Head n.. Fr·uitfulnefl: a> Galil~-an, his fpeech wiH berwray him; h~'ll_ rio~ ; ee~- tbe language of Ajhdod, but the l.aogu9-ge_of 6afi,aq, , ~ : e w1ll neither be dumb in religion r.or will his tongu~ Walk at r-andom, feeing tp the double guard naoore hat-h giv'en the tongue, grace bath added a thir.d. The fruits of hol i nef.~· will be found in his outward converjation. for he bar.IJ clean hand:J, as well as a )pure heart, .Pfal xxiv. 4· He i; a godly man,- and reJigiouf!y difcharges the duties of the th(t table of the law: he is a r ;[[hterJfu man,, ar,d honel1ly~ pertqrm~ the duties of the' jecemd table. In his conv~ rfati o n he is a good C.hrifl~an and a good neig.hbour tOO•· He car_. r~es it towards God, as ... jf men 's·· eyes were upon hinz,.. and towards men, as believing God·'s eye ' to be . upon him. Th.efe things which God /Jath joined, in his 'la-w, he dare not, in his prac!:ice, put afunder. : Thus the branches in Chrill arefull[J_{good/ruitJ. And thofe fruits a·re a clulter · of vital aCtions; . whereof JeluJ"– Chrill is the principl·e and end : the principle; ·for he lives in th e'm, and the life they,/ive. ir by thefaith·oft-he Son of God, Gal. i. 20. The end; for they.livetGhim; andtotheri'Z to /ive-·iJ Chriji, Phil. i, 2 1. The·· dmies ·of religion are_in the world, like farherlefs ch~ldreo, in rags -: feme will no'r- ~ take them in, becaufe they never lo_ved them, nor .their Fa• th t r: fame· take them in, .becaufe they .may D-e ferYJi·cable to them; but the faitn ,s tak-e them in for, their · Father's fake; that is, .for Cbri-A-'s t<J ke; and they are lovely-in the~r eyes, becaufe they a-re lik-e him .. 0 ·!. when·ce is· this new life of the faints ! furely-it could never have been harn,_mered .ou~ of the .natural powers of their fou ls; ·by the united lorce "Of all created power. Jo eternal ·barr.eonefs flwuld,their womb have been fhut <up; but that bcing married fa Chrifl, they /J.ring forth (ruit..z~>nto .God'l Rom.• vii , 4· · , · .~ . tf you .aflf me, Howyour nourijhment,grorwth~ andfruit~ ftdmjr tnay -b.e forwarded? I ·offer the(e:few advices ( 1.) M ~ke lure work, as ·tO your knitting with the ·t1ock by faith< - unfeigned- ; and bt:ware of hypoctify: a ·breinch that is not , found at · the heart, will certainly wither, The trees of the Lord'.s p,lanting. are lteeJ- of righ.teoufnejf, Jfa. lxi 3• fo when others fade, they bring for.th · f ruit. Hypocrify,. , , is , ,• difeafe. in the ·vitals of rel1gion, ~hic.b will confume all· atdeng!_h•. lt is-a leak...in.the .fuip, ~ that will certainly finlt; ~·; ' ' . it~/-
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