Bythe Crofsof Chrift. how much of his work is there done ? As ever you would be Crucified to the world then, fer a watch upon your thoughts,and keep a daily and hourly account of them-, and fee that theybe alway under the Government offaith and reafon. Your thoughts fhould be kept chaff as the entrance into yourhearts, and notbe as common harlots entertainingevery comer. If you feel your thoughts fleppingout uponLuft or Malice, look after them be- time,andcall them in, and check them fharply , and lay a charge on them hereafter to be more pure. if you find that they are runningwith Geheza after the prize, and are making out after the provi ions for the fleas, recall them and correct them, and bewail tuis evil before the Lord, and let your watch be !trifler for the time to come. Believe it, your hearts will be filch as are your thoughts. The flies that lye upon rotes, or dung, or carrion, and the worms that are bred in them will be of the nature of that corruption themfelves. If you would have your hearts clean and humble ,, and ,heavenly , let your Thoughts be clean, and, humble; and heavenly. If youwill let your Thoughts run on the objeâs of Lull., youwill beLuflful : And if you will Thinkon the enticements of Pride , you will be Proud : And if youwill let out your thoughts on the Profits of the world no wonder if it flea! away your hearts, faith the Lord to the covetousand un- merciful, Dent. 15. 7, 8, g. If there beamong Ion a poor Haan of one of thy Brethrenwithin any of thy gates thou (halt no hardeos thy heart, nor ¡hut thy handfrom thy poor Brother , but thou ,ylo' alt open thy handwide unto him, and /halt [well lend him fuffccientfoss his neeol in that which he wanteth. BeWare that there be not a. thought in thy wickedheart, faying, Thefeventhyear the year of releafe it at hand, andthy eye beevil againft thy poor Brother, and thosegivefl him nought; andhe cry unto the Lord againfl thee, and it be fanunto thee, Thou Jhalt forely give him, and thy heart ¡hall not be grieved, when thougivefftohim : becaufe that for this thing the Lord thy God !ball blefs thee in all thy works,_and in all that thouputte thine bandunto. For the poor(hall never ceafe out of the Land : therefore Icommand theelaying Thou ¡hale open thy handwide unto thy brother,to thy poor,and to thyneedy in the Land. _I Betides the maindrift of the Text, mark how we are command- ed to beware that a Thought of unmercifulnefs enter not into our hearts. And when Chrift doth fo vehemently diff,vade his Z . 3 followers
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