Spiritual Perfeclion. member them of their negleaed Duties to God ; and above all things they are afraid to dye, becaufe then, the Spirit returns to God that gave it. Now if the Paternal Relation of God be the ground of his moll: dear and be- neficent Affeaion to us, shall it not be the motive of our dutiful Affe&ion to him ? If I be 4 Father, where is my ho- nour? We are commanded to follow God as dear Children : The obligation is clear- ly Natural , from our Heavenly Origi- nal and End. We are excited byour Re- lation ; As obedient Children, not fafbion- ing our (elves according to the former Lu/ts in your ignorance ; but as he who has called us is holy, fo be ye holy in all manner of Converfation. And we are exhorted to be blamelefi' andharmlef, the Sons of God without rebuke, in the ;radii of a croaked and perverfe generation, fhining as Lights in the World. If we are cold and care- lefs in our Duty, how juf}ly may we be upbraided with that Q eftion of Confu- ifon, Do you thus requite the Lord , O foolifh People and unirife ? Is he not thy Father, that bought thee, and made thee ? Is any thing more contrary to natural Confcience and fupernatural Grace, than for thole who are in title and relation the Children of God, to renounce that :Relation by a courfe of Life directly op- polite s99
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