And let ours also; either those of our order, ministers of the gospel, or those that are Christians. Learn to maintain good works; in the Greek it is, to excel, or to be in the front, or to show forth, or maintain, and each sense hath its patrons of note. For necessary uses; for the necessary uses of the church, or of others, or for their own necessary uses. I take their sense who would expound the phrase, maintain good works, by learning some honest trade, to be foreign to the true sense of the phrase.

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