Confieleraitions to quicken our appetites after righteoufneffe. 308 mercy inthis dangerous time wherein we-14,e t-ó refift tempta- tions, a weak fickfy man or woman, they had need of a ftaffe, they are ready to {tumble at every ftone, and fo a weak chrifti- an is ready to Rumble at every offence, but a man that bath got ftrength, he can go Readily, and fo thong chriflians they are able to do ir, and therefore you find that Saint Peter when be would give a rule how men lhould come to be Readfaft, in the 2 Epífl ch. 3. 17, i 8. he faith, Beloved, feei n ye know thefe things before, beware left ye alfo, being led away with tkc erreur 6f the wicked, fall fromyour event eadf afb e f f e But ;row in Qra -e; &c. As if the Chriftian fhould fay, how tliould we take heed that we fall not from our Redfaftneffe,notwithftanding the ma- ,ny errours there are in the times wherein we live, Turn he,grow in grace : there is in thefe dayes, a deluge of errours in the world, and they catch young ones, weak people, and women and fo they come to fall from their own Redfaftneffe, but the way to prevent this, is to grow in grace, hunger after more, keep your appetites after more, and let your prayers and your endeavours be after increafe of righteaufnefs, that fo you may keep your Redfafnefs. Seventhly, By the increafe of grace, you will be able to have a more abundant enterance into Heaven when you dye ; yon will dye with more peace, and have an abundant entrance into the Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jefus Chrif, it's not by having a little grace, though you may get tó Heäven,yet you cannot have that abundant entrance into Heaven, as in z Pet. I. 5. And betides this,giving all diligence,add to your faith vertue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledgetemperance,and to temperance patience, and to patiencegodlineffe, and to godlinefe brotherly 1¿;ndnefJe, and to brotherly kindneffe charity, for if thefe things be in you and abound,they makeyou that ye (hall neither he barren nor unfruitful' in the knowledge of our Lord 7efus Chrifl; wherefore ( faith he in the i o verte) the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and elellion fare ; for if you do thefe things, ye (hall never fall ; for fo an entrance fhall be mini fired to you abundantly, into the everlafl ing Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour 3e f is Chr,il.The Apoftle would have us add one grace to
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