renouncing all secret dishonesty, and void of all artifice, I deliver the word of God unadulterated, and recommend my self by urging the truth home to every man's conscience, as in the presence of God.

I don't mean to prescribe to you, but that the zeal of others may show you are as sincerely well-affected.

Speaking the truth

Jesus seeing Nathanael coming, said of him, there's a true Israelite, in whom is no guile. how do you know me?

Let love be without dissimulation. abhor that which is evil, adhere to that which is good.

suppose one of your brethren should be destitute of cloths, and of his daily nourishment,

You that have purified your souls by the holy spirit, in obeying the gospel, which obliges you to an undisguised benevolence, let your hearts be mutually affected with the most disinterested ardour;

my dear children, let not our love be only in the language of our lips, but in the real effects of the heart.

May

on which the whole structure rises with symmetry into a temple, consecrated by the Lord:

which is without any mixture, and will make you thrive. Since you have tasted how good the Lord is,

on the contrary, may you increase in the favour, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! to him be glory both now and for ever. AMEN.

General references

a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

for as there are many members in one and the same body, but all the members have not the same office: