A Sermon Preached at the Quakers Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, | Page 6

it: But if thou comest to know a being
crucified with Christ, thou shalt reign with him, and be raised up to
eternal glory with him. Unless thou knowest a dying to the world, and a
being crucified with Christ, thou canst not have a well grounded hope
of everlasting happiness.
Therefore now, friends, examine yourselves about your title to heaven.
It is the wisdom and practice of the world, to examine their titles and
settlements, and to see, they be sure, and firm, and stable beforehand:
So we should make sure for heaven and eternal glory, and of "an house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens," before this earthly
tabernacle be dissolved; then for us to live will be Christ, and to die
will be eternal gain. Blessed are they that bear record of the Word of
God, and of the testimony of Jesus, that bear his name, and testify and
join with him against the spirit of the world, and the prince of the
power of the air. It is within that thou must join with Christ's
appearance, that so thou mayest be christianized, and thy mind made
truly christian: Thou must be purified in thy spirit, and baptized with
the Holy Ghost, and with fire, and know the powerful operation of the
Lord: They that have not experience of the new birth, they cannot enter
into the kingdom of God.
O my friends, set before you the example of Christ, who was holy,
harmless, and undefiled; his life was glorious in holiness: And as it
becomes you, so it highly concerns you, to be holy in all manner of
conversation. For if you imitate not the life of Christ, you cannot be
saved by his death: He came into the world, to redeem you from all
iniquity, and to save you from sin and hell; Labour to answer the

dignity of your high and holy calling, with a conversation becoming the
gospel of Christ: For you are called to glory and virtue. Whatsoever
troubles, temptations and tribulations may attend you in your
pilgrimage here below, if you be faithful and sincere, you will have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. In all your labours and
travels on this earth, you may look up with joy for you have a serene
heaven over your heads; let Christ be precious to you; open the door of
your hearts to him, who is the King of glory: He is oppressed in the
hearts of the unclean, but he is exalted and lifted up in the hearts of the
faithful: Blessed are they that set him upon his throne in their hearts! O
learn of Christ to be meek and lowly: Your humility will exalt Him,
and will also exalt you at the last: "Be faithful to the death and you
shall receive a crown of life:" Those that have eternal life in their eye,
and depend upon Christ alone for salvation, they have laid a sure
foundation. All other foundations will come to nothing; they are
founded in time, and in time they will come to moulder away: But that
city that God is the builder and maker of, that Abraham had in his eye,
will never decay, nor moulder away: Let us have this always in our eye,
that nothing may intercept our view. "We have here (saith the Apostle)
no continuing city; we seek one that is to come." In this world we are as
sheep among wolves: "Fear not, little flock, (saith our Saviour,) it is
your Father's good pleasure to give you a kingdom." If we be the sheep
of Christ, we shall follow him: "For his sheep follow him, and know his
voice, and a stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him,
for they know not the voice of a stranger." "My sheep (saith Christ)
hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto
them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck
them out of my hands." Here is encouragement for us to labour
abundantly in the work of the Lord; "for our labour shall not be in vain
in the Lord." Let us, with Moses, "choose rather to suffer affliction with
the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;" and
"esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of
Egypt; and have respect to the recompense of reward."
Friends, I beseech you, in the fear of God, "look up unto Jesus, the
GREAT MEDIATOR of the new covenant, the author and finisher of
your faith; that by patient continuance in well doing, you may seek for

glory, honour, immortality, and eternal life:" Which you shall obtain, if
you persevere to