·' til f!ltrint putr~falla, mufr be frill in repairing: Thefe bodies of death we PNtmi~ fulttrah~mu-s,e! beare about us are ·naturally liable to fo manv batte-- {uppommu&n()vtf, e:J'a • db h·' b h rr_ f . . · , 111tin11a eura mmqua nes,a~ reac es y t ~ auaults o ongtnall finne,an~d Jeftniml/4. Chryf. Ad other unplacable enemieS' to our foules, that there IS · pop.Antioch.Hom.8o extreme need of perpetuall watch a9d Ward~ repenting and repairing, lefi the New71nan bee too much opprefr, and too often furprized by the many,and cunning encounters of the old eAdam. When thou art in company,folitary,bufied about thy particular Calling, th~re may fuddenly arife in thine heart, fome greedy wiili, fome groffe conceit; fome vaine, uncleane; ambitious, revengefull thought; ejaculate prefently a penitent figh, lutd fervent pray,er for p~rdon of it in the Paffion of Chrift. In thy family, perhaps amongfl: thy Children and' fervants, by reafon of fome croffe accident, thou mayfi breake out into fume advifed paffionate (oeech; and difgrace thy fclfe and Profeffion, by over-haJl:y. intemperate heate, not without fome danger of hurting and hardening thofe about · thee thereby : Get thee prefently upon it into thy · Clofet, or fome place for that purpofe; Throw thy felfe downe with a truly grieved, and humbled SouJe before the throne of grace, and rife not untill thou bee reconciled unt.o thy God. If at any time, which God forbid, Thou bee over-taken with fame more · publikefcandalous finn~,or dangerouny haunted with fome enormous kcret lufl:; appoint for thy fclfe a r• folemne Day of Humiliation ; and then cry unto the Lord /i~ a ;:voman in travai!e; and give him no refl:, untill Hee rewrne unto The~ with the wonted favour and calmeDdf;: of His pleafed countenance. lf Chrifrians would confl:antly take to heart, and ·ply this bieffcd buGne{fe of immediately rifing by repentance, after every rdap!Z: a;1d fall into fin, they fhould finde a fi1rtber Paradife and plea1!.1re in the wayes of God, then they ever yet tafied. This courfe contin.ued with prd~nt feeling, and after-watchfulnelfe, · would
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