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Show in all your Thoughts, Words and AClions; and • fuch an awful Senfe of his Greatnefs, and his Power over you and all Creatures, and fuch a Honor at the greatetl: of all Evils, Vice and Impiety, and fuch a Fear of the irrefitl:ible V engeance of Omnipotence, as may efFeCtually rcfuain you from daring to oftend him. That he may give his Angels charge over you, that they may tl:and by you in tlje dreadful Hour of Temptation, and withhold you in time, before you have irrecove rably plunged yourfelf into Guilt. That in his g,ood Providence he may bring upon you fuch Misfortunes and Chatl:ifements, whenever you tranfgrefs, that you may always read your Sin in your Punilhmcnt, and be driven, by thofe well-timed and fatherly CorreCtions, to forfake the F allies which have brought them upon you, 'and to return to the Ways of Sobriety and Regularity. That you may be led to the Admiration and Love of all thole Virtues and Graces, which arc the only true Ornaments of our Nature. That, through the D1vme Affitl:ance, you may improve in , every truly valuable Endowment necefiiny to fit you for being an Advantage and Bleffino to Society, while in this World; and th~t alter having,. Day by Day, and Year after' Year gone on railing one Improvement upon another' one V~rtue upon another, not contenting your~. folf With moderate Degrees of Goodnefs but aiming at the Example of the glorious A~thor of our Religion, and of God himfelf, you may have an eafy Admiffion. to th;t happy State, where you may for ever nfe to h1gher and hioher ~egrers of PerfeCtion; to Glory, and Great;cfs, mexpreflible by mortal Tongue, inconceivable by ( 61 ) ·by human Imagination, to Degrees of Elevaiion, from whence you may look down on the Rank at prefent held by Angels ; nay to Stations beyond the prefent Conception of the highe!f Archangel in Heaven ; for fuch mutl: be the Progrefs of every glorified Spirit, who is placed in a Condition in all ' ref peels advantageous for Improvement, with an Eternity to improve in. And, through the efFectual and all powerful Bleffing of Heaven upon my Labours among you, may it be my lfappinefs to prove the lntl: rument (however unworthy) of putting you firft in the Way to a Felicity begun in this World, but never to come to an End ; and to rejoice in your _Joy, and glory in your Glory, to all Etermty. . I'OST-: |