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ever zealous
in those services which
God
employs
them
in, we
doubt
not,
We
cannot
disbelieve. And this
ac-
tive
zeal in
the service
df
God,
and
pursuit
of
his
glory,
is
the very ternper and practice
of
the
true
chris-
tian;
and
that not
only in some more
important
enter
-
prizes,
but
in
the common actions
of
life:
Whether
he
eat
of drink,
or
whatsoever
he does,
he
makes
it
his
rule of
life,
to do
all
to the
glory
of
God,
.1
Cor.
x.
31.
Now
this subtime
zeal,
this
noble activity for
the ser-
vice
of God
and
his
glory, was
not
found among
the
professors
of
other
religions.
To
glorify
God,
was
not
their
aim
and
end;
those
that
rose highest among the old
philosophers,
had
not
set
their
aim
and end
right: They
that
knew
God,
glorified
him
not
as
God,
Rom.
i.
21:
They
did
not
make the glory
of God
the
great
design
of
their
actions
:
It
was
not
zeal
for
God that animated
them to
pursue virtue,
but
merely
their
own
ends,
their
own
satisfaction or
ease,
or
the vanity
of
their
owit
minds, pride,
and
attempt
of
superiority
above
other
men;
or,
at
best,
their
motives
of
action
were
the
rea-
sonableness
of
virtue, and the benefit
of
it
to
themselves
and
their
fellow
-
citizen.
But
the glory
Of
God
is
they
aim of
Christians,
and the
end
of
every
true
believer:
he
has
some
degree
of
zeal
for
the
honour
of
God,
and
therefore
is
aètive
in
those duties which
God proposes
to
him.
When
we
See
a
person regardless
of
all
his
self-inte-
rests
in
the
world,
and
at
the
same time
pursuing the
honour of
an invisible
God,
following
hard after the
glory'of that God that
his
fleshly eyes
have
not seen;
we
may
say
he
has something above what mere
corrupt na-
ture
leads
him to
or
impresses
upon
him.
The
believer
has
this
witness in himself, zeal
and
activity for
the
glory
Of
God
in the world.
V.
The last
thing
that
goes to
make up
holiness,
is
a
hearty
love to
all
risen,
and especially
to
the saints.
This
is
a
noble ingredient
of eternal life;
this
is
a
divine
and
heavenly
temper;
this
is
a
beautiful
part of
the irnage
òf
God
communicated
to
the
soul
of
man.
That
God'
*ho
is
the original
and foundation
of eternal
life,
is
a
glorious
pattern
of this
Iove;
he makes
his
sun to rise,
and
his
rain
to
fall
on
the
just
and
on
the
unjust,