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it as our Duty so do in all Circumstances; but, in the Name of God, how do we pratise it? Why, we are willing to truft God for our Livelihood, so long as we have fomething to live on : We are willing to trust God with any other Concern, so long as that Concern goes on profperoufly: But if our visible Supports do chance to fail us, or if the Thing we are concerned for seem to go contrary to our Desires and Expectations, why then our Trust in God is gone, and we are as anxious, and as querulous, and as discontented, as if we were no Christians; or, as if indeed there was no God that took care of our Affairs. The Truth is, most of us do live too much without God; though we talk much of him, yet we have little Respect to him in our Defigns and Actions. We say our Prayers to him perhaps, and have our constant Times of appearing before him for religious Worship (and assuredly, as Things go, even this is a great Virtue.) But take us out of our Devotions, I doubt God is not much in our Thoughts; at least our Love, our Fear, our Sense of him, doth not much influence either our Words or our Actions. Indeed our Conversation, generally speaking, is so managed, as if we were no way concerned with God, had nothing at all to do with him, save just at the

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Time we are making folemn Addresses to him. But all this is infinitely different from the Spirit and Temper of our Lord Jesus, and the Way that he lived in the World. If we mean to follow his Example, we must be religious, as he was; we must endeavour to possess our Hearts with fuch a vigorous Sense of God, and his Prefence and Sovereignty over us, as most entirely to devote ourselves to his Service; so that the Fear, and Love, and Sense of him, shall have some Power and Influence upon the Government of our whole Lives. We must make it the Business of every Day's Conversation to serve him, and promote his Interest in the World, and not think we have well acquitted ourselves towards him by now and then offering up a few Prayers. We must acknowledge him in all our Ways, by owning all the Good we do enjoy or hope for to be the mere Effect of his Bounty; by bearing patiently and quietly all the hard Things we fuffer, though, as we think, never so undeservedly; by repofing our Trust and Confidence in him in all the Extremities we are reduced to; by applying to him for Succour, or Direction, or Support, under all Temptations and Difficulties; and lastly, by refigning ourselves entirely (as far as the Imperfection of our present State will allow)

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to his Will, being heartily willing to be whatever he would have us to be, being willing to do whatever he would have us to do, and being willing to fuffer whatever he thinks fit to lay upon us. This is to love, this is to serve, this is to honour and glorify God, as our blessed Lord and Master did. This is to walk as we have him for an Example. And indeed this, and this alone, is the true Spirit of Christianity, and the true Principles from whence all the other Duties of our Religion, whether they respect our Neighbours, or ourselves, will naturally flow. And for your Encouragement to labour after such a Frame and Temper of Soul, I will add this, That this is the certain and never-failing Method, not only to sweeten all the Labours and Troubles that we meet with in this Life, and to make our Passage through this World, in all Conditions and Circumstances, easy and comfortable; but also to anticipate the Joys of Heaven, to have some Share of the Happiness above, even while we live here below, through the ineffable Peace, and Contentment, and Satisfaction, and Pleasure, that will continually arise in our Minds from the having our Wills thus united to God's Will.

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And thus I have said what I intended about the Life of our Saviour. God Almighty give a Blessing to it, that we may all so confider this Example which he left, that we may follow his Steps.

Which God of his infinite Mercy grant, &c.

The End of VOL. V.

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