The North Star of True Godliness

tice, and joy, not to work out your tem-
poral advantage from that profession, which
otherwise strongly leads to it; but to enrich
yourselves with the spiritual gifts, and
therein daily to increase; as you
also have been taught, the dignity
of Christ original: "Christi", the honor of your God, the edifi-
cation of his people, and a good exam-
ple to leave behind for all those, who
in similar service might come
to be; to value [these] more, than all the
temporal usefulness of sin, how great
it also might be, how eas-
ily it might also present it-
self. In this, the merciful God wants
to strengthen you more and more, and you yet
long in good health preserve,
for the good of the Land Refers to the Dutch Republic or specifically the province of Zeeland., and his ho-
ly Church Ghemeynte While literally meaning "community," in this 17th-century context it refers specifically to the Dutch Reformed Church.; so that also through
your example, just as through the exam-
ple of yet other pious Lords,
and godly people more (who there
still, through God’s grace, many among