Sethi. 2 3. Ho*, ?mill we make Religion our try fine f s ? man who makes Religion his bufin ff. vfe 3. Let me periwade all you whole conf.ierces may finite you vie 3. for former neglects, now fet upon the work, make Religion your ExbortRtaon bufinefs; contend tauguam pro c ris & fou, beflir }our felves in this as in a matter of life and death. e.. But how mull we do to melt. make Religion our bufinefs ? Anfw. chat you may be ferious in tl:is Anfw, work , I thall lay down feverall Rules for your help and dirct4ion Rules lii herein. egon a our bufinefs I. If you would make Religion your bufnefs , poffefs your e. Ride. (elves with this maxime, That Religion is the end of your Creation. God never Pent men into the world only to eat and drink , and put . on fine cloathes ; but the end of their creation is to honour him, I Pet. 4. II. That God in all things may be glorified . Sh: u'.d the body onely be tended and looked alter, this were to trim the ¡cahbard in- inflead of the blade; it were to invert aid fruf} rate the very end of our being. z. If you would make Religion your bufinefs, get a change of 2. Rule. heart wrought; breathe after a principle of holinefs : he cannot make Religion his bufinefs,who bath no Religion. Can the body move dpi' rì it Jib without a principle of life ? Chriftian get thy heart fpiritualized by67rGr. grace; an earthly heart will no more trade in Heaven , t1:an a mill - iione will afcend, or a Serpent fly in the air: the heart mull be divine- ly touched with the Spirit, as the needle with the load (lone,ere it can cleave to God, and follow him fully ; never cxpet`f the pradife to be Nuitb.14.24. holy, till firftthere be an holy principle. 3. If you would make Religion your bufinefs, let your felves always 3. Rule. under the eye of God. The Mafîers eye makes the fervant work ; Cods eye will quicken our devotion. Pfal. 16.8. I have fet the Lord always Inrereffanrmú before me. If we leave off work, or loyter in our work, God tees , he, "off)ti, & cog:- hath a cafement opens into our breaths this ó,P °txA,v_ós úßuí riC ratienrb u me- b ' dirt inrerVeerr (as Chryfofome calls it,) this eye of God that never flops, would Seneca. make us at`tive in the fphxre of duty : if indeed Gods eye were at any pfaLst9.9 time off us , we might Hacker our pace in Religion , but he is ever looking on ; if we take the wings of the morning we cannot fly from 1 is pretence ; and he who is now the fpeftavour, will be the judge ; O how would this confideration of Gods omniciency , keep us from be- ing truants in Religion, how would it infufe a fpirit of a6livity and gallantry into us, making us put forward with all our might in the race to Heaven 1 4. If you !quid mkt Religion your bufinefs, think often of 4. Ruk. the 537
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