"Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live after
the flesh." Rom. 8: 12.
If thou wouldst be faithful to that work that God hath allotted thee
to do in this world for his name, then labor to see a beauty and
glory in holiness and in every good work; this tends much to the
engaging of thy heart. O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;
fear before him all the earth; and for thy help in this, think much
on this in general, that "thus saith the Lord" is the wind-up of
every command; for indeed much of the glory and beauty of duties
doth lie in the glory and excellency of the person that doth command
them; and hence it is, that "Be it enacted by the king's most
excellent majesty" is the head of every law, that that law should
therefore be reverenced by and be made glorious and beautiful to
all. And we see upon this very account, what power and place the
precepts of kings do take in the hearts of their subjects, every one
loving and reverencing the statute because there is the name of
their king. Will you rebel against the king? is a word that shakes
the world. Well then, turn these things about for an argument to the
matter in hand, and let the name of God, seeing he is wiser and
better and of more glory and beauty than kings, beget in thy heart a
beauty in all things that are commanded thee of God.
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