than the neglect of our
Christian ca ling; which is not to serve the little uses of a short lise, but to redeem souls unto God, to sill heaven with faints, and sinish a kingdom of eternal glory unto God.N o man therefore must think himself excused from the
exactness of piety and morality, because he has chosen to be
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priest, or a
father of a family ; but he is to be a pious priest, and a good father, because piety and good
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laws of human nature. Could any man please God, without living according to
reason and
order, there would be nothing difpleasing to God in an
idle priest, or a
reprobate father. He theresore that abuses his
reason, is like him that abuses the
priesthood and he that neglec
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Christian life, is as the man that disregards the most
important trust. If a man was to chuse to putout his
eyes, rather than enjoy the light, and see the works of God; if he should voluntarily kill himself, by resusing to eat and drink, every one would own, that such a one was a rebel against God, that justly deserved his highest indignation. You would not fay, that this was only sinsul in a
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reason, that act a different part from that sor which God created them, are like this man, rebels against God, and on the fame account subject to hi* wrath.Let Ib suppofe that this man instead of putting out his eyes, had only employed them in looking at
ridiculous things, or shut them up in
steep; that instead of
starving himself to death, by not eating at all, he should turn every meal into a
feast, and eat and drink like an
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