• Of: the·]Vli'uiflerial FtmclioJ~ 3Si anee, and affifl: them, by helping .to infl: rua thofc children· and fer,vant s who are under your. feveral charg.es. A2ply. yourfelves . frequently to then1 for advice a1~d direct:ion, · and be. often . ptitting. 11p that important quefiion, What j!Jall we do to befoved? Yield then1 .that fubmiffion and obediecce which is due unto them in the Lord. Go not, to · church to fit as jupg·es, and cenfure the fermon w-hen you return. If you be not. pleafed w-ith it, your ignoran~e or ii1difpo– fition maJ, be tHe caufe, '\ndi11odefiy iliouJa : oblig~ y.ou to filence. If you be taken ·with,what you. have heard, fpen~ not your:· tin1e in talk_about it .; pratl:ice is . tbe beft way to com111end it. Beware of that fpi~ . ritual pride and. conceitednefs, which n1akes· the peop.le tr; firive ·with. their priefls *; which the prophet I-Ioft a notes as an hd~ nons fin. .Finally, /To fum up your duty, in the Apofl:le' s words, .Obry' them that har;J~ · .t-he rule over you, and fitbmit~ youifelves..:,. fir they. watch. fir your fouls, as they thatr :mufl g~ve aQ.count: that they ?nay do 'it.wit/} · joy, and not. with grief: Jar that· i.r unpro":"'- , fit able fir-you t:. · - I n1ight, in die next place, tak'e ap .o,c .... .c.afion. from_ ';rhat. has_been faid,. to prefS-. th'e· t Heb~_xiii~ I 11
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