4 Wherein to Phew onr felves fruitful/. 2 t gold out of the fire ; be able to fay out of experience, to Sa tantempting, to the world hating, traducing, perfecuting, as Jofepb laid to his Brethren, Ye thought evil againft me, but God meant it unto good, as it is this day. Be fruitful/ in your callings : Minifrers in teaching, Ma- giftrates in governing, every man in his particular calling : As every men ber in the body, the head, eyes, hands, feet, are all profitable in their places ; fo fhould each of us be fruitfull in the Ration wherein the Lord hath let us. Every wheele in the clock hath his motion, doth his part ; every ¡lurch.' the firmament fendeth forth his influence, giveth his light : fo mutt every perfon in that political/ or eccle fiafticall Orb, where God hath fet him, abide and be fruit - fall. 6 Be fruitfull-in all your A &ions : In your hearing, as fields receiving good feed : in your prayers, draw tome water out-of Gods Well ; let not thy prayer returne empty, but like'Noabr Love with an Olive branch of forne côrnfort; in your meetings, Confider one another, provoke one another to goo works ; in your fpeeches, 'let your tongue be as cboyce frlver, and fruitful/ pafture, for the purity, fïncerity, protitablenefle and enrichment of others, feeding, filling the hungry, re- joycing the forrowfull, flrengthning the weak, by your gra- cious communication as by a fpirituall banquet ; in your Families, let every man and wife like Zachary and Elizabeth, walkin all the Ordinances of Gc(, and be blamelere; every Mafter, like Abraham, command his people to keep the way of the Lord; eve- ry fervant, like Jofeph in Potiphars houle, fo religions toward God, fo obfervant of his Mailer, fo faithful/ in his Calling, that all his undertakings may be profperous ; every forme and daughter fo attentive to the Parents inftru &ió, ib full of grace and godlineffe, that they may make glad the hearts öf their Parents, be an ornament to their Faniilies,as the flow- ers to the Garden ; every fubje& fo loyal/, faithful/ and ob- fequious to his Soveraigne, that he prove both an honour and ftrength to the Kingdome ; every houfhold, like Phile- mops houle, a Church of God,' in regard of holy inftru &ions t ?._ere delivered; religious duties there oblerved, in regard of the R. lively Gen. so.zo. 5° t Cora7. z4. 6. HLb.to.z4. Pro.t.n©;ac; i Luke t.6. Gen18 19. I'hilcm.ver.z.
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