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4os The Godly are Warned andfandtified. Sn ce. VIII. how that though onepart be more noblethan another ; yet even the moft ignoble bath its proper ufe,the body knoweth not how tobe without it :The eye cannot fay to the foot, Ihave no need ofthee; yea,the Apoftle exhorts all,?hat they Jbanldefeem ofeveryman better thanhimfe fRom. az,EventhemeaneltChriftiandoth in fome thing or other exceeda ftronger. Vfe. Vfè. Be exhorted to thisgreat duty and priviledge of San&ification. If there be anyhonour, any happinefs. any excellency, it is in this : Thoa artnot fit forany holy duty , forany religious approach unto God, without Sanfttfication, Thy Chriftianity, and the doftrine of Chrtft obligeth thee untoit. This is theproper and peculiar benefit that is in ariasChurch. There is no holineffe among Heathens, no Sanftification without the C hurch of God : well, though now thouarc a prophane defpifer, and it may be an oppofer of holintffe, yet oneday it will be in rtqutft, whenRiches, Honour,Greatneife will do thee no good. Confider, this is the will ofGod, your Sanftification,: Thef, 4. 3. All the commands inScripture drive to this, they tend to this; If thou art not holy, thouhaft no right to happineffe, to have an inheritance among them that are fanftified. Aí/s 26. 18. Holinefle is pro- nailed under the Gòfpel to be in a large mealure. Zech, 14. zo, zt. Every Veflel (hall haveHolineffe unto the Lord : An excellent Promife to be improved by us. t***IX*tIttlAtlAtitt,**4444 SECT. 41TVIANNVINVMPTTUTVP150

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