinuate your selves as much as conveniently may be into the favour of every one of Superiours by submission obedience and diligence of equals by courtesie and freedom of inferiours by affability mixt with gravity and gentleness c. The Heathen could say Nemo sibi natus est no man is born for himself but partly also for his friends and partly for his Countries good for a general good He is not a true Christian indeed no nor a right qualified man that doth not desire and endeavour to be good and beneficial to all relations I desire to be not only a good man but also a good Minister of Jesus Christ a good husband a good child a good father a good brother a good master a good servant a good fellow servant a good friend a good kinsman a good neighbour a good acquaintance a good Christian a good subject and a good member of the Church and Kingdom in which I live and am a member through the goodness of God I speak upon supposition if I were in all these relations as I am in many that all relations might be the better for me by being a husband to one a master to others a father to others a brother to others c. Oh! that the good Lord would inable and make me good useful and beneficial in and to every relation Oh! that I could be your pattern in every relation in all well doing Oh! how glad should I be in every relation
CHRISTIAN ADVICE Both to OLD and YOUNG RICH and POOR Which may serve as A DIRECTORY At hand Ready to direct all Persons almost in every State and Condition Under XXVII General useful Heads Rom. 10.1 Brethren my hearts desire to God and prayer for you all is that ye may be saved 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Omne crede diem tibi deluxisse supremum Hor. Si Christum noscis nihil est si caetera nescis Si Christum nescis nihil est si caeteta noscis If Christ you know though nothing else 'T will bring you unto bliss If all things else and know not Christ Of Heaven you shall miss LONDON Printed for Edw. Brewster at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1671. T. Cross sculpsit The Effigies of Mr. Tho Mocket some time of Qu Col Camb Mr of A in both the Universities and Minister of the Gospel Aetatis suae 68. A D 1670. The Effigies of the Reverend Author of this Worke M T M Haveing knowne him many yeares I thought good to add out of respects to him Edw Brewster A few VERSES On Psal 39. v. 5. Amici cujusdam THreescore and ten the age and life of man In holy Davids eyes seem'd but a span Yet half that time is lost and spent in sleep So only thirty five for use we keep Our dayes of youth must be abated all Child hood and youth wise Solomon doth call But vanity meer vanity he saies Is what befalls us in our childish daies Our daies of age we take no pleasure in Our daies of grief we wish had never bin So time deducted youth and age and sorrow Only a span is all the time we borrow Now we do count our time by years monthes dayes Ere long we reckon must another wayes Make it your work here so to live and dye That you may live with God eternally Live every day as if it were your last day To The Right Honourable truly Noble and Religious and now also the aged Lady the Countess of Exceter increase of honour holiness and comfort here and perfection hereafter Madam ALthough you might wonder that such an one as I should presume to present so small and mean a piece to your hands and under your name to the world who have so many rare and excellent Workes of eminent men of your own already yet be pleased to pass by my boldness and to accept my Reasons that moved me so to doe though slender I had sometimes the honour to wait on and preach to the Right honourable Lord John Earle of Bridge-water Baron of Brackly and Elsemere c. your Father and then Lord President of the Marches of Wales under King Charles the first long since deceased and had I may truly say without ostentation respect and favour above my expectation and deserts and promises of preferment I also well knew the Lady Catherine Courten your Sister deceased very worthy to be remembred and honoured who was pleased to accept of a small piece from my hand also your great candor piety and goodness which God of his free grace hath inriched you with for which I cannot but much honour you and if your Ladyship shall be pleased to favour a poor Minister of Christ so far as to let this mean piece come to your hand and pass abroad under your Name though mean and homely I trust it may be of some use to others and possibly to your self seeing the truths of God are the same though in a mean dress and great souls must be nourished with the same sincere milk of the word go to Heaven in the same plain way of truth and holiness Though this be but as Goats hair was to make an outward covering to save the rich Furniture and Curtains of the Tabernacle and make other rich pieces appear with more lustre and beauty this plain homely dish of spiritual food may give you occasion to relish value and desire others the more and to feed more savourly on them And so your Lady ship will oblige me to be most ready MADAM To love honour and serve you in the Lord while I am THO. MOCKET The Contents and principal Heads handled in this Treatise THe Preface Pag. 1 An Exhortation to some to get and exercise these fundamental Graces Pag. 4 1 Sound Knowledg Pag. 5 2 Saving Faith Pag. 25 3 True Repentance Pag. 26 4 Unfained Live to God and Men Pag. 27 5 Sincere Obedience Pag. 29 Six moving considerations to get and grow in those Pag. 36 Exhortations and Advices to all in general