1Jireff.ions {~r youn.g ,Sf!~dmts. natttre and (he c}lrt of it, tha; yoq. that feel ir. Therefore as a wife ma~ w~en h~ is .(icjt ~ill trull himfelf, ~nder God, ro rhe dir,ction of hisJ'hNficion and the help of hiS, fnends abAAt hill', and not lye wrangliQg again{! th~ir,help and,cm\nfel, and wilfully r_efufe it, be'~~t): they advtfe him con– trary to his fee/ill~ ; fo will you do, if you ~J;C wife ; Trufi your felf wnh to~e fit dzre{ior ; ancl defpifc nor his judgement either about yo;,r Jfp.te~ or a~ou_t, your dmy. You thmk yo~.are loft a~d there is QO /;opt: Hea:r wh.u he faith th;t.! is qQW fitter !0 wdg,. Set t:Ot your weak :vi! !00 wil– fully againfi him. Do you think he is fo fooh01 as to mtOake? fhould not humthty make .you r,arhcr think tO of.. your fdf ? Be advifed by him ?bout the matter of your thoughu, the mapnq ancl / .... length of your fecw du.ties, and all your £crqples tha,t you need advife ,in. Will you alf\'i!'r me this one quefiion>Do ynu f<ttow a11J bp.dy that >! wifer than yo~r [elf l ~qd fitter to ;udge qf your conditimt and advife )'Ou l lf you fay} No, how proud ate you, of fuch ~ q~~ed ~tt? Jf fgq f.ty, Ye.; Then beliwt and trujl thir imfon, ana refolve to fo)IOI)' h.is I)iw'l;Lon, And L 'fO.Uld ask you : were you not once of another ju..dgeiTICI\t concer:n~ng. your felf ? If fo, thfq were you not as found and able to judge, and liker to be·in the right t~a_p N~U ar,e now ? . 9· 2 5 DHcct.. 2 r. My lafi advife is, to look out forthe cure of yo.ur . ~ife~fe, and commit your [iirtll. 21> fclf to the care of your Phyficion, and obey him: And do not as lJIOfi mel~n,holy , ~rfon,s do, that will not believe that Phyfick will do them good ; but that it is only their foul that is al!iicred: 'For ir is the fpiri;.r, inuginat'ion, ·and paf!iom, that are difeafe.d, and fo . the fou) i~... li~c _atJ; ~ye that looketh through a coloured glafs, and thinks all things are of the fame colour as the glafs is. I have fecn abundance cured by Phyfick: and till th~ body be cured, the mind will hardly ever be cured, bur thedeareil Reafons will·~e a-ll-in vain. · ~~· ,~ ..,. .-..::r .. ; Tit. 6. 'DireC1:ionr for young Swdmti, for tiJ~ mojl profitable ordering· of )hei(, flrulying TI,oughts. , ·· '. • I 9. r. DireCl:. r. LE 't it be your ftr{l: andmcj! JtrioiH fJudy (o mal<ff [l'rf, thqt Jll!" are Regmeratt, Direll. t\' and[a11l/ijitd by the Holy.Gbojt,,and ju{lijird,by foilb i,n Chrijl, and Lwe Gpd ~hove aU, M )'OUt recorzciled Father, and [o have right to the- Heavenly inh,trit~tnct. ~· 2· For I· You are neareft to your {elvu, and your tVtrlajfing happimfi i,; '\)'«;mr neareft an~ your highefi interdl : what will it protir you to k._1U1w all the warld, and tp Jofe y9ur q'i"n fo".ls? To,k..•ow as much as Devifr, and bc.for ever miferable with Devil!? · 9· 3· 2· It is a mqll doleful employment to be all d.ay at work.. i11 1 S~t0111 Cbai11s •! '< T'o fit fiudying God and the HA!y Scripture.r, while you are in thc.powcr of the l).(v!l, and have hearts that are at enmity to the Holincfs of that God and that Scripture whkh you are fludying. It is a moll: prepofterous.and incongruous courfe of fiudy, if you firfl ftudy. not yout own deliverance. And if you knew your cafe, and faw your chains, your trembling wolllp diOurb you( Opdics. 9· 4· 3· Till you are muwed you fiudy in the dark._; and wirhoutthat internal fight and {fn[e, Al!.16. rS• .. by which the lift.and{pirit and ~rml of all that you fiudy rnufi be known. All that the Scripture Bph. 1• J8, 19• fa~th of the darlt,_nefl of a fhte of fin, and 'of the illumh!ation of t_he fPirit, and _o~ the marveUom ligbt ~~~t~.:~~. ot regenerate fouls, and of the natural mam not receivmg the thmgs of the jjmt, and of ~he carn 11 1Rom. s. 7 . mind that is enmity_ agai_nft God, and ir not {ttbjell to bis Law, nor can be; all thc(e a~d:.fuch other ICor.z..I.J,,rp· paffagcs are not in!1gniticant, but mofi confiderable truths from the fpi~;it of truth. Yourp~ye only that Light that wrll fhew you the fheU, and the dead /mer, but not the fotd, and quickening [e11[e, of any practical holy truth. As the eye knoweth meat which we never tajfed, or as a mcer Grammarian, or Logician readeth a Law book.. or Pbyfick.. bool;, ( who gather nothieg out of them that wifl tave a mans ejlate or life) fo w1ll yrmprofecute all your fiudies. 9· 5· 4· You are like to have but ill fuccefs in your fiudies, when the D.evil H ,)'91tr Mafler, who hatcrh both you, and the holy things which you are fludying. He will blind you, and pervert you, and polfcfs your minds with falfc conceits, and put diverting fenfual thoughts into you, and will keep you·r own fouls from being ever the better for it all. · 9.6. 5· You ·will want the true end of all right jludirs; and [et up wrong ends: and the;efore what– ever be the. matterof your fludies, you are fiill out of yoe.r way, and know nothing rightly) becaufe you know 1t not as a Mean! to the true end (But of this anon). 9· 7· Direct. 2· When you have firjl laid thu foundatiolt, and have the true Principlc and End of Direl/. 2 ; all rigbt Studi:s, b~ Jure tbat you inun~ tbU En~ in aU, ( tV£11 the EvcrlaftiHg Sight and Leveof God, and theJromotmg huGlor}, andpleajing hu holy w1U) : And that you 1ttver meddle with any jhtdiu }fpcratt from thi.r end, bHt Ma mea1u theretc, and ar IZnimated thereby. ~· 8. If every llep in YOUJ journey is but lofs of time and labour, which is not directed to your journeys end ; and if all that you have to mind or do in the world, be only about your End or rhe Means; and all creatures and aaions can have noother moral Goodne[s, than tQ be tbe means to G 9 d your ultimate end; then you may eafily fee, that when ever you leaveout God 4f the End of any Qf your fiudies, your are but finning, or doting : for in thofe Studies there can be no Mor•l G..J, T t though
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