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Rules
and
helps
to
chriftian
meekne.7i.
209
Then
a
fift
rule
is
this,
If
you
would keep
your £pirirs in
qui-
e;n::fie,make account
before hand,
that
you will
meet with
things
that (hall
croft your
wills,that's
a
good help
againfk pas=
fion,
and
to
quiet
our
hearts,
as
Anaxagoras faid,
When
he
heard
of
his fon
that
was
dead,
faith
he,
I
know
that
I
begat
him
mortal
:
So
when
you
hire
a
fervant at
drff,
make account
that
there
will be weaknefie
in
your
fervant before hand,
certainty
-there
will be many things
dote:
by
him
that
will diìpleafe,
me
--
When
you
marry
a
wife
you
ihouid before
hand make
account,
there
will
something fall out
between
us
that
will
dif-
pleat
one
another
--
And
to
when
you
take
a friend, before
hand
you
mutt
nuke
account,
it
is a
friend
That hash
both
his
ffailryes
and
infirmities
;
now
if we make account before hand
that while
we live in this
world
we are
not like to
have
our
wills
to
be tatislied
in every
thing, this will
be
a
meanes
to
quiet
our
hearts,
this
is
no
more then I made account of.
A
Souldier
that
goes
into
an
Army,when he
meets with hardship,
he
is
quieted
with this, its nothing but what I made
account,
of
before hand
:
Mariners when
they
are abroad and
meet
With
fforines, were
it
feemly
for
them
to
vex and
fret,
they
knew
that
it
Was
likely
they
(
hould meet
with
formes
;
So
when
ever
any
thing
falls
out
that-
croflcs you,
Remember this,
if
I'
had
wiidome before
hand
certainly
I
could thinke none
o:her
but
that I
lhould
have
divers things would crolfe nie:and now
God
puts
me
to
tryall to
fee
whether
I
will
beare there
croíhs
or no
that
Both
befall
me.
The
Sixth
Rule
is
this, Confider
thy
own
frailty.
O.
hers
there
are
that doe provoke
thee
and
litre
up
thine
anger;
but
thou mull
goe by
that rule,
we
feeke pardon, and we give
it
I
meete
With fuch and fuch
things
in
others,
and
it
may
be
within
a
while they
may
meete with
things
amiffe
in
me
:
they
o;=fend
me,
and
I am
like
to
offend
them
to,
and
that's'
a
mar
-
Veilous
helpe to quiet
the
hints
of
thole that are truly
graci-
ous
;
Therefore
in the 6 of
Galathi,anc,
marke
the argument
of the
;
Brethren
if
a
man
be ovwrtaken
with
s
fault,ye
which
arefpirituall
reftore
fuch
a
one
in
the
fp_rit
of
meek,
re
e,
canjidering thy felfe left thou
a!fo
be
tempted, and
then
it
E
e
follows