comfortable walking withGod. bread, tillrhonretorne unto the ground. 1. But ever goeabout the affaires ofthy Calling with a heavenly mind, feafoned, and fan6ified with habituallprayer, ejaculatory elevations, willingneffe,if God fo pleafe,to he diffolved, and to bee with Chrift ; pregnantwith heavenlymatter and meditation,pickt out of thepaffages of thyprefentbufineffe. For inftance ; let theHusbandman inSeed-time, collea this facred Soliloquie and heavenlythought; If I now takenot the feafon, I (hall have no harveft, but lfarve in winter. Soproportionably; if I gather not Grace in this Sun-thine of the Gofpe!, and day of my vifitation, I (hall find nothing but horror uponmy bed of death, and borne in hell for ever hereafter, &c. 2. In all thecivili bufineffes of thy perfonall Calling, let thy eyeand aime beupon Gods glory, asthe primeand principali endof all thy a&ions, i Cora0.31. and in them feeke and ferve that glorious end of Gods honour, not fo much in pro- curing thine owne, as thegoodofChurch, Common- wealth, Neighbours and family,&c. 3. By earthly imployments,do not becomean earth-worme. Inufing theworld, grow not a worldling, and fuch an one as findes more fweetnefhe and pleafure in worldlydealings,and thecomming inofthy Pro- fits, then in thy heavenly trafficke and treafures through the pral}ice and tradeof Chriflianity. III. In thy folitary feafons: i . Single outfornefpeciall profitablechoyfe matter to meditateonall the while,; there- by both to prevent the -ordidary intrufion of many vaine, foolith, noyfome thoughts, impertinent wandrings,and wo- . full trifling out thyprecious time ; and alto tokeepe thy fpi- rits,, and the powers of thy foule aworke, left as milífones wanting grill, grate and grinde one another, theywafte themfelves in a fruitlefle barren melancholy. When canff thou bee 'alone, and not have juif caufe, either to buffe thy mind about fome lawfull affaires ofthy Calling : or wreftle with fomecorruption, which troubles the peace of thy con- fcieuce, or breake out in thepraifes of God, or fome other holy paflage of heavenly meditation, whereof there is fo great varietie and itore.a a. Watch and withstand, with all F 4 godly
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