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Excerpt from A Charge Deliver'd to the Clergy: At the Primary Visitation of the Diocese of Sarum, in the Year, 1726
Our 'dignitj is our nearer Relation to Chrifi And this nearer Relation is contrae'ted by means of that parti culat Fanc'iion which We have, under his Eye, and accord ing to his Will, deliberately and ferioufly undertaken; the Office of helping forward and promoting, in the \vorld, the great End which He propofed in coming down from Hea ven, and living and dying for Mankind. Now, all Relations to chri/z, are either our Honour, or Reproach; our great Glory, or our great Shame; our higher Reward, or our deeper Condemnation; according as We our (elves behave our felves in them. A wicked Chrifiian has indeed a wor thy Name, viz, that of a Chrijlian: But He himfelf has no Dignity by taking upon Him that Name, whilit He con tinues wicked. He re?ee'ts Shame upon the befi Name in the World; and the Name He has alfumed rc?cfts Shame and lgnominy upon Him, whilf't He {hcws himfelf utterly un worthy of it. So it is, and lo it mufi be, on} Brethren.
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