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Rules
and
helps to
Chr
ftian
meek
efe.
ill
noon,
to
refolve
that
from this time
till
noon, whatever
;befalls
me
I
will
manifeft
no paffion,
but
I
will
rather
take
it
into
confederation
after
noon, or the next
day
then
now,
one
Would think
this
were
not
impo_fible,for
a
man
though
of
a
very
batty
fpirit,
yet
to
be
refolved
for one day
that
what ever
falls
out to
beare with
it
that
day.,:
---
But
you will
f,
;y,this
wil not
mortifie
that corruption
of
1lfiotz
.
But though
it
will
not
mortifie
it,
yet
you
cannot imagine whatpo4ver `there
will
;be in
keeping
down
your
paflïon
but
for
à
while
:
As
fire,
we
know, if is be but fmothered,
it
may
be put out that
way
;
and
that
man
or woman
that
can
but
overcome themfelves
for
one
day,
will find
fuch
fweetnefs
that
day,
that
they will begin to
think with themfelves,
why may
not I covenant for
to morrow
too,and then
they will
find fo much fweetnefs for
that day,they
will
think
they
may
refolve for the
next
day.
O
if
you
could
but'overcome
your felves for
a
day,
you
finde
fo much
g
ood
,
as
it
would exceedingly helpe you
againft
another
But third'y,
This
_covenanting
'will
not
be fuilicient excef.t
-there
be
humiliation for
that
thats
pall
:
Thofe
that
onely
re-
folve
to fet
upon
a
duty,
and are
not
humbled for
the
want
of
the
duty before,
they are like
to
doe
little
good by
their
refò-
lutions,
you
mull therefore
if
you
would overcome your felves,
and
fet
upon
any
thing
that God
requires
of
you, you mull
be
humbled
for
that that's
paft.Phyfitians
ufe
to
purge
out
choller
by bitter
things, and thofe
that
would
tame
wild creatures
it
its
by
keeping
them
in
the
dark
:
So
humiliation for
the
dtftern-
pers
of
palfion
is a
fpecial
meaner
to
purge
out
pallor),
and
to
tame
and
quiet the
fpirits
of
men and women
:
many of
you
that
have
been
overcome in froward fitts
and
you
have feen the
inconveniency
of them,
and
it
may
be after
you have thought;
ô
this
-is
ill,and you hope you fhall do
fo
nó more,but
although
you think
you
will
do
fo no
more, yetexcept
you
be
humbled
for
that
you have
done
you
will
fall
to
it
again,and
fo
it's
a rule
in
all
other
things,
that
thofe
who
doe
refolve
to'amend
in
any
particular,
if
they
be not
humbled for
that that's
pall, they
will
fall
to their
fin agairae;
it's
a very
remarkable example that
we
have