CqePoo? fflano fatulip Zook. I s 3 P. It is no wonder if he talk foolifhly, who talketh .igainft the God of wifdom, and his holy word, and ágainft the intereft, health and happinefs of his own foul : He that can live fo far below reafon, as to fell his Salvation for the fhort and fwinifh pleafures of fin, may tar ,with as little reafon as he liveth. S. But how could I be any Jonger rin doubt, when youconfirainedhim in the Conclufaon toyieldyou all the caufe ? P. Andwhat courfe did you refolve upon and take ? S. AlasSir, my own naughty heart did hinder me, much morethan his "oblations did. I went home Con- vinced that your words were true, and that I muff be- come a (b) newCreature or be undone. And! perufed the Baptifmal Covenant whichyou wrote down, and the Articles of the Creed, the Lords Prayer and the Com- mandments: Iiudied the meaning of them, with that expofition which you gave me : My ignorance fo darl.,enedmy mind, that all feemed orange and new to me, though 1 ufed to rote them over in the Church from day to day. And being very unsl.ilful in filch matters myfelf, Iwent oft to my Neighbour Eufebius, asyou advifedm2, and I thank, him he gladly helped me to underhand the words and things which were toohard for me. But when I had done all this , my worldly bufanefs tool., up my thoughts fo, and the cares of my family were fo much at my heart, and my old .Companions fo often tempted me, and my AP h was fo lath to letgo all myfînful pleafures, and the matters of Religion werefo flrange to me, that I delayedmy Re- folutian, and continued frill purpofrng that I would (b) Cor.$. ils fhortly
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