Pag. 41 1 To read the Holy Scriptures dally Pag. 42 2 To take and improve the opportunities of hearing Pag. 45 3 To meditate often Pag. 46 4 To be careful to keep holy the Christian Sabbath and Lords-day Pag. 47 5 To pray daily Pag. 48 6 To sing Psalms often Pag. 53 7 In performing duties to be careful to perform them in a right manner and not to rest in the duty Pag. 54 8 To obey Magistrates Pag. 56 9 To have a lawful Calling and use it lawfully Pag. 58 10 To be watchful to observe the seasons and opportunities of doing and receiving good Pag. 64 11 To Charity Pag. 72 12 To them in prosperity Pag. 75 13 To them in adversity Pag. 77 14 To them under temptations to sin Pag. 82 15 To studie unity peace and love Pag. 85 16 To endeavour to be and walk always in the fear of the Lord Pag. 90 17 To study to carry themselves affably courteously and neighbourly to all Pag. 104 18 Use a moderation in all things at all times and to all persons Pag. 106 19 Study and endeavour to be good and useful in all relations Pag. 112 20 To use recreations when nature requires lawfully and wisely Pag. 114 21 To think often and prepare for death Pag. 115 22 To married persons generally particularly to Husbands Wives Page 118 23 To Parents Pag. 130 24 To Children Pag. 139 25 To Masters and Governours of Families Pag. 153 26 To Servants Pag. 160 27 To them that are poor Pag. 173 28 Some Objections answered Pag. 177 29 The Conclusion with some choice Scriptures Pag. 188 To My dear Relations Friends and Acquaintance especially in the Counties of Kent London Middlesex Hertford and Essex T. M. heartily wisheth Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ with a daily encrease thereof DEAR FRIENDS YOu have been loving kind and respective unto me and mine and now being Aged drawing near unto seventy I am very desirous to leave with you a few lines instead of a worldly Legacy which I am sure many of you need not nor desire as a Testimony of my thankfulness unfeigned love due respects and hearty desire of your real good temporal and eternal that they may be present with you and speak unto you when I cannot come at you or am gone from you into the place of silence and therefore I have been desirous to publish these lines the substance
can conceive 1 Cor. 2.9 Psal 31.19 Sixthly Children must learn to be mannerly to know their duty towards all and accordingly to carry themselves mannerly loving and with due respectfulness and courtesie to all sorts of persons even to the meanest and poorest Good breeding and carriage is very commendable and winning Seventhly As you grow up in discretion and years be faithful diligent careful and provident to look unto and do your Parents business the benefit will be all your own hereafter and you will have the peace and comfort of a good conscience in discharging your duty in the mean time and ever Eighthly Imploy some time every day in private alone in reading the Holy Scriptures prayer meditation on what you have heard and read and labour to use and improve all Ordinances of Christ for your spiritual advantage and Souls benefit Ninthly Brothers and sisters must love one another in a special manner and be very willing and ready to do all good offices one for another Love as Brethren saith the Apostle because of the near relation one to another in the flesh for brothers and sisters to live at variance or as strangers one to another is sinful and shameful What! should not they love and live lovingly one with another that were begotten of the same father or born of the same mother lay in the same womb fed at the same brest and table and frequently plaid together If any of you be faulty I can accuse none for shame let it be so no more but labour to be cordially united in love and help one another in all well doing especially in the way to Heaven Lastly When you are grown up and desire to change your condition and dispose of your selves abroad in a calling place and especially in way of Marriage observe I pray these few directions and God will be with you to bless and prosper you 1. Resolve on nothing till you have first acquainted your Parents or Guardians that are in place of Parents and have their consent and advice you have your being and education breeding and bringing up by their care pains and charge and therefore do owe your selves to them and therefore should do nothing without their consent and advice 2. Be earnest with God in prayer for direction and a blessing on your undertaking most especially in the choice of a yoke-fellow God is the great disposer of all things and most wise yea only wise 1 Tim. 1.17 Houses and riches are the inheritance of fathers but a prudent wife is from the Lord Prov. 19.14 Therefore be sure to seek unto God for a meet yoke-fellow as the gift of God 3. Let Godliness in a yoke-fellow be that which above all you desire and endeavour after to find in an helper Never marry with one that is not truly religious and though Religion alone is not sufficient to make a fit match suffer not your selves to be corrupted with the worlds false glosses of beauty wealth or the like neither cross the rules of Nature in too much disparity of age or degree or in robbing Patents of their right marry not with any of evil report for beauty or lucre sake among all the ends of marriage mentioned in the Scripture 't is observed there is none to make one rich or worldly great They that look only or chiefly at beauty parts riches or other worldly advancements many times have that which they desire