servants of righteousness;”[103] “that our old man is crucified,” that “we should walk in newness of life.”[104] Again: “If ye be risen with Christ,” as his members indeed are, “seek those things which are above,” and conduct yourselves as “pilgrims on the earth;” that you may aspire towards heaven, where your treasure is.[105] That “the grace of God hath appeared, teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour.”[106] Wherefore “God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by Christ.”[107] That we are the “temples of the Holy Ghost,” which it is unlawful to profane;[108] that we are not _darkness_, “but light in the Lord,” whom it becomes to “walk as children of the light;”[109] that “God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness; for this is the will of God, even our sanctification, that we should abstain from fornication;”[110] that our calling is a holy one, which should be followed by a correspondent purity of life;[111] that we are “made free from sin,” that we might “become servants of righteousness.”[112] Can we be incited to charity by any stronger argument than that of John, “If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another?” “in this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil;”[113] hereby the children of light, by their abiding in love, are distinguished from the children of darkness; or that of Paul, That if we be united to Christ, we are members of one body, and ought to afford each other mutual assistance?[114] Or can we be more powerfully excited to holiness, than when we are informed by John, that “every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as God is pure?”[115] Or when Paul says, “Having therefore these promises, (relative to our adoption,) let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit?”[116] or than when we hear Christ proposing himself as our example, that we should follow his steps?[117]