04° Mt. Beomaes r4i"elVel .Sermjni Aug. r7: k .evcnthly , If you cannot do the oral youwohld. , then do the good you can ; many people are fo Pullen , that becaute they cannot -do all they would do , they will do none at all. 1 befeech you,. he of this temper ; what though you cannot ferve God in pu will you not there ore lerve him in private ? why may you nor do as - Sr. Ar4Ftiiie was bid to do, (tole legit) take up and read.? this will be a reading and praying time with you; and now you cannon hear as formerly you have done, oh pray more, and read more, and the leis you have in 'publick the more you may .have in private, you may read., and pray; we are not iorbidden chat yet, le,. us then makeufe, of them. Eightly, , My intreaty is unro you all , that you would be careful and carcumfpea in your converfa(ion , Ephef. S. at r 6. ).-See. then that ye wa/k_circtons'fielly,p.lot as fool bar a. wife, redeem ng the time, becaufe the dayes areez+ral. Walk,as becometh the profei-Iors of- the Golpel, and lobo r to he blainelefs towards God and m in. Oh, what notice will there be takm ;when any profeffor Both bar flip a:- fide, and do any thing amifs , it is the joy of wicked mens hearrs-to fee it , and hoer diligently do they watch for it , and then it :? We hwe a P;ovierb, That one man may betterjteal a 'Florfe, than am- ibfrbokon ; -I am Cure a wicked man may better commit 'feven fins-, than a profeffor one ; for it is the failings , the bid :lives of fors, that makes Religion ill fpokenof,,and hinders many a weak foul from doling with it : fare think they , their Religion cannot be. good , their converfations are fo bad ; let us therefore be wary, and careful in all our anions. - Ninthly , Mourn and lament for the finyou cannot hifder ; it was Paid of Lot, ( a Pet. 2. 8. ) that his righteous foil was.vexed with the wicked Converfations of the Sodomites. Oh that we-were -but fo gool as we alould be, then fure it would grieve us more than it cloth, to fee the wicked and abominable lives of thole among whom we live ; though thou doll not blafpherne God thy felt, yet it is thy God that is blafpemed , and flaall not that trouble thee? how can(' thou' but reprove them whoever they be ? When a tick man feerh.his Wife, Children, Friends, and Phylician, lamenting his condition , lure it make him think his condition is worfe than he thought it, or very had at leaf}, or elfe why:dothey take onfo, if thee was no cattle of fear ? Thus it may be thy reproof may work upon a wicked man ; ifwhen thou hearer} him blafpeme God , thou lamented his co adition , and puts him in mindof his fad elate, is may make him lay that toheal then-which he never did before. . Tenthly, The tall thing that I have tobefeech of you is, lhat you would
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