# Address To The Worldly-Minded.

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Come now, ye earthly-minded and ungodly, and
learn here to become heavenly and godly-minded;
ye impenitent, learn here to repent, and believe in
Jesus Christ. Hither must come also all the self-willed,
who, from a prejudiced opinion of their own
do not consider the external commandments and ordinances
of Christ as necessary, saying that there is
not more required than repentance and faith, or a
so-called irreproachable civil life. These shall learn
here that the external commandments of Christ must
be united with the internal, that is, the signs with
the things signified; or, to express it clearly: one
must be baptized on his faith and repentance; must
keep the Lord’s Supper in remembrance of him, etc.;
for herein the holy martyrs were to them an example.[14](/en/stories/mm-footnotes/#Footnote_14)

Here the passionate must learn patience and meekness
from the most patient and meek, who endured
without murmuring the greatest reproach and ignominy,
yea, even death. Here the unmannered
are taught modesty; the proud, humility; the discontented,
contentment; the avaricious, benevolence;
the insatiably rich, voluntary poverty; those who
live after their lusts, the forsaking of all carnal desires;
the irreligious, piety; and the wavering and inconstant,
steadfastness unto the end in all these
things.

All this can be learned here, not so much by
words as by deeds, from those who not only commenced
the above virtues, but continued in them
unto the end, yea, confirmed them through their
death, and sealed them with their blood.



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