\ SJ 1------------------------------~--- 4ndp~rpetutt!l quide. falvation, we muil: bevery carefull and watchfull, that wee give not way, paffage,and entertai1.1ment towicked thoughts, and the firft fin full motions: The c!~greq · ia fame. I Amotion to fin'ne. 2. iheWill inti• for in this manner,a man proceedes to the height of finne, and-a reprobate fenfe. There firfl: ari– feth in his Heart an idle and wandering thought of fome unlawfull thing; as of Luft, Covetouf– neffc, Pride, Malice, prophaning the Sabbath, Cozening, and circumventing his Brother 5 and fuch like. Secondly, it begins to allure,entice, anal conferre with the Will. Thirdly, the·Will 3 doth, as it were, take it by the' hand, and is tick- Dcl~ht. ' led,pleafed~and delio-htedwith it.·Then foilowes · 4 ccd. t> fc ' Coafcnt.' Confent : Confent fets the affeC't·ions on oot, 1 and plots the ~ccomplilhment and pra&ice of · PratUcc~ it; and finne practifedwith pleafure, brings Cu6 ' fiome. Cufiome {harpens a mans wit,afld makes Pleafure. him Iooke about, how to excufc it : From excucunoZe. fing tinne, bee growes to defend it : Defence of · s finne, makes him obfiinate,and refolved toconti– nue in it: Obfiinatenetfe'begets boafting,and glo– rying in it. An~ ifaman once become impudent, and take a pride in ftnning,there prefently follows a brazen Brow; and whoriili fore-head, an yron fi– ·new in the necke,a heart as hard as the netherMil– ftone,a feared Confcien~e,anda reprobate fenfe. Thefe are the fi:eps,by whichaman rifeth into the Seat of the 'fcornefull: And_upon the top of thefe ftayres,Sinne fits in the greateft triumph and fo- · veraignric; and banifheth out of a 'mans .heart, all feare of God, love to his Mioiil:ers, and zeale unto his Wor~t. . · · (e 3) / A, , , Excufi11g. 9 Defending. 10 Continuance. li ' Boafling. 12. A reprobate re.afe. .
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