I, [4] \ fengers·, do not feldom take.their farewell of People togethe r ; yet their e~rndl: deft re is, that though they muft ~. way, yet the Lord would Hay; Dot!:. f. Faithful Minifters would- be Meffenger's of Peace, going,. as w~ll -as cotriming. · As the .t~poflle§ firfl: words were to be, Peace be unto you, ·Jv1atth. 10. fo fome ofthis Apofl:les laft Words were, The ,God ofPeace fhall he withyou• . Dof1. 6. When 'ever Miriifiers part with their People, 1f they can but leave Godl.ineffe in them; they ihqll certainly leave God with them. Or, !qofe thac obey the GofpeJ, whatfoever, or · whomfoeve'r theywant,tball ever be in ·a peaceful,and bldfed cot1dition. ' · ' Thefe th'ings do, that is,. live in the practice and · power of that Doctrine ofGodiine[s,which you·have. received, anel heJtd ; and then~ fe.tr not,. the God of Peace !haiJ be with you. · This Dochine, I i11all fwfy prove -to-you; afcer I have ·premifed, . That the Dothine which I have preached to you, is the D·oElrine of God!inefs; the fumme whereof take in there four panidllars : , I. That Jefus Chri{t, who came into the W0rld to rave fi.nners,came al[o to fanchfie and purge them· from their fins. ' . · 2. That thofe that. be.lieve in}:fus, mull be careful to maindin good Works,_ or t.o live a Godly . L,ife. · That thi~ Godlinefs is n0t (uc.h a t1ight and ea fie, and emrty thi·ng> as rhe miHaken World ima– gine; but fhnds in an exaCt ·Conformity of the whcle Man, Heart, and Life, to- the whole Will of God.. . . <' ·' /
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