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FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD.
LET us diligently strive to walk with God; and let our souls be so influenced and trained, that we may both rightly apprehend him, and always acknowledge his presence; not without holy fear, and an earnest desire of the divine approbation. Let us appropriate him to ourselves by a holy faith; let us hold converse with him daily; let us consult him in all our difficulties, and make earnest application to him in all our necessities; let us securely rely on his providence; let us gratefully recollect all his mercies; let us exercise ourselves in the pious practice of a holy obedience, as well with respect to those holy solemnities which have a more immediate relation to his worship, as with respect to the duties incumbent on us in our particular callings; carefully avoiding whatever may in any measure displease him; and immediately endeavouring, by a speedy repentance, to recover his favour, which, by our manifold sins, we had worthily deserved to lose. Let us sincerely refer ourselves, and all our actions, to his glory; let us surrender up ourselves