Means of Grace, thereby drawing Grace continually from him, bring forth any good Fruit of good Works of ourselves; and therefore the chief Praise and Honour of them is due to him.

IV. I fhall now in the laft Place remove a Doubt or two, which rifes from this Doctrine but I shall very much contract what might be faid upon this Head, in Regard to your Time and and Patience.

1. First then, One Doubt rifing from this Doctrine, is this: If we are to take Care to be very exemplary in good Works; and if in all our good Works we are directly to aim at the Honour and Glory of God, we fhall be fo taken up with continual Thoughts of God, that we shall neither have Time, nor be in any Capacity to mind the ordinary Business and Concerns of Life. To this I fhall briefly answer thefe two Things. 1. That the Thoughts of God, and the habitual Defigning of his Glory, is fo far from being an Hindrance of Bufinefs, that it is a very great Furtherance of it; as keeping the Mind in a right Frame, and holding it to its ftreight Course, helps it in the Dispatch of its Affairs. Just as at Sea a careful Looking at the Compafs, and fteering exactly to the true Point to which the Course is fhaped, is fo far from being an Hindrance, that it is a mighty Furtherer of the Voyage; for if at any Time the Compafs is not minded, and the Veffel is left to dance about, without being kept up to the true Point, every one knows there is just so much Time loft, and it will coft fo much more to get in to the right Courfe again. 2. I anfwer, that provided the Mind be habitually fet on God, and his Glory the Point to which we VOL. I.

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2. There is another Doubt I thought to have cleared; namely, how the Sight of our good Works is apt to excite Men to glorify God. But I find an exact Difcuffion of this Queftion would draw me out into a great Length. And therefore I fhall content myself with a very short Answer, namely, that as the Sight of well-bred Children, who behave themselves exactly in all Points of Duty, is naturally apt to make Men have very honourable Thoughts of their Parents and Teachers; and as the Obfervation of a well disciplined Army, is naturally apt to give one honourable Thoughts of their General, and Superiour Officers; fo the Sight of the good Works of Chriftians, is as apt to give the World a most honourable Idea of their Heavenly Father and Master; and is the readiest Way to bring in Profelytes to that holy Religion, which by his Doctrine and Example our Saviour planted in the World.

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To conclude then ; let us fhew the Sincerity of our Faith, by the Exemplariness of our Lives and Conversations. Let our Light fo fhine before Men, that they may see our good Works, and glorify our Father which is in Heaven. Now to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, let us render, aş is due, all Praise, &c.

FINIS.

Cornhill; and J. Ofwald in the Poultry.

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