*Let them be assured, that it is the one only business of a _Christian gentleman_, to distinguish himself by good works, to be eminent in the most sublime virtues of the gospel, to bear with the ignorance and weakness of the vulgar, to be a friend and patron to all that dwell about him, to live in the utmost heights of wisdom and holiness, and shew through the whole course of his life a true religious greatness of mind. They must aspire after such a gentility, as they might have learnt from seeing the blessed Jesus, and shew no other spirit of a gentleman, but such as they might have got by living with the holy apostles. They must learn to love God with all their heart, with all their soul, and with all their strength, and their neighbour as themselves; and then they have all the greatness and distinction that they can have here, and are fit for eternal happiness in heaven. 16. Thus, in all orders and conditions, either of men or women, this is the one holiness, which is to be the _common_ life of all Christians. The _merchant_ is not to leave devotion to the clergyman, nor the _clergyman_ to leave humility to the _labourer_. Women of _fortune_ are not to leave it to the poor of their sex, _to be discreet_, _chaste_, _keepers at home_, _to adorn themselves in modest apparel_, _shame-facedness_, and _sobriety_; nor _poor women_ to leave it to the rich to attend at the worship of God. _Great men_ must be eminent for true _poverty of spirit_, and people of a _low and afflicted_ state must greatly rejoice in God. The man of _strength_ and _power_ is to forgive and pray for his enemies, and the _innocent sufferer_, that is chained in prison, must, with _Paul_ and _Silas_, at midnight sing praises unto God. For God is to be glorified, holiness is to be practised, and the spirit of religion is to be the common spirit of every Christian in every state and condition of life. *For the Son of God did not come from above, to add an external form of worship to the several ways of life that are in the world, and so to leave people to live as they did before, in such tempers and enjoyments as the fashion and spirit of the world approves: but as he came down from heaven, altogether divine and heavenly in his own nature; so it was to call mankind to a divine and heavenly life; to the highest change of their whole nature and temper; to be born again of the Holy Spirit; to walk in the wisdom, and light, and love of God, and to be like him to the utmost of their power; to a mortification of their passions; and to live in such wisdom, and holiness, as might fit them to enjoy God to all eternity. 17. Whatever therefore is _foolish_, _vain_, or _earthly_, or _sensual_ in the life of a Christian, is something that ought not to be there. But if any thing of this kind runs through the _course_ of our whole life, if we allow ourselves in things that are either vain, foolish, or sensual, we renounce our profession.