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rhus, and Euplus, and Fronto, in whom I have feen you all in Love. And may I always have Joy of you, if I fhall be worthy of it. It is therefore fit ting that every way you fhould glorify Jefus Chrift, who has glorified you; that by an united Obedience you may be perfect ly joined together in the fame Mind, and in the fame Judgment; and may all fpeak alike concerning the fame things; that being fubject to your Bishop and his Presbytery, you may be entirely fanctify'd.

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III. I do not Ordain things for you, as if I were fome great Perfon. For tho' I am bound for the Name of Jefus Chrift,

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every Thing And that being fubject to your Bishop, and the Presbytery, ye may be wholly and throughly Sanctified.

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I am not yet perfect. For now I do but begin to be a Difciple, and I fpeak to you as my Fellow Servants; for I ought to have been admonish'd by you, in Faith, in Inftruction, in Patience, in Long-fuffering. But forafmuch as Love does not fuffer me to be filent towards you, therefore have I first ta ken upon me to exhort you, that you would confpire together to obey the Will of God. For Jefus Chrift does all things according to the Will of his Father; as Himself fomewhere faith; I do always those things that please him. Wherefore We ought to Live according to the Will of God in Chrift, and to Imitate him, as Paul did. Be ye followers of me, fays he, even as I alJo am of Chrift.

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am bound for His Name, I am not yet perfect in Chrift Jefus. But now I begin to learn, and I fpeak to you as Fellow-Difciples together with Me. For I ought to have been ftirred up by you, in Faith, in Admonition, in Patience, in Longfuffering: But forafmuch as Charity fuffers me not to be Joh.VIII. filent towards you, 29. I have first taken upon me to exhort you, that ye would all run together aecording to the Will of God. For even Jefus Chrift, Our infeparable Life, is fent by the Will of the Father; as the Bishops appointed unto the utmost Bounds of the Earth, are by the Will of Jefus Chrift.

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the Bishop's Will, who feeds you according to God. Which indeed you already do, as being inftructed by the Spirit. For your famous Presbytery, worthy of God, is as exactly fuited to their Bifhop, as the Strings are to their Harp. Even fo being joined together in that Unanimity and agreeing Affection, of which Jefus Chrift is the Captain and Guardian, Do ye each Man of you join to make up one Choir: That agreeing together in Concord, and having Union with God, you may be come One in Unity and Confent with God the Father, and his Beloved Son Jefus Christ our Lord. For, fays He, Grant to them, Holy Father, that they may be One in us, as I and Thou are One. Wherefore it is profitable for you, being joined together in an unblameable Unity in God, to be Followers of Chrift's Example; whofe Mem bers alfo ye are.

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according to the Will of your Bifhop, as alfo ye do. For your Famous Presbytery, worthy of God, is fitted as exactly to the Bifhop, as the Strings are to the Harp. Therefore in your Concord,and agreeing Charity, Jefus Chrift is Sung; and every single Perfon among you makes up theChorus: That fo being all Confonant in Love, and taking up the Song of God, ye may in a perfect Unity, with one Voice, fing to the Father by Jefus Chrift; to the end that he may both Joh.XVII hear you, and per- 11, 21. ceive by your Works that ye are indeed the Members of hisSon. Wherefore it is profitable for you to live in an unblamableUnity, that fo ye may always have a Fellowship with God. V. For if I in

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