but little comfort with it often a cress and sometimes a curse with them He that would have Gods blessing on the marriage must invite God to the marriage he that would have not his wine turned into water but his water turned into wine must invite Christ to the wedding he that would have Gods favour and blessing must ask his leave and presence and follow his direction by his word and gratious Providence Be not hasty but wisely deliberate and considerate ere you pass over your selves liberty and all for so long a term as during life much less sell your selves and your liberty and comfort only for worldly estate wit or beauty though never so great and be always a servant for these uncertain and unsatisfying things And it is good to express before engagement what you expect both for piety and all other matters of habitation manner of living order of family and the like This is the way to have marriage a merry age matter of much comfort 25. Masters you to whom God has given the honour of being Masters and Governours of a family and servants 1. Know I pray and remember that most of the before-mentioned duties incumbent on Patents concern you also to practise towards your servants as to instruct them in the grounds of true Religion to pray with them and for them daily read the Scriptures before and to them daily and see that they be present and do attend with reverence both at private duties as prayer reading the Scriptures repetition of what has been heard and the publike Mnistry of the word and that they also do read the Scriptures often examme them what they do remember help them what you can and give them a good example in all things 2. When they do well encourage them restrain them from evil and from evil places and company And when they do ill reprove them but privately shew them their error and the evil of their ways in love that they may see you seek their good as well as your own and the faithful discharge of your duty to God and them 3. Rule them not with rigour harshness or bitterness use them not as slaves but as fellow servants to Christ with love and gentleness forbearing threatnings as much as may be that they may serve you out of love and for conscience sake Rigour bitterness harshness foul language are hateful to God and often do much hurt make many mopish careless some distracted and others desperate but love gentleness and good usage hath often done much good even on difficult natures and your authority must be improved for their edification and not for their destruction 2 Cor. 10.8 And if they reply when reproved soberly hear their defence and reasons as Job did Job 31.13 But be sure you command your servants and children nothing but what is lawful just and equal and agreeable unto nothing that is against the Law of God which must be all our rule for so doing your selves will be guilty of a double fault and suffer most in the end and I would gladly prevent your dashing on this rock and all others 4. Allow them time convenient as for your work so for Gods service publike and private duties of Religion and piety It is not enough to instruct them and blame them for omissions but you must also allow them convenient time it will be no let to your work and business but a whet rather bring a blessing on your affairs as Abrahams servant did Gen. 24.12 27 42 48 52. But lamentable is the carelessness and
that may tend to the glory of God and their Masters good for soul body or outward being in the world not in things sinful for we may not think that God would have any servant to obey his earthly Master contrary to his own will and rule who is the Supreme and absolute Lord over men and Creatures And when I say and use the word Masters I understand as the Apostle doth both Sexes the Mistress and Dame also as well as the man And great is the benefit servants procure to themselves by faithful obedience to their Masters Now for the manner of your obedience I must put you in mind of what the Spirit of God hath set down for your direction and practice 1. With fear and trembling Eph. 6.5 that is with an awful fear of offending or displeasing them in doing what is required for matter or manner for a slavish fear or dread is not here meant or allowed especially in Christian servants who are spiritually free but a careful reverential fear a fear of punishment or just displeasure as aforesaid is to be used Rom. 13.3 4. 2. In singleness of heart Ephes 6.5 Col. 3.22 that is truly sincerely from the heart not hypocritically or in dissimulation but heartily as in the sight of God who seeth and knoweth your hearts 3. Not with eye-service as men pleasers Ephes 6.6 that is not with a meer outward service only to satisfie the eye of man and to please man which is hypocritical or to be diligent nimble and careful while the Masters eye is upon them and when his back is turned and he gone to be idle lazie careless doing nothing at all or little or to halves which is Pharisaical a defrauding deceiving of the Master both which are hateful to God and displeasing to man A servant ought to do his Masters will and command heartily as to the Lord with care diligence and faithfulness when he is absent and far off as well as when he is present and looketh on because God requires it and seeth and will call him to account 4. With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men Ephes 6.7 that is not only in singleness but also readily cheerfully and desiring that it may be for the Masters profit and benefit which argues a good will to their Masters 5. Not answering again Titus 2.9 that is not gainsaying reasoning and arguing cavilling against it yet may a servant and ought in some cases humbly to shew his reason against the doing of this or that or after this or that manner when he verily beleeves it to be sinful and unlawful or tending to his Masters prejudice and disadvantage as Naamans servants did 2 Kin. 5.3 13. 