('8,) -3. Vifible Expreffive God!inefs dotb e[fentia!ly c~nfift i11 the PraCtice ef our fore-defcri6ed Cove_nant and Pro- , .fdlion: That our faces be truly He~ven-waris, and that our walk be in the Jvay of God, through we Jometimes flip and .ftumble and if wt Jltp afide, that we turn ~tot b.1ck again, but return·by Repentance in our wt~y : ·that the drift and aime, and bent of ottr li -ves, be for God .ti!Jd Ottr fat.. 'Vtttion: andthat there be.in us nofin, which truly and habi- ' tually we h~td not rather leave then keep: At~d" tbAt Otlr grettt bu{inefs i1~ the worldbe the pt"'fing of God, ~tnd the faving of our fonts ,: 4nd thAt neither fJono11rs, nor Profits ,nor Plea- . fures of the jlefb)have the preheminence,and be preferred:that chrip be notp~tt under the Great ones of the world, nor put after your commodity, nor put off with the leavings of the . flefo, but th~tt all be made to (loop to him, and take his Jeavings: A0 this is of necefity t~ folvation, and e(fentiat to expreffive Godlinefs. · · . By thu time Reader thou mftyfl eafily fee, 1. that God~ , ·linefs u not an uneffe&.t1al opinion,or dead belief; IfthoN were the moft Orthodox profdfour, or Preacher in the world, thou art ungodly if thou have ne more. .All have not Faith that fay the Creed s The notional apprehenfion, , and the praelical jttt{~ement~ ar.e often contr4rJ; The opi-. nion that iJ infufficient to change che Hea rt~ to move the will, to renew the life, {baD prove infe~fftcient to fave the Soul • . 2. Totl mAy 'fee that Godlinefs unot the adhearing to aParty, though Juch aParty 114 pretendeth to (ome fPec.ial excellency, or calls it felf theonly Church, or the pt1reft Church. It iJ a fin to make and cherilh parties, clivi-A fions, and ,fa ctions in the Univerfal Church, and it is · ~ot .Godlinefs to fin. A Godly man through weaknefs may be of a finful party, hut that u contrt~ry to his Godli– nefs. He wilt worjbip God with hiS befl, and be, where he may
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