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III. What does he abhor or disapprove?
1. Generally, Sin.

2. Particularly, Prov. Vi. 16, 17; 18, 19:
1. Pride, Prov. xvi. 5.

2. Lies, Prov. xii. 22. Pfal. cxix. 163.
3. Murder.

4. Wicked Imaginations, Pfal. cxix. 113.

Prov. xv. 26.

5. Mischief, Pfal. xi. 5:

6. Falfe Witness.

7: Difcord

8. Idolatry, Jer. xxxii. 35. 1 Reg. xi. 5,76 9. Covetoufnefs, Pfal. x. 3:

to. Cheating, or divers Weights,Prou.xx: 10, 23.

11. Witchcraft, Deut. xviii. 10, 11, 12. 12. False Doctrines, Rev. ii. 15.

USE

Examine, Whether you be thus eternally holy or no?

Confider,

1. If you be mistaken here, you are undone. 2. Many have been mistaken, Matt. vii. 22. C. XXV. II, 12.

3. Your not examining your felves whether you be holy, is a Sign you are not fo. 2 Cor. xiii. 5.

4. It particularly concerns us to examine our felves now, because of the Sacrament.

xi. 28.

DIRECTIONS.

1. Search the Scriptures, John v. 39. 2. Obferve your Lives, Lam. 3. 40.

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Your Thoughts.

2. Affections.

1. Repentance. 2. Faith.

3. Love.

4. Defires.

5. Joys. 3. Actions.

1. Civil, Matt. vii. 12.
2. Spiritual, 1 Cor. x. 31.

3. Compare your Lives with the Laws of God, Gal. vi. 16.

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Exhort. Labour after Holiness.
Confider,

I. The Excellency of its Nature.

1. It is the Image of God, I Pet. i. 15: Gen. i. 26. Eph. iv. 24.

2. The Perfection of the Soul.

II. Its Profitableness, Job xxi. 15. 1 Tim. iv. 8. By it we may have,

1. Pardon of Sin.

2. The Favour of God, Pfal. xxx. §.
3. A Mansion in Heaven, Job. xiv. 2.

III. Its Honours, Prov. xii. 26.

1. Honourable Titles, 1 Pet. ii. 9.

2. The Attendants of Angels, Heb. i. 14. Pfal. xci. II.

3. Relation to God.

4. Free Admiffion to Him, Heb. iv. 16. IV. Its Pleasures.

1. In knowing God, and the Things of Eternity.

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2. In thinking upon them.

3. In having good Ground to believe we shall enjoy them.

4. In our present Communion with God.

V. Its Neceffity.

1. To true Comfort here.

2. To Happiness hereafter, Heb. xii. 14.

MEANS. 1. Read.

2. Pray.

3. Hear.

4. Meditate.

5. Receive Sacraments.

II. What is External Holiness?

The Conformity of the Life of Man to the
Law of God.

1. What is the Life of Man? Whatfoever

I. He thinks.

2. Speaks.

3. Or does in this Life.

2. What is the Law of God?

Whatsoever God in his Word hath enjoyned all Men to obferve. This Law is, Deut. iv. 12, 13, 14. c. vi. 1.

1. Ceremonial. Impofed upon the Jews only from Mofes till Christ.

1. To preserve them from Idolatry.

2. To lead them to Chrift, Gal. iii. 24. Col. ii.

17.

Now it is of no Force; as appears,

1. From Scripture, Acts xv.

2. Reason.

The End being now taken

away,

away, Heb. ix. 10. c. vii. 12. Ego liberd voce pronunciem ceremonias Judeorum & perniciofas mortiferas effe Chriftianis, Hieron. ad Auguft. Epift.

2. Judicial. Of the Civil Polity.

This alfo difannulled, being only for Jews,
Rom. xiv. I. 1 Pet. ii. 13.

3. Moral. This ftill in Force; for,
1. The Scripture doth not repeal it ;
2. But establishes it, Matt. v. 17. c. xix. 17,

18.

3. Reafon confirms it.

1. 'Tis the eternal Rule of Juftice in God. 2. Established before Chrift and Mofes, Matt. xix. 8.

3. It is a standing Law to all Nations and Times.

3. What by Conformity?

When our Lives are according to this Law, in Omiffions and Commiffions.

In obferving,

1. The Matter.

2. The Manner.

1. Knowingly, I Cor. xiv. 15.
2. Obedientially, Pfal. cxix. 6.

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3. Chearfully, Rom. xii. 8.
4. Univerfally, Pfal. cxix. 6.

5. Conftantly.

3. The End. God's Glory and Pleasure,

1 Cor. X. 31.

This Law we must obey:

1. In our Underftandings.

1. Know God, 1 Chron. xxviii. 9.

2. Meditate on his Word, Josh. 1. 8.

3. Confider our latter End, Deut. xxxii. 29.

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2. The

2. The Will.

Chufe no other God but Jehovah, Exod. xx. 3. 3. The Affections.

1. Simple.

1. Love God, Deut. vi. 5.

2. Love thy Neighbour as thy felf, Matt.
xxii. 37. Lev. xix. 18.

3. Love your Enemies, Matt. v. 44.
2. Truft in the Lord, Prov. ții. 5.
3. Fear God, Lev. XXV. 17. Ifa. viii. 13.
4. Defire not thy Neighbour's Goods, Exod.
xx. 17. Pfal. lxxiii. 25.

5. Rejoyce in the Lord, Phil. iv. 4.
6. Repent, Ezek. xiv. 6. Matt. iii. 2.
7. Be Angry, but Sin not, Eph. iv. 2.6.
2. Mixt.

1. Believe in Christ, A&t. xvi. 31.

2. Be thankful, I Thef. v. 18.

4. The outward Life and Conversation.

i. In fpeaking.

1. Swear not at all, Matt. v. 34.

2. Nor Lie, Lev. xix. 11.

2. Actions.

I. Do all with thy Might, Eccl. ix. 10

2. To God's Glory, 1 Cor. x. 3.

3. Do as ye would be done by, Matt. vii. 12.

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