Rn0 fttntfip 15od. 247 acquainting me with them before-hand that I may be prepared or may prevent them, than (as many do) to Alta Icome toyou in a Temptation for refolutiota to helpme out : For I know it is eafier and cheaperto pre.. vent the kindlingofthis fire, than to quench it : And fometimes itfalls amongRubble or Gunpowder and hash done its workbefore thefinner cometh to a Minifier for help. Theyareftrange Phyfitians who choofe rather to cure difeafes at the height, than to teach men how to prevent them.) But I would yet intreat you to give me in writingfumediftin& Inftruce}ions for a Holy life. Myreafons are i. Iam afraid I Pall not well fit together what you gave mein Conference, nor well re- member it, and thereforewould have it orderly before ray eyes. 2. I would have fomewhat to 4110 my Family with: And therefore defireyou to write it me fo, as Imay oft read it to them. P. What is it particularly that you would have ? S. I. I would have youdiftinEtly to write me- down; the true Reafons and means of Converfion and a holy life : For I know that it is the fame Reafons which made me a Chriftian, which muff keep me one. And therefore I would oft review them, as if I had never been Converted : For ifIforget what movedandtnrned myheart to God by Chrift, I Jhall be ready to lofe the effea and to turn back, And I would read the fame Reafons often tomy Family. II. Iwould defiîeyou tofet before me all theduties of a Chriftian life, that I mayfee them together, and have thefarm of them imprinted on my mind, and know how to conjoyn theminmy praiiice. And this fummary alJv I would read aften to rry Family. R4 P. Yam
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