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Rules
and
helps
to
Chriftian mee.nefe.
what
God
calls you
too,
And
there youwill
have
the
blefi
ng
6f
God;
but when men will
have many Irons
in
the fire,
trìore
then
God
calls them
to,
no
marvaile though
their
fingers- be
-burnt,
we
find
that
thofe men
that
are
very
bufe
are
very fro
-
ward,
but
now
when
you
know
that
your
bufinefe
is
but
that
that
(god
calls you
to,
and you
doe it
in Obedience
to
God,you
,,may
expect .the
blefing
of
God
ui:on you
to quiet
you, but
.orherwife
there
wilibe
many
temptations
in
it.
Twelfthly, Further,
Take
heed
of
too
much curiofity
A
:
man that
is
in
a
family,
if
he
will be
prying into
every
thing
in
the
family,he
mull
have his eyes
in
every room,and
take
notice
of
every
pafloge
in
the
family
,if
fo,
a
thoufand
to
one
but
there
will
many
things fall out
that
will
diflurb
his
paffion,.
you
mull
not take
notice
of every
little
fault in
a
fervant,no:
°every
Einall
offence
in wife or
children,
but
you
mutt
fee
and
not fee,
if
you
will
be
of
meek
41irits.
fooliíil nice curiofity
in
men
in
prying into every thing
in
a
family, and
thole
,hing=
it
may
be
that
do not concerne
them,
as
in
is
very
crnbcfeeming
a
man,
fo
it
is
that
that
occasions
a
great deale-of
diluf
h
ante
in the
fa-
lily.
Thirteenthly,
Another helpe
Will
be
to
confider thus
:
O
what
if
this
be
now
a
temptation of
the
Devil
;
-the
Devil
owes
me
a
fpight,
and who
knows
what
the Devil
is
now
putting
me-
upon,
if thou
had'ft but fomuchpower
over
thy heart
as
to
think thus, when
ever
I
am
in
a
fit
of
paffion,
this
is
like to
be
a
temptation, theDevil
intends
to
doe
me
famemifchiefe
at
this
time
:
It's
an
excellent
fimilitude
that
Auguftin bath about
this
:
As it
is
with
a
Fowler
(faith
he)
he
fets
his
net
necre
hedgewherethe birds
are
and
then-
he
goes
and
takes
limes
and
flings
into
the
hedge,
to
fcare
the
birds, the
Fowler
doth
not
the
to
k
1l
the birds
by
the
flow,
kg
it
is
to
drive
them
bi
the
fl'one;
out
of
the
hedge,
that
fo
they
mayfly
into
the
net
:
So
,it
is faith.
he,
when
the Devil
bath
an
intention
to
draw
thee tofome
fn;
faith
the Devil;I
cannottell
hoWto:draw
them
to
fuck
and filch
fins
except
I'
flirre
their
paflion,
:
letme but
flirre
their pinion
and
thenI
thall get them
to
that
fin
well
enough.
;
the thing
that the Devil
aimes
at,
is
fore
fin he would
have
diem
falli
-
tQ;