248 DireEtions forgetting and keeping dearer the victory cofteth you, the fweeter will be the Cue and review. 2. The fame counfel I give you alto in your riling from tin. It is the fad conditionofthole that yield to a "remptatian3 and once put their foot within the doors ofSatan, that they enfnare themfelves fo, that they tuft undergo thrice as great difficulties todraw back, as they needed to have done before-hand for preventionand forbearance, Sin unhappily engageth the fintner to go on ; and one fin doth makeanother Teemneceiîary. O how hard a thing is it for him that wronged another by healing, dceit, over- reaching in bargainin , or the like,to confers his fault. & ask him forgiveness, and to the utmolt of his ability to make reftittitionlWhat abundanceof difficulties will be in the way ? lt will likely colt him the lofs of his Cre- dit, betides the breach in his eflate, and perhaps lay him open to the rage ofhim that he bath wronged. Rather he will be drawn to cover his fin with a Lye,or at leaít by Excufes. And fo it is in manyother fins. Now in any of thefe Cafes, when men indulge the fleib, and cannot find in their hearts to take that lofs or flume to themfelves,which a through-Repen- tance loth require, they do but feed the troubles oftheir foul, and hide their wounds and fores , and not cafe .them. Ufually fuch perlonsgo on in a galled unpeaceabkecondition, and reach not to folid Com- fort : (I (peak only of thole to whom fuch Confer- lion or Reflitution is a duty. ) And I cannot wonder at it: For they have great caufe to queltion the truth ofthat Repentance, and confequently the foundnefs ofthat heart, which will not bring them to a felt-de- nying duty nor to Cods w,ay of rifing from their fin. It
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