m No more yainly boaſt of F«cob ; but, as he, do you approve your ſelves to God. 7 Repent, leave Idols, and all Sins. He worſhipp'd God alone, do you ſo ; he caft Idols out of his Family, do you fo too ; be Facob's Children herein. o Shew Kindneſs to all who need it, caft off Cruelty and Inkumanity, and be merciful to the afflifted ; this contains all the Duties we owe to any that are in ftraits. p Wron none ; but with Juſtice in Dealings, in Judicatures, and publick Off: ces, render to every one their Due. Acquit the Innocent, and con- demn the Guilty,and let none have juft Cauſe to complain of Injuries. q In publickWorſhip and PrivateDutiesof Prayer and ſecking God, him only ſerve and truſt; let not Idols have either Sacrifice, Prayer, Praiſe | 7 And let your Hope and Worſhip be perpetuat- ed, for ever continued towards God, till he ſave and reſcue z truſt, pray, and reſign your ſelves to him who will be yours as he was Fa- cob*s God, on theſe Terms, and no other. This ſhort Phraſe, wars on thy God, includes all Duties of the firſt Table of the Law, all religi- ous Worſhip of the true God ; do this, and the Lord will be to you, as to Facob, Defence againſt Danger and Fulneſs in your Wants.
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have found me our ſubſtance y : || #2 all my labours they «. ſhall find none iniquity in me, | that were fin z, [| Or, all w This covetous oppreſſive Merchant reckon'd with himſelf, or 7 1abours diſcourſed with himſelf upon the whole of his Trading. x Whate're /#//ice me is aid by ſome, or thought by others, yet I get what I aim at : either #9 : he *tis good and lawful, and proſpered to me by the Bleſſing of God on it, Shall have becauſe *tis juſt and righteous ; or *tis not ſo bad as moroſe Prophets P*niſhmens and Preachers make it, or at worſt (which I will venture, ſaith Ephra- of imyfuiy im) it leſſens my Innocency, but improves my ſtock ; and this is more 77 whom is to ſuch Merchants than all the poor Innocence in the World, y The #n ſame thing with a vain Boaſt of what is not in his Wealth and Sub- Þ Heb. ſtance. If in his Gain be aſſumed his own only to himſelf, it were Phich.
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pent, and humble themſelves, and at laſt remember their Primogeni- re, and labour to recover to a Temper worthy this their Original. Facob ſtrove for the Bleſſing in the Womb, but you profanely neglett it in full Age. q This Strength was not of Nature but of Grace, a
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obtain'd the Bleſſing ; but you let it ſlip out of your "Hands and fin it away: There was ſomewhat of Heroick, a Conqueror from his Birth, | butyou are Revolters from the Womb.
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