By the Crop' cf Chrift. 93 Chritt. himfelf, if he fhould come and ask it of you. For you read in his word,that it is he that aske;h it, and commandeth it from you now. But if you will not believe that it is Chri(t that requireth ir, till hecome himfelfin perfon to demand ir, and if you are fuch faithfull Stwards, that you will part with none of your Makers flock, till he ask you for it face to face,for fear of mif-imploying it ; be patient awhile , and he will come and feek his own with advantage, but to the eternal woe of unpro- fitable fervants. You can (pare God the tithe of your words, in formal ducies,when the devil and the world have had the rat ; but not fo much as the old regal proportion ofyour effete's, much lefs the Evangelical e,411. What makes you drop prayers fo much thicker then Alms or Ditlriburions? Do you think that God cloth not as flriéily require the one as theother ? If fpeaking were not cheaper to you thengiving, your prayers and religi, ous talk wouldbe fo feldom and fo fhort, as that it would be as your dittributions are, next tonone. If words colt money, your tongues mould be as flrait as your purfes are, and the world fhould fcarce hear whether you were of anyReligion or none. Do thefe men glory only in the Crofs of Chrif},and is the world by it crucified to them, and they to the world ? We have their anfwer in their actions, what needwe any more. They are dead inand by the world, but not to the world. They are its llaves, though they are called the fervantsof Chrift. N'3
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