sao Avoid both extreams. DIRECT. XLVII. When everyouare avoiding any errour orfin, forget not that there is a contrary extrearn tobe avoided , of which you are indan- ger awell a of that which you are oppo- fing. i;MHe minds ofmoll men are fo narrow , that they cannot look many wayes at once. If they be intent on-one thing, they forget another, But it is a narrowbridge betwixt dangerous gulfs, which Chriftian faith and obedience mutt' pals o- ver Andhe that looketh on the one fide, with the greaten fear and caution , is undone, if he look not altoon the other, The common way of avoiding any errour or 'rice, is to rlin into the contrary. And on thofe terms fatan himfelf will be Orthodox, and a re- former, and an enemy to vice. I gave you force infiances evennow. He is a rare perfon, that is fo wife and happy , as to flye from every errour and fin, with an impartial awakened fear of the contrary. And thence it is that the noßi judici- Drys cld experienced Chrifiians are ufually in con- troverfies for a middle way; and in the croud of contentious feats , they commonly are the re- concilers Not only becaufe they are more calm and moderate, and feaceabie than others; but efpecially becaufe they have feen the errour on both xtre;ms , when others fee only the errour çn ope fide. Only in our inclinatiom to our ulti- m4t4
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