Page:Choice drop of honey from the rock, Christ, or, A short word of advice to all saints and sinners.pdf/22

Rh grace of the gospel. High professor, despise not weak saints; thou mayest come to wish to be in the condition of the meanest of them. Overlook the infirmities of others, but be sensible of thy own. Visit sick beds and deserted souls much, they are excellent scholars in experience.

Abide in your calling, be dutiful to all relations as to the Lord. Be content with little of the world, little will serve. Think every little of the earth much, because unworthy the least. Think much of heaven not too little, because Christ is so rich and free. Think every thing better than thyself, and carry every self-loathing about thee, as one fit to be trampled upon by all saints. See the vanity of the world, and the consumption that is upon all things, and love nothing but Christ. Mourn to see so little of Christ in the world, so few needing him. Trifles please them better. To a secure soul Christ is but a fable, the Scriptures but a story. Mourn to think how many under baptism and church order, that are not under grace; looking much after duty and obedience, but little after Christ, little versed in grace. Prepare for the cross, welcome it, bear it triumphantly like Christ’s cross, whether scoffs, mockings, jeers, contempt and imprisonments, &c. but see that it be Christ’s cross.