t j 8o A Box of precious Ointment: Or, . A Lark iota tin. i per s a great deal of grace makes but a very little them. A r.1.,d1k,,11:: little water in a long narrow moutli'd ,slafs leer., s to be a mole gli);ious i great deal, when ten times, yea twenty times as much in a ihe, than a very 21) great RinpFon a large Cifiern is hardly difcerna5le ; the application is eafie. k-prot.h.wd.; the 1 A little Sugar will ferve well enough for fwe,ze Wines, but much more is requitite to fweeten that W:ne that is filar vai v. and harfh.. A little grace will make a very glorious the I in fuch Men and women whole very natural tempers are fweet, foft, .gentle, meek, affable, courteous ; when a great deal of Grace is hardly difcernaSle in thofe men and women whole very natural tempers are &tors, crooked, cholerick, fierce, pallionate, ruff and unhewen. As a good Man laid of an eminent light now in Heaven, That he. hd Grace enwh fo* r ten men, but fcurce enough fcr hiMfelf, his natural temper. was fo bad, which he would hirnfelf -often lament and bewail,. faying to his friends, That he had fuch a crop crooked .nature, that if God had notgiven.him grace none godd have been able to have lived one day pietlyNith him.. A fincere .Chriflia.n may have more roughnefs of nature, and more fiurdinefs of pal- fions than is in many a moral man ; he that hatlymore Chri- fiianity, may have lets Morality, as there is more perfe&ion of animal and fenfitive faculties in fome bruits than in fome -men. Tis an old experienced truth, that thofe fins are with the greatefl pains., labour, travel and ddficulty fiabdued and mortified, which our natural tempers, complexions cud Conaitutions do motl-flrongly incline and difpbfe us to, and were but thofe hills fubdued and brought under, it would be no difficult thing to bring all other fins to an under ; when Goliab was chin, the Philiftims fled ; when a General in an - I sanxilx,52., Army falls, the common Souldiers arequickly,,routed.. So tis here, get but the fins'Of yOur:natural ternpers,complexi- ons and conaitutions under your feet, and you will quickly ride iii a holy triumph over the refl. When jullice is effe Ctually done upon your contlitution fins . other fins Will not tt, saiya..ztol+ult. be long lived, thrufl but a dart through the heart of 412folom, and a COMpleat conqueft will follow. Now before I dole .up this particular, let me advifeyou frequently to confider, that you can never make a true, a right, a ferious judgMent. Of
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