our souls, even that we might be “created anew after his image, in righteousness and true holinesss.” And, if our hearts be upright before God, this is the thing which we shall pant after, no less than after heaven itself. Sin will be our burthen and aversion; and a conformity to God will be regarded as the first object of our desire. Yea, to be “like him” will be contemplated by us as the perfection of our happiness, in “seeing him as he ist.”] ADDRESS— 1. Those who are yet in nature’s “ignorance”—
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