You have mightily increased in your outward substance, may you
equally increase in your inward riches, and do good with both, while you
have a day to do good. Your enemies would once have taken what you had,
from you, for his name's sake in whom you have believed; wherefore he has
given you much of the world, in the face of your enemies. But O, let it
be your servant, and not your master! your diversion rather than your
business! let the Lord be chiefly in your eye, and ponder your ways, and
see if God has nothing more for you to do: and if you find yourselves
short in your account with him, then wait for his preparation, and be
ready to receive the word of command, and be not weary of well-doing,
when you have put your hand to the plough; and, assuredly, you shall
reap, if you faint not, the fruit of your heavenly labour in God's
everlasting kingdom.
And you, young convinced ones, be you entreated and exhorted to a
diligent and chaste waiting upon God, in the way of his blessed
manifestation and appearance of himself to you. Look not out, but
within: let not another's liberty be your snare: neither act by
imitation, but by sense and feeling of God's power in yourselves: crush
not the tender buddings of it in your souls, nor over-run, in your
desires and warmness of affections, the holy and gentle motions of it.
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