391 Ati. Lys s Sammy Rebearfal i. Saints'carry your felves as becomes f, ca in cnidfl of fuch a world , with that wit-done faichfulnefs carefulners , humility, t hat may bring honour, ho h to your felves, and to your ptofeilion Walk as L,ghti in the midt.I of a crooked and perverfe generation : walk clofely, vvuily, innocently, patiently, fubrrullively, &C. All thefe are neceffary while you are to converfe here in the wicked world. T. From that truth, But that thou fhoulda keep them from the evil; obferve prefervation from fin is a greater mercy than exemption from fuffering. Which T. Informs us of a truth that carnal men will never believe till they come to Hell-, -that that is the height of folly , which the men of the world count to be the topof wifdome they think it wifctorne to chuft fin rather than rufferin, 0 2. This w'll evidence that the people of God are not fuch fools as the men of the world think they are , but the wifeft that will chufe the great. itTe-ivg rather than the lead fan. 3. This reproves thofe that will take more care to have their aftlicaions removed than fina,fied. 4. Be more afraid of tinning , and lets afraid of fuffering a what a- fraid of a laN, .my Child ? no be more afraid of a dif-inherirance look on fufferings with Sc,ipturcipettacleJ o Labour for integrity and as?rightnep of heart, that preferves when falling: Be matchfss/ over thy thoughts andwages : be a relayed Chetifian , if thou be nor, thou wilt turn an Apofiatiz,;ng Chriltian. You mull fet your faces a: chortles, refolutton is abfolutely n.ceffary, not onlyunder, but be- fo-e a day t f fuffering. Be refolved for God, and be refolved again( fin, and that for fear, lefl in a day of fuffering thou fhould'il halt and founder , and fo lore the rhinos which thou hail wrought fihio brings me to The TenthSermon. 2 John S. Lookto your f hies, that we lofe not thofe things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full keward. TN thefe words yo,i have a Warning-Piece difcharged to an Elxii Lady. A furious Irem to an Ele& Lady , and her Religious Fa- mily , To lookw 11 to themfelves , that they lofe not the'thingt they hal wrought. And this is g-ounded on a double Reafon. . F-om the Damage of fuch as begin well , and hold not out, They lore the thing,- they have wrought. That were fad, that fo much ihould be done, and all fhould be loft at 2. From the Advantage and benefit if we do go on, then we Pall receive afull reward. The Obfrvatron was it much eoncern; all tinfe tea: have kw; well a chap are looked ton , and thofc
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