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Such Worfhippers (as our Lord faid to the Woman. of Samaria) the heavenly Father feeketh to worship him; and those whom God finds under fuch Exercife, fuch find him to be unto them all in all; He is unto them Wisdom, Righteousness, Juftification, Sanctification, and Redemption.

Oh! Dear Souls, look to him (who is invifible to the outward Eye) who is God over all, and is bleffed for ever, and may you, if this comes to you, feel the Divine Life, and Spirit of Chrift, in the Reading of this little Epistle of Brotherly Love.

Live in Love, for God is Love, and all thofe who dwell in Divine Love, they dwell in God; wherefore love one another, that thereby you may be known to be Chrift's Difciples: For, fays he, by this hall all Men know that ye are my Difciples, if ye bave Love one to another, or if ye love one another; as one of the Evangelifts hath it.

And keep low in Mind, and humble in Spirit; for the Humble God will teach of his Ways, and the Meek he will guide in Judgment, and thofe whom he teaches, are taught the Myfteries of his Kingdom, which Myfteries he teaches to Spiritual Babes and Sucklings (Glory to his holy Name!) He often hides thofe holy Myfteries from the Wife and Prudent, and reveals them to fuch Men, Women, and Children, as are little in their own Eyes, and defpifed by the Wife in natural Wisdom, or the Wisdom of this vain World.

Oh! mind your heavenly Guide, Dear Friends, let me entreat you; for he leads out of all Sin, and out of all Vanity and Evil, of what Kind foever; and as our Saviour faith, into all Truth. comes by his Grace and Spirit into the Heart, then When Chrift He opens the Soul, and enlighteus the Understanding, even in our common Converfation; and much more

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Dear Friends, though my Heart is full of Love and Good-will to you at this Time, as at many others alfo, I must now conclude and commit you into the holy Arms of him, who is all divine Love, begging the God of Love and Peace to keep you, and preferve you to his heavenly Kingdom; to whom be all Glory, and Praife, Might, Majefty, and divine Dominion, through his dear Son, and the Holy Spirit, for evermore.

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A Short ESSAY, in Order to promote Truth and Righteoufnels in the Earth, and to difcou rage Unholiness, Ungodlinefs, and Unbelief.

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Chriftian Reader,

Norder to promote and exalt the Kingdom of the dear Son of God, (according to the Gift and Measure of Grace received) I was concerned to write the following Traft at Sea; and confidering the evil Tendency of the Belief and Principle which hath overspread a great Part of the Profeffors of Christianity, that we cannot be free from Sin in this Life; and that it is contrary to the Doctrine of the boly Scriptures of both the New, and Old Teftament; I could not be eafy in my Mind without oppofing fuch a dangerous Tenet: For if we believe we must always fin, this being a finful Faith, "according to our "Faith, fo it will be unto us ;" and if we die in our Sins, Chrift bath told us, "where he is gone, we cannot come. And holy Record informs us, "that no unclean Thing can enter God's Kingdom.

I bave alfo, for the further Satisfaction of the true Christian Believer, collected the following Texts of Holy Scripture, which maintain the Doctrine of Holiness and Perfection; and directly oppofe that evil Principle, and that Doctrine, that we can never be free from Sin, in -this Life.

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Walk before me, and be thou Perfect, Gen. xvii. r. Ye shall be Holy, for I the Lord your God am Holy, Lev. xix. 2.-xx. 7.-xi. 44, 45.

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And ye fhall be holy Men unto me, Exod. xxii.

Noab was a juft Man, and perfect in his Generation, Gen. vi. 9.

Without Holinefs, no Man fhall fee the Lord, Heb. xii. 10, 14.

We should be Holy, and without Blame before him, in Love, Eph. i. 4.

To prefent you Holy, Unblameable, and Unreproveable in his Sight, Col. i. 22.

If any Man defile the Temple of God, him fhall God destroy, for the Temple of God is Holy, which Temple ye are, 1 Cor. iii. 17.

So be ye Holy in all Manner of Converfation, be, cause it is written, Be ye Holy; for I am Holy; I Pet. i. 15. 16.

What manner of Perfons ought ye to be in all holy Converfation and Godliness, 2 Pet. iii, 11.

Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God, Deut. xviii. 13.

The Lord laid, Job was perfect and upright, Job i. 1, 8.

Be. ye therefore perfect, the Words of Chrift, Matt. v. 48.

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, John xvii. 23.

Howbeit we speak Wisdom among them that are perfect, Cor. ii. 6.

Finally, Brethren, be perfect, be of one Mind, 2 Cor. xiii. II.

That we may prefent every Man perfect in Chrift Jefus: That ye may ftand perfect and compleat in all the Will of God, Col. i. 28.—iv. 12.

Now the God of Peace, &c. make you perfect in every good Work, Heb. xiii. 20, 21.

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That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing, James i. 4.

Having therefore thefe Promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all Filthinefs of Flesh and Spirit, perfecting Holiness in the Fear of God, 2 Cor. vii. 1.

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ture of the Fulness of Chrift, Eph. iv. 12, 13.
This we wish, even your Perfection, 2 Cor. xiii. 9.
Let us go on to Perfection, Heb. vi. 1.

Be not overcome of Evil, but overcome Evil with Good, Rom. xii. 21.

Ye have overcome the wicked One; this is twice repeated in one Chapter, 1 John ii. 13, 14.

Ye are of God, and have overcome, 1 John iv. 4. Whatsoever is born of God overcometh the World, &c. 1 John v. 4, 5.

To him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the Tree of Life: Rev. ii. 7.

He that overcometh, fhall not be hurt of the fecond Death, Verse 11.

To him that overcometh, will I give to eat of the hidden Manna, Verse 17

To him that overcometh, will I give Power over the Nations, Verse 26.

He that overcometh, the fame fhall be clothed in white Raiment, Rev. iii. 5.

Him that overcometh, will I make a Pillar in the Temple of my God, and he fhall go no more out, Verse 12.

To him that overcometh, will I grant to fit with me in my Throne, Verfe 21.

He that overcometh, fhall inherit all Things, Rev. xxi. 7.

Confider then, courteous Reader, I pray thee: What was all this Language of the Spirit, all thefe Words of God, andall thefe Commands, Exhortations, and glorious Promifes, for? What is the End and Tendency of them?

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