462 HAT LIGHT MUST than with all our heart, and mind, and might ; 2 Tim. i. 7. Rom. xü. 11. Thus much for the general description of them. II. The description of a Christian whose works glorify God, according to Scripture and experience, may be given you in the following particulars I. He is one that placeth his saving religion in the practical knowledge of the only true God, and Jesus Christ the Savior, whom he hath sent: John xvii. 3. He puts no limits to his en- deavors after useful knowledge, but what God bath put by his word or providence : he would abound in holy wisdom, and thinks it worth his greatest diligence, and is still upon the increasing" hand : he hath so much knowledge of the lesser matters of reli- gion, as to keep him from scandalous miscarriages about them ; 'but it is the knowledge of God, and of a crucified and glorified Christ, in which he takethwisdom to consist ; John xvii. 3. 1 Cor. ii. 2. This is the light in which he hath his daily conversation, the light which governeth his will and practice, which_ feedeth his medita- tions, his prayers, and his discourse; which repelleth his tempta- tions, which maintaineth his hope, and is his daily workof recrea- tion, his food, and feast. , For they will now perceive, 1. That his religion is not a mat- ter of names and words, and .trifling controversies, but bath the greatest andmost expellent subject in the world; and as nature teacheth all to reverence God, so it will tell them that they must reverence that religion, that conversation, and that person, who is most divine, and where themost of God appeareth. 2. And they will see that his religion consisteth not in uncer- tainties, which no man can be sure of when hehathdone his best ; but in things so sure as none should doubt of; which will easily bring menover to consent, and shame or silence contradicters. 3. And then they will see 'that it is a religion which all sober per- sons are united in, and doth not lose its authority or reverence, by the divisions, wranglings, and digladiations of sects of different minds ; for God is denied by no sober man, nor the essentials of Christianity by any true Christian. 4. And men will see that our religion is no matter of indifferen- cy, which one may do well enough without, but of absolute ne- cessity to salvation, and that which man was made and redeemed for; and a religion of the greatest subject, the greatest certainty, the greatest consent, and the greatest necessity, will honor itself and its Author in the world, if it be rightly represented in the lives of them that do profess it. But when men's overdoing shall pretend that all this is too lit- tle, and shall seek to raise it, as to more perfection, by their own inventions, or uncertain opinions in doctrine, worship, church -dis-
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