2. Be careful to serve your Masters with all faithfulness Tit. 2.10 1 Cor. 4.2 as it is said of Moses Heb. 3.5 Moses was faithful as a servant that is with faithfulness diligence and care to manage your Masters business as may be most for his benefit as Joseph did This faithfulness must appear in dealing truly with him in all things endeavoring carefully to keep preserve and manage your Masters goods to his advantage look to his cattle children person credit keep his secrets and do all things faithfully that you are intrusted to do not purloining imbezeling wasting or unnecessarily spending your Masters goods for that is dishonesty next door to robbery not suffering through your carelessness or negligence any hurt or damage to come to your Master or to any person or thing he hath for that is unfaithfulness and as you deal with others others no doubt will hereafter deal with you 3. Be careful to give all due reverence and respects hear what the Apostle saith 1 Tim. 6.1 2. Let as many servants as be under the yoke count their own Masters worthy of all honour Observe and understand that many of those Masters the Apostle then spake of were Infidels Heathens Idolaters and otherwise laid on heavy yokes which he expresses by the word yoke and their slavery by being under the yoke and though their servitude was an heavy burden a yoke to serve them which were Idolaters and enemies to the true God and Jesus Christ whom the Christian servants beleeved in loved honoured and served in their spirits and perhaps many of them in other respects very unworthy men yet being and while they were their Masters the Christian servants must count them and accordingly carry themselves towards them as worthy of all honor from them as their Masters and next under God over them And observe his reason which is very good That the Name of God and his Doctrine be not blasphemed v. 1. that is evil spoken of by the Heathen Masters for if they should refuse to serve their Masters or to reverence them though Infidels under pretence of their Christian liberty this would occasion their Infidel Masters to reproach the Christian Religion as if it taught them disobedience pride and undutifulness Much more then should Christian servants cheerfully and gladly serve and honour beleeving Christian-Masters especially such as are truly religious godly and conscientious as ver 2. shews And they which have beleeving Masters c. And this reverence must be inward in the heart otherwise it is hypocritical and must be expressed outwardly in their speech and words to them and of them behind their backs it must be also sparing humble mild the truth and at a fit season by forbearing to speak when the Master seems to be unwilling they should speak any more at that time Also in their behaviour and carriage dutiful submissive obeysance or courtefie to them standing modestly decently and humbly before them uncovered and the like usual reverend respectful carriages All which reverence and humble respects is due also from children to their Parents yea and also from wives in some degree to their own husbands who in many things have a joynt authority power with their husbands Eph. 5.33 therefore the rather is due from servants to their own Masters who are in a far inferiour condition thâ—n wives Wherefore sawciness boldness in speaking without respect as if equals replying again and again stoutness crosness that will not answer when they are spoketo or crosly or flee away in a passion or slap him in the mouth with a lye pride in not giving the title due to the Master because it may be he is poor or mean or not very wise muttering and murmuring are carriages very unworthy to be condemned though from a Christian servant to a Heathen Master much more if to a Christian Master worst of all if to a godly Master 4. Patiently bear reproofs and correction also if you meet with them even when you do well much more if for evil doing it is both a sin and shame to murmur complain or be impatient 1 Pet. 2.18 19. Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward for this is
thanks-worthy if a man for conscience towards God indure grief suffering wrongfully for what glory is it if when ye are buffeted for your faults ye take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God for even hereunto are ye called because also Christ suffered for us leaving us an example that we should follow him who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth See here is Gods command Christs example their own duty comfort and benefit to themselves do all bind servants to a meek and patient bearing of reproof and correction blows also 5. Bear with your Masters infirmities for the best of men have their infirmities are subject to like passions as other men as 't is said of Elias Jam. 5.17 as you your selves also have yours and therefore make conscience of bearing with them in others especially in your Governors concealing and covering them in love as much as may be It is a sinful thing to publish or blaze them abroad to the dis-credit of their Master is indeed to their own discredit shame in the end yet