Rules and helps tq chriftian meek,ne.1 e. 109 Then a lift rule is this, If you would keep your £pirics in qui- etnetiè, make account before hand, that you will meet with, things ;hit crofie your wills,that's a good help againf'par- lion, and to quiet our hearts, as A. naxagoras faxi, when he heard of his ion that was dead, faith he, I know that I begat him. morta! : So when you hire a fervant at firf, make account that there will beweaknefìe in your fervant before hand, certainty -there will be many things done by him that will difpleafe, me a -- When you marry a wife you should before hand make account, there will iomething fall out between us that will dif4 pleafe one another -- And io when you take a friend, before hand you mutt make account, it is a friend that hath both his frailryes.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 Iatìsfìed in every thing, this will be a means to. quiet our hearts, this is no more then I made account of. A Souldier that goes into an Arnay,when he meets with hardship, he is quieted with this, its nothing but what I nude account ofbefore hand : Mariners when they are abroadand meet With formes, were it feet-illy for them to vex and - fret, they knew . that it was likely they fhould meet with formes ; So when ever any thing falls out that crolies you, Remember this, if I had wiidome before hand certainly I could thinke none o:her but that I fhould have divers things would crolfe me:arid now God puts me to tryall to fee whether I will beare thefe ciofles or no that doth befall me. The Sixth Rule is this, Confider thy own frailty. Oilers there are that doe provoke thee and flirre up thine anger; but thòu muff goe by that rule, we feeke pardon, and we give it I meetewith fuch and fuch things in others, and it may be within a while they may meete with things amifle in me : they offend me, and I am like to offend them to, and that's a mar - Seilous helpe to quiet the fairits of thole that are truly graci- ous ; Therefore m the 6 of Galathrant, marke the argument of the Arofl:a There ; Brethren if a man be ovirtaken w;th a fault,ye which are fpirituall reftore fuch a one in the fp'rit of aseckr, mire, cenf?dering thy felfe left thou alto be tempted, and then it E e follow.,
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