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may be enabled to perform our Magistery 

 in the right way. 



First, there should be the invocation 

 of God, flowing from the depth of a pure 

 and sincere heart, and a conscience which 

 should be free from all ambition, hypoc- 

 risy, and vice, as also from all cognate 

 faults, such as arrogance, boldness, 

 pride, luxury, worldly vanity, oppression 

 of the poor, and similar iniquities, which 

 should all be rooted up out of the heart 

 that when a man appears before the 

 Throne of Grace, to regain the health 

 of his body, he may come with a 

 conscience weeded of all tares, and be 

 changed into a pure temple of God, 

 cleansed of all that defiles. For "God 

 is not mocked," as worldly men fondly 

 suppose ; He is not mocked, I say, but 

 will be called upon with reverence and 

 fear, and acknowledged as the Creator 

 of all, with proper proofs of obedience. 

 For what has man that he does not owe 

 to God ? whether you look at his body, 

 or at the soul which works in his body. 

 Does he not nourish the latter with the 



