of CONFORMITY. the houfè. Letyour lightfo thine before Men, that they mayfeeyourgoodworks, andglorifie your Father which is in Heaven. Thefe are all the Verfes that can poffibly have the leafs relation to the matter in hand : And that any one could have thought that thefe have the leafi relation to it, I could never have imagined, unlefs you had here exprefly iáid fo. For what is here, like any abfolute Obligation upon thofe, who once had Authority given them to Minifler in Publick, always todo fo ? What is here intimated,hkea durationofthe Mini- flerial Office, and thepublick Exercife ofit where there is once a Conveyance ? Or, what is there, either exprefied, or implied, but an Obligation upon all Chriflians to be excellent in good works, to be confpicuous amongfi the refs of the World, h their difference from them in Doc`lrine andLife ; as Mr. Baxter explains the words, by their Holinefs to God, Sobriety to themf elves, and 1ufiice andworks ofLove to others : which, he faith, are the good works meant here ? Indeed, if it could be proved, that your Publick Miniflrations are necelfary, and for the Glory of God ; that his Honour, and the Credit and interefi of the Chrifii- an - Caufe could not be preferved without D 2 them ; 5i
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