it is too common for servants when they meet together to talk of and blaze their Masters and Governors infirmities and secrets also that others abroad know what is said and done secretly in the house Such the Holy Ghost condemneth as tale-bearers Prov. 11.13 and 20.19 and the Apostle as tatlers and busie-bodies wandring from house to house and speaking things they ought not 1 Tim. 5.13 I say also it redounds to their own discredit and shame for who will credit or like such as tattle abroad what they see or hear at home or knowingly receive or willingly retain such in their houses All sober persons will utterly dislike and condemn such persons for so doing To back all these duties and put all servants on to make conscience of performing these duties consider these weighty Reasons 1. The will and express command of God as you have heard so that in a willing neglecting any of these you sin against God and provoke God against your own souls 2. You wrong your Masters whose good you ought to endeavour heartily and honour their persons and authority 3. The great reward you shall receive if not of men yet to be sure of God who has undertaken to be your pay-master Eph. 6.8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doth the same shall he receive of the Lord whether he be bond or free 4. The place Masters are in namely over you in the Lord as your Head and Governour and you in the place of subjection to them so that whatsoever the birth parentage estate parts or former conditions of any of you were yet now being servants by your own voluntary choice or Divine Providence you must be subject and do the duty of servants and it is much better to do that cheerfully and faithfully which must be done and will be much for your comfort and benefit 5. The faithful discharge of these duties is a good way to adorn the Gospel credit Religion and Godliness honour the Name of God the contrary will be an occasion of blaspheming the Name of God and of the Gospel and the ways of Godliness 1 Tim. 6.1 Titus 2.10 and hindring the good of Souls 6. This is one end of your calling to Grace to serve others faithfully 1 Pet. 2.21 22. whereunto also you are called though the place speaks especially and particularly of suffering patiently for well-doing yet excludes not the other but includes it 7. Fellow-servants must be loving one to another and be a help and comfort one unto another in all well-doing and by all lawful means as much as may be that their lives may be more sweet and comfortable to themselves more pleasing to God and their service more acceptable unto their Master and give one another and others a good example of faithfulness diligence chastity sobriety godliness and all Christian vertues and well-doing 8. I might add there will be a day of Death and Judgment in which both Masters and servants must give an account unto God the Judge of all the world how they have carried themselves in their relations one towards another 2 Cor. 5.10 Eccles 12.14 27. Lastly To those that are poor in the world I must add a few words particularly for their comfort and direction and I pray observe them well 1. If now for your comfort you be truly Godly that is know God and Jesus Christ savingly and if you do truly desire to believe and endeavour to serve God daily and faithfully though but weakly as your education 't is probable hath been but mean then you are rich and great in the sight of God God is your Father and Jesus Christ your Redeemer Justifier and Saviour the Holy Spirit is your Sanctifier and Comforter and Heaven your in heritance all is yours if you be Christs 1 Cor. 3.22 23. Bless God with all your Souls serve him with all your heart you are happy in a far better condition than many thousands though you have little or nothing in the world and they have hundreds or thousands by the year if they be Christless ungodly and graceless and such I am confident some of those to whom I intend this are Fear not you shall never want things necessary any thing that God your Heavenly Father knows to be good and necessary for you Consider Psal 34.9 10. 84.11 Rom. 8.32 He that spared not his own Son how shall he not with him freely give us all things Consider well Mat. 6.25 to the end where you shall read how Christ argues for your comfort and ours also Where God gives life which is the greater better gift says Christ he will give meat and drink which is the lesser and he that gives a body will give raiment which is the lesser good He that will give a hundred or thousand pound to his childe will not be wanting to give him a little meat drink and clothes a few shillings for his present necessaries He that cloth s the field with grass and corn and the Lillies that neither toil nor spin Yea He that feeds the ravens kites and other Birds and Beasts that live on prey God provides for them when they awake in the morning they sing and are merry and yet they do not know where they shall have one small bit and they praise their Maker in their kind depend on him without distracting or carking distrustful cares and he provides for them every one food convenient in the due season Read Psal 104.27.28 and 147.15 16. How much more will he provide for you who truly desire and endeavor to serve and fear him Be not faithless but beleeve But 2. If you have not true saving knowledge and sanctified Grace an interest in Jesus Christ if ignorant or unholy and unrighteous then I beseech you whatsoever you do neglect yet neglect not any longer to give diligent endeavour