rv- VG/ "Pt/ lb {l 37. He is not his own, he is bought with a price, and therefore fhouM glorify God in bi.e body and fpirit, which are God's, t Cor. 6.20. Whether he eat or drink, or what - ever he do, he fhould do all to the glory of God, I Çor. io. 31, Which three general precepts thew that we are not to level our a&ions as merely natural men do, but as it becomes Chriffians, to level them at his glory, as the great end and (cope of them ; that to Ili to live may be Chrifi, that we may live to him, and glorify him who bath bought us, and that from a principle of love to Lim who hash loved us : Now Confcience cometh not in formally to deal on the firff account, that is, as the t&ion is good in itfelf, or on the matter ; there rea- fon and judgment come in rather, and tell when a man doth that which is good or evil on the matter : But Confcience comes in on the fecond account, and telleth him when his a &ion is done chriffianly, to wit, in due manner, from a right principle, and to a right end. To make this out, it will be needful that we shortly fpeatc a word to thefe two ; i. We (hall thew what maketh an a &ion truly Chriffian and religious. z. We mall show that in all theft things, that make an a&-ion fuch, Confci- erice bath fomething to fay to men, whether it be fo with them. As for the fill, I fpeak not of the manner of the aEi- on, or what maketh it good in that refpe &, as that it be warrantable, and in nothing finful ; as to the matter, inch as are eating, drinking, hearing, reading, praying, &c. Befide this, there are these four which snuff be .present, and carefully carried along in every a &ion by the man that would a& chriftianly, and glorify God therein : The want of which, or of any of these, will make Confcience to have fomthing to fay againff him, as ground of challenge ; as the having of them will make Con- f d ente to fay for him, and approve him : The ifi of the fe is That a man's a &ion be levelled at an higher end. than himfelf ; and that is God's honour, and the edi- Lc4tion of others : for inffance, men, even in their eating and drinking, are not to satisfy themfelves, or to gratify their appetite-only ; but they are to make their eat - irg and drinking a mean to pronaove the honour of Gód,
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