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THE CHRISTIAN'S

them with your purse, help them with your praycrs and sympathy, and such offices of kindness and humility, as may make the miserable to bless you. Prov. xxii 9 and xix, 17. Job xiii 26.

Exh. 33. Study more to be well grounded in the fundemental principles of religion, than spending your time about matters debetable, or disputable; see you do nothing that may break the peace and unity of the church; go not without the bounds of your station, under a pretence of zeal and public spirit. John xvii 3 1 Pet. iii. 15 Psal. cxxxi. 1,

Exh. 34. Carry a due respect; both the magistrates and ministers; obey them in all things lawful, if in any thing you be public faulters and offenders, willingly subject both to civil punishment, and the church discipline and censures; regard and reverence rulers as your superiors Rom xiii 1,-8. Heb xiii 13

Exh. 35. Do all you can in your station for promoting the interests of the gospel, as God doth call and enable you join not with any perfecutors, to trouble any one for their religion and conscience