CbrifisFutile, receivedby all saints. 1 2 5 lents are tobe improved; and the greater the Talent, the more improvement is to be made; and improvement is to be made of the fame kind. 'Tis our wifedom to obterve whaCwork God is a doing upon our fouls, and to help forward that work. If God be workingFaith in our hearts, it is our duty to help forward the work of Ecleeving. If God be working Patience in our hearts,'tis our duty to help forward thework of Patience. Look now,what work t hat is, that God is doing in our hearts, and lives for us ; that work we are bound to help forward : Nowhath(therfore) God drawn the Imageof jefus Chrift upon your hearts, fo that there is an habitual likenefs in your fouls unto jefus Chrift ? Then it is your duty to labor for an aecual like- nefs tobe likeunto Him in all your workings; to live as He lived and to do as He did ; and to (peak as He fpake : labor more and morexo be like unto Him in your lives. And ifyou fay, How fhould that be? The Apoftle tells you : Whom bebolding,atin a glaY, we are changed from glory to 2 Cor, glory , according to His own Image : The ferious, frequent. IS. beholding of lefusChdft, is the only way to be like unto Him. Beloved ! your lives, theyaredivided into two parts There is a Doing part : and a Sufferingpart: As Chrifts O- bedience was divided into Aliive, and Paffive Obedience. Would you in the Doing part of your life be like unto Chrift? Behold Him in His Doing : Omnir Chrifii eff infiruElio. Every A&ion ofChrift may be our inftruai- on : Nothing in Chrift not imitable fotne thingsmoree- fpecially. For Example : Our Lord and Savior Chrift, He madeit His great bufinefs and deign, To bear witnefs to the Truth : For this Caufe came I into the world, That I y'eh 18. might bear witnefs' unto the Truth. Again, He would ftoop toany work, though it lay much below Him wafts His Difciples feet : lay His Excellencies, at the feet of their Infirmities. Again, WhenHe went upon any work, Hewas much in Prayer firft. 7udas knewHis Praying place. And when He wasat Gods work, He wouldnot know S 2 His 37.
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