to drvplie SAINT S. 197 Peter. So it ìs not enoughto be a member in Gods Church, a Stone in Gods building, except wee be lively Stones, To alfo as lively Stones Jajes hr, t Pet.a. g. The like J may fay of all the dunes of 1.teligion, it is not enough to doc them, but we muff doe them with life, as to Pray, to pray with a dead heart is nothing ; no layes David, Lord quicken us and we will call upon thy name, P1al.8c.18. In a word not to heape par- ticulars ;we cannot walk in any ofGod wayes aright as long as we walke in them with a dead heart, as the PÍalmft layes ; Lordquicltan boo me billy way, Plal.t 19.37. It isapoore thing to walk in Gods wayes onely for the matter of them ; That indeed a dead heart may doe, there's no duty that God bids a man doe, unleffe it be them that configniñe life, but fief i and blond may doe it, for the matter of it, iftherebe mat- ter and forme in it True. fhme duties are limple that flefli and blood cannot doe, as to love God, to delight in God for ones portion and Lot, and Inheritance. and to be all in all to him, thelé are limpie alts, they are not compounded of matter and forme. But when a duty is conapotmded of matter and forme, flefli and blood may doe the matter of it whatfoever it.be; now then as the eí%ntiall forme is the life of the mat- ter, to the matter without it is a dead matter ; and the do- nab of it dead. Well then, now we fee what is meant by dead; the next is, what is the meaning of Them? Thou art dead the word bath a double relation the one to the Minifter of the Church in Sardir ; thou art dead, thyMiniftry is de: d ; the other to the Church in Sardis, it felfe thou art dead, thou art ti dead people. Firft, it bath relation to the Miniftry, thou art dead, thy M inifiry is dead, there's no life in it at all; hence the Doót- rine is this,, That a dead Mini ftry is as good as no A1'sniftry at all, for this our Saviour meanes, in regard of the Angell of the Church in : Sardi;, gal: thy Miniftry is little better then no Miniftry ; it is ft irk dead well neare, it is not lively at all, there, is little or no wármth to be hadbyit. Like the Miniftry Cc3 of Doit.
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