14 Riles and helps to Chritian meekneffe. what God calls you too, And there youwill have the blefíìng of God; but when men will have many Irons in the fire, more then God calls them to, no marvaile though their fingers be -burnt, we find that thofe men that are very bufie are very fro- ward, but now when j ou know that your bufinelfe is but that that God calls you to, and you doe it in Obedience to God,you may expea the blefltng of God upon you to quiet you, but otherwife:there will be many temptations init. Twelfthly, Further, Take heed of too much curiofity : A .iaan that is in a family, if he will be prying into every thing in the family,he mutt have his eyes in every room,and take notice, of every paflage in the family ,if fo, a thoufand to one but there will many things fall out that will diflurb his pafiïon, you muff not take notice of every little fault in a fervant,nor every linall offence in wife or children, but you muft fee and not lee, if you will be of meek spirits. Afooltih nice curioi:ry in men in prying into every thing in a family, and thole , hing' it may be that do not concerne them, as it is very unbefeen ng a man, Co it is that that occanons a great deale of ciifturoance in the fa- mily. 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'íi but fo much power over- thy heart as to think thus, when ever lam in a fit of pähion, the is like to be. a temptation, the Devil intends to Moe me fome,smifchiefe at this time : It's an excellent fimilitude that Aiguflflin bath about' this : As it is with a Fowler (faith he) he fets his net ,neere . hedge where the birds are, and then be goes and takes 'tones and flings into the hedge, to fcare the birds, the Fowler doth not think, to k ll the birds by the _limes, but it is to drive them 62 the floeer out of the hedge, that fo they mayfly into the net : So it is faith he, when the Devil hath an intention to draw thee to fom fin, faith the Devil,l cannottell howto draw them to fuch and fuck fins except I flirre their paffion, ,let me but flirre their pa(lion and then shall gét them to that fin well enough the thing that the Devil males at, is fore fin he would have dam fall i i- to;
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