116 `ue{}ions and Anfweres io.Command. ?he Application. 93 Et vs welghnow wellwhat bath 6eenelaid I befeechyou, and rater fpare to fpeake, or feare to confefre, if not openly before the world; yet fecretly in our heartet unto the Lord ; what due regard of pared z coserfe compared with this law !hall make vs fee. Though we were able (whichyetneweranycon /de but fetus ChrJ) to fiande cleare .before theLord in all the former preceptes,either for deede or thought, yet are we neuer able to fay we arecleareof this. For confider, bath there oe,ier thought butgood crept into that heartolyoters within at no time Ace the day thatyouwere firflable to thinke a thought till this prefenthoure? weigh it well. And what thaughyou haste neater confentedtoit (yet woe woe unto vs fir confent) we fee neuerthe/effe by this law of God that we are begone. For here is condemned the very entrance and being of any vile conceit within vs for any time, though 'upon foine better wakening , we repelht, and abhorre it , and thrufl it away Without his all. And who to able to fay he neuer thought away in the leafi manner or meafure that might bee? Nay what confcience cried: not , if it bee a little rowled, that m very fearefuh manner andmea fore we haue all herein tranfgrefledand agended i Call out our houfes , and chambers ,whereinand under which we haue lined, aske thefielder, the gardens, the wallet, and hedges , where we haue often walked, fummon the fearer where we haue frt ;examine the pillowei whereon our heads could take no rift , what guilt again!b bur hearses in this behalfe they well can witneffe (leery one of them. Shall they net fpeake NI one by one, and then at with one content crie in the cares of the Lord wirbfhrikingfound that heures and dales, me neths andyeares,'haue we fpent in tq0ing andturning, in debating andfcanturigfilch conceits and thoughts; as we would net for alithat we enioy mere written in ourforeheads ? Fie fie, the pl eáferesthat ire haste felt in thisfollie, nay in this impiety hove ham. they tickled vswithin and made vs laugh to our felues, rubbeourhandes together, forget ourmeato,not hearewhat was (aide about vs, and filch like'? Howe haue we longed to l'e-ar an endeperaduenuere of fame bu iSnes,t hat we haue beone about,that we might eaten fully debate the matteryou knowe o f; and play with the conceit thereofto our fuller pleafare ? Can we excufe our felues be/oiled? doe I depaint out vnknouen difpo fitions vntò you? O I fay agitino, beftdegreater impieties the follies ,t hetoiet,thetriiles,theverybat ille fancies, that will and doe flealevponvs will weinoll we,eurn when we are befl oc upied , and wouldnot be [elicited in fuch fort, All which are breaches bier and greater o f thin lame afoot' God , which requireth es-all obedience and con - iuntli on of all the motions of our minde to his goodwilland lsk ng, And if we had newer fallen, we fhould neuer haue felt them. Therefore to fleet vp this matter , for one whome hknowe better then I know any ofyon, I confefe a guilt, acrd agrreuousguilt egainfl this precept ',fin, God,and1 ackenouledgedamnation due if I fhoulile be reitbledì but thi Lord I thanke,1 feare it nut ,nor that 1 haue not finned,butdecautemy Chrif bath not finned, and He is my iuflifi- t.cor.±. cation , fantiifcation and redemption , he is my lltength and my (tony rocke both àgainfl the curfe ,fìhis law and all the refl He is my defence and my Saurour ,my God and my might,in whome I doe trufl,my buckler; and the home of my health, and my refuge. And to him in thetrue fenfe ofmy weakeneffe ,and with the knees of my heart bowed Pala 9.r. dow'neto the dufl,1 fay for my cafe asDauid laid for hit,Turne away my heart O Lord, that it may newer feede vpon the-follies of vaine conceits, orgrieue the fteeete(pirite, that I fonit- time feek by vngo dlywandring from hie fugredmotions. Yea fee a watch before my foule moll gratioue father,andkeepe the dore of my firengthleffe heart, that 1 may leffe offend and morn obey in this behalfethan euer! haue done beretofore.And nowpaffe we vnto particulars men- tioned to. our hands by the Lord; himfelfeinthis his lame. O my telexed, home often haue we 'corseted our neighbourshoufe,rhat is his earth y pofeffson and inheritance,if not inwhole yet in parte ? How often bane we told our heads from the one erede ofthe p :Nome to the other, not able
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