Glorifyingof God f preameendoflife. to live to filch low, by and bale ends as thefe but they ¡ ad3 who have thrill living in them, doe live unto God , inten- ding God, making God and his pray f , the fupreame end of their living ; as a wife liveth to her husband , bringing forth children to her husband ; a vine liveth to the Mailer of the vineyard, bringing forth his fruite to him; and a flocke liveth to him that is the Mailer of the flocke, yeelding all their encreafe to him that ownes them : thus thefe men live to God, bringing forth all their fruit and encreafe to God : Whether We live (faith the Apctile) we live g unto the Lord, er Whether wee g Rom.i4.8. die We die unto the Lord, Whither We live therefore or die we are the Lords : They lise unto the Lord, I. Acknowledging Living toGod. themf:Ives not to be their owne, or under their owne pow- what? er, but to be thrills as his proper and peculiar people. 2. By receiving all their direction from thrift, and not wal- king after their owne imagination, taking thrifts word, as the IJraelires did the fiery pillar, and the wife men the flare,.. tocondu& them in all theirgoings. 3. B y J rrendring them- felves up to thrift, to doe his and not their owne will ; as fervants to doe the will of the Mailer with whom they are entred into covenant. 4. By making thrift their re- fuge flying to him in their diftreffes, as fervants to their Mailers. g. By minding thrift, and intending his glory in all that they doe , even to the very end of their life, preferring thrifts honour above their owne wel- fare, being willing to abate themfelves, that they may exalt thrift : and as they live to Chrift, fo they dye to thrift, acknowledging him to have the power of death in his hand, fubmitting with patience to the de- cree of Chrift , touching both time and manner of their diffolution, being willing to glorifie Chrift by their death, reigning themfelves wholy into tha hands of Chrift,when the honre of death comes upon them. It is the earn& de fire and unfained indeavour of all gracious perlons , both in life and death, to make the name of thrift glorious ; looking beyond themfelves to God and Chrift Jefus in all their doings and fufferings. As they are endowed with noble ' /r
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