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On
the
Nature
of
God.
godlinefs more
than
others, know,
that
you have
the Name
of God
upon
you
,
and this
Name of
Gad it
is
excellent
and glorious,
let it
not
fuller
by you
:
Oh
woe
tó
you
that
ever
you
N.
ere
born,
if
you
fhould bee infiruments of pol-
luting the Name
of God. Mee
thinks any
one
that
makes
profetlion
of
Gods Name
, fhould think
with
himfelf,
it
were
better that
I
were dead and
rotten
under
the clods,
than that
ever
I
fhould live
to pollute
this
bleffed
Name
of
God that
is fo
excellent
:
What
?
was
I
born that
I
might live
to
have my hand in
fo
great
a
mifchief
as
that
this glorious
Name of God fhould
bee
darkned
by
mee
?
Oh,the Lord forbid
:
Know what
the Name
of
God is
that
you
profefs, and
meditate
how
excellent it
is
,
and
let
this
bee
a
fltong
argument to
keep
you
from
fin
:
When
any
temptation comes,
oh
fet this
agarnft
it,
Shall
I
pollute
this
Name
of God
that
is
fo
infinitely excellent
?
No man
or
woman can
dye with
peace , and
have
peace upon
their
lick-beds,
except
they can
bee
able to
look
back
into
their
lives,
and
to
fay,
Lord,
though
there bath been
much weak-
nefs
in
mee , and in manythings
I
have dishonoured
thee,
yet
it bath been
my
care in
my
generation, and in theplace
that
thou hall
fet
mee=, to
lift
up thy
Name,
and
I
havé
done
fome
thing through
thy grace
to
lift
up
thy Name.
Oh
that
I
could leave this
point upon
j
our
hearts ,
that
every one
of
you
might
go
home
and make but this
one
Ufe
of it
;
I
have heard
'T.
hat
the
Name
of
God
is
excellent
alone,
and his glory
is
above
all
:
This likewife
I
have heard
to
bee
my
duty
, that
this
was
the great
work
that
I
was
bort
for,
that I
fhould do
force
thing
to
make Gods Name
great before all
thofe with whom
I
do
converfe;.
think
every
one
of
this
,
how
long
haft
thou
lived
?
Many
of
you
will
bee
ready
today, I
have
lived
thus long in
fuch
a
place,
and
it
may
bee
that
you
can
fay
that
you have
clone no
man wrong , but
good';
But what
canft
thou
fay
to
this
Queftion
?
.I
appeal
to
thy confcience
,
Hath
the
Name
of
God
been made great
by thee
?
Hatt
thou done any
thing
to
lift
up
this glorious
Name of
God
in
the
place
wherein
God