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And befides this, giving all Diligence, add to your Faith Virtue, and to Virtue Knowledge, and to Knowledge Temperance, and to Temperance Patience, and to Patience Godliness, and to Godlinefs brotherly Kindness, and to brotherly Kindnefs Charity. For if thefe Things be in you and abound, they make you that ye fhall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the Knowledge of our Lord Jefus Chrift. But he that lacketh thefe Things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old Sins.

Walk as Children of Light, proving what is acceptable unto the Lord; and always abounding in the Work of the Lord: Forafmuch as ye know that your Labour is not in vain in the Lord.

We exhort and charge every one of you, that ye would walk worthy of the Vocation wherewith ye are called; worthy of God, who hath called you to his Kingdom and Glory; worthy of the Lord, unto all pleafing; being fruitful in every good Work, and increafing in the Knowledge of God.

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your Love abound yet more and more in Knowledge and in all Judgment; that ye may be filled with the Fruits of Righteoufnefs, which are by Jefus Chrift, unto the Glory and Praise of God.

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Herein (faith Chrift) is my Father glorified, that bear much Fruit; fo fhall ye be my Difciples. * Let us therefore go on unto Perfection; and forgetting thofe Things which are behind, and reaching forth unto thofe Things which are before,

s Eph. 5. 8, 10. I Cor. 15. 58.

Theff. 2. 12.

r 2 Pet. 1. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. tr Theff. 2. II. Eph. 4. 1. "Phil. 1. 9, 10, 11. W John 15. 8. Heb. 6. 1.

Col. 1. 10. Phil. 3. 13.

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let us prefs toward the Mark for the Prize of the high Calling of God in Christ Jesus. ̈

y Seek that ye may excel. Approve Things that are excellent: Covet earnestly the best Gifts.

z Let your Conversation be as it becometh the Gofpel of Chrift; and so that ye may adorn the Doctrine of God our Saviour in all Things.

He who faith he abideth in Chrift, ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

b Be ye Followers of God, as dear Children. And let every Man that hath this Hope in him, purify himself, even as he is pure; and be righteous, even as he is righteous.

• As he which hath called you is holy, fo be ye holy in all manner of Converfation; because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.

Be ye perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the Sons of God without Rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse Nation, among whom ye fhine as Lights in the World.

Let your Light fo thine before Men, that they may fee your good Works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven.

f Except your Righteoufnefs fhall exceed the Righteoufnels of the Scribes and Pharifees, ye fhall in no wife enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

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PERSEVERANCE.

Let us hold faft the Profeffion of our Faith without wavering.

A Continue ye in the Faith, grounded and fettled, and be not moved away from the Hope of the Gospel which ye have heard.

i Beware, left being led away by the Error of the Wicked, ye fall from your own Stedfaftnefs. For we are made Partakers of Chrift, if we hold the Beginning of our Confidence stedfast unto the End.

* If ye continue in my Word, then (faith Chrift) are ye my Difciples indeed.

They which have believed in God should be careful to maintain good Works. Keep your felves therefore in the Love of God; wait on God continually; and be conftant to do his Com. mandments.

m Look to yourfelves, that ye lofe not those Things which ye have wrought; but that ye receive a full Reward.

Let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed left he fall.

Let us not be weary in well-doing: For in due Seafon we fhall reap, if we faint not.

Till I die I will not remove my Integrity from me: My Righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my Heart shall not reproach me fo long as I live.

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Because Iniquity fhall abound, the Love of many fhall wax cold; but he that thall endure unto the End, the fame fhall be faved.

When the Righteous turneth away from his Righteoufnefs, and committeth Iniquity, and doth according to all the Abominations that the wicked Man doth, all his Righteoufnefs that he hath done thall not be mentioned; in his Trefpafs that he hath trefpaffed, and in his Sin that he hath finned, in them thall he die.

If they that had efcaped the Pollutions of the World, through the Knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrift, are again entangled therein and overcome; the latter End is worfe with them than the Beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the Way of Righteoulnefs, than after they have known it, to turn from the holy Commandment delivered unto them. »

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As ye have therefore received Chrift Jefus the Lord, fo walk ye in him; holding Faith and a good Confcience, and continuing in the Love of Chrift; that when he fhall appear, ye may have Confidence, and not be alhamed before him at his coming.

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The hoary head is a Crown of Glory, if it be found in the Way of Righteoufnefs.

q Mat. 24. 12, 15. Col. 2. 6.

# Prov. 16. 31.

Ezek. 18. 24. • 2 Pet. 2. 20, 21. 28.

1 Tim. 1. 19. John 15.9.

1 John 2.

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CHAP. X.

Concerning REPENTANCE.

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In GENERAL.

OD commandeth all Men every where to repent; and to turn to him, and to do Works meet for Repentance.

God requireth that which is paft; therefore let every Man repent him of his Wickedness, faying, What have I done?

Our Trangreffions are multiplied before God, and our Sins teftify against us; yea, the very, beft of our Works are not found perfect before God: Let us be zealous therefore, and repent.

4 Stand not in an evil Thing. Wath thine Heart from Wickednefs, that thou mayeft be faved: How long thall thy vain Thoughts lodge

within thee?

Return unto the Lord with all your Hearts. For the Lord is not willing that any fhould perif but that all fhould come to Repentance,

f Return unto me, (faith the Lord) for I have redeemed you: Return unto me, and I will return unto you.

a Acts 17. 30.

cdfa. 59. 12. e I Sam. 7. 3.

Acts 26, 201
Rev. 3. 2, 19:
2 Pet. 3. 9.

b Ecclef. 3.-15. Jer. 8.-6. d Ecclef. 8. 3 gr. 4 14% + Ifa. 44. 22. Mal. 3..7.. Q-4

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