the badge 't is the beauty 't is the blessing of the Church My Dove is but one saith Christ the daughter saw her and blessed her Yea there the Lord comâ—…andeth the blessing even life for evermore Exod. 36.13 Phil. 1.27 Zach. 11.10,14 Cantic 6.9 Psal 13.3 throughout 5. Vnfeignedly both as concerns the external management of your Confession and the internal minde wherewith you confess You may not corrupt the Word of God nor contemper humane traditions with divine truths or cunningly dawb over your own worldly ends or errors yea or Gods work and interest with the enticing words of mans wisdom This work must be done in demonstration of the spirit and of power As of sincerity as of God in the sight of God so should you speak in Christ 2 Cor. 2.17 Col. 2.18,21 1 Cor. 2.45 Alas for the old holy simplicity and sincerity of Profession which is swallowed up most-what in the sink of selfish policy though spread and shadowed over with several guizes of piety Christians look to your spirits as well as speech Be sure you speak the truth in and from your hearts Bring us forth your good things out of the good treasure of a good heart Psal 15.1,2 Mat. 12.34,35 Let your thoughts sense what your tongues speak That is the excellent Confession which comes from experience in the speaker who speaks what he feels and is usually consequented with choicest effectâ— in the hearers who feel what the others speak 1 John 1.1,3,4 Act. 4.20,21 6. Vniversally both as respects things and times with the limits premised You must never flinch till you have finished your testimony nor forbear confessing till you have finished your course but must fight it out to the last drop in the good fight of faith as ever you would finde that Crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge reserveth for his victorious Confessors who will not quit the Cause nor desert the Colours Rev. 11.7 2 Tim. 4.7 On with your spiritual armour you holy Confessors you and I in this cause abhor Civil gird them fast about you having the shield of faith in one hand and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God in the other These are mighty through God to the pulling down of the strong holds of sinne and Satan Follow the Captain of your salvation who was made perfect through sufferings Love not your lives to the death You have not yet resisted unto blood striving against sin Behold Christ hath set before thee an open door A bold Confession will have a blessed Conclusion in an happy Conquest or an honourable Crown Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee the Crown of life Rom. 13.12 Eph. 6.11 19. 2 Cor. 10.4 Heb. 2.10 Rev. 12.11 Heb. 12.6 Rev. 3.8 2.10 7. Vnoffensively Give no offence no not in any thing or unto any man that the blessed Gospel be not blamed 1 Cor. 10.32 2 Cor. 6.3 Lord it not herein over other men as if their faith were to be limited by thy faith much less by thy phancie 2 Cor. 1 24. 1 Pet. 5.3 Be lowly and meek in your answers to them that ask you yea though they are adversaries to you 1 Pet. 3.15 2 Tim. 2.25 Set aside whatever matters or modes of expression may justly harden or provoke them and study to please wherein thou mayest profit them 1 Cor. 10.33 Rom. 15.2 Comport your selves agreeable to the circumstances you are in Others lose the benefit and your selves may lose the blessing of your Confession by an unbecoming circumstance oft-times therein Mind what they can now bear who are private men Iohn 16 12. and whose authority they also bear who are publick Magistrates That your zeal for God may be tempered with submission to Governours as it ought and so neither those not these may take any just offence 1 Pet. 2.13 17. Rom. 13.4,5 8. Vltimately for God 'T is the end specially of intention that puts the due estimate upon any employment or action Spiritual exercises without spiritual ends signifie nothing in Gods esteem Zech. 7.5,6 Hos 7.14 The true value of all Confession whether vocal or virtual active or passive is principally from your end in Confession not from the end of Confession finis operis but from your end in Confession finis operantis Whatever profession you make or persecutions you endure if your purpose and design thereby determine but in your selves in self-applaus self-approbation c. you miserably destroy the same as to your souls advantage and our Saviours acceptation because you therein make your selves your God your idol and manifestly usurp upon the throne of God and shall therefore reap nothing but shame and sorrow Ier. 17.13 16.10,11 Psal 73.27 See then that you do not spoile all at last with not intending God upmost Let your Confessions of the Truths of God conclude and terminate alone in the God of Truth If your ends be rotten you ruine all and abuse Religion Though your bodies may be burnt neither souls nor bodies shall be blest And though you may be killed and called Martyrs yet as long as Charity toward God was not your principle and the Glory of God was not your end you shall be sure to lose the Crown of Martyrdom FINIS