The Seventh D I R EC T I 0 N. . A feventh rule is, -Do ~at prowife to yoNr [eltm to9 mueb be- . f!ir th4fnd, do not m,;/ze account of to.o gre4t t~i-ngs: Itis good for us to take. hol? very low,and not _thlllk to p1 tch too h1gh; do not 'foJ r tooJ11gb m your tl1o!Jgbts beforehand, to think, Oh, if I had t h1s and this, and imagine gr~a t matters to your felves, but be a$ good Jacob, you know he was aman that liTed a very contented l1fe in a mean condition, ( faith he) Lord, if 1 rntJy lut have clothes to p~tt on, and mtat ro eat ; he loo~·d no higher, he was content vvlth that: fo tf \Ve would not pach our.thoughts high • and think that we mi~ht have what others have, fo much, . and . fomuch, when we meet with difappointm~ms, we would not be fo much twubled: ·and fo Pan!,lf 'ire hf''rC, but meAt 11nd drink_ · and clothing, let us be tk e rewit~ con~(n t !. he did n~t foar too h: gb aloft, thofe that look at high thmgs ur the w~rld,they meet wah difappointments, and fo they come to be difcontent; be as high as you will in fpiritual meditations,God gives l1berty,there .to any of you to be as high as y-ou will, above'Angels; but fo.r your outward eflate,God would not have you aim at high things, See~eft thou great things (faith the Lord to ~arr~ch) fuk.. thms' not, you jl;a/J h11v1 your life ford pre~. In th'ete times efpeoally, _it were a very great evil for any to aim at great things,'Sei~ them mt, be willing to t:ike hold low, and fO creep low, and if God doth raife thee, thou !halt have caufe to blefs him, but if ·thou -lhouldeH not be railed, there would not be much trouble, one that creeps low, cannot fall far, but it.is thofe that are on high whofe fall doth bruife them mofl; that is a good rule, Promife not your !elves great matters, neither aim at any great things in · the Wor:d. " The Eighth .DIRECT I 0 N. ~. Labwr to .(ftt yoNr ht11rt1 mortifitJ to i-he World, ,Jwl to the )lor/d: We m~fl not content our felv-es that we have gotten fome reafonino above the vanity of the creature,&: fuch kind ,of things as thefe ~re but we mufi exercife mortification, , and be crucili~d to the ~odd, fa-ith PlfHI, I dye d~tily,we lhould dye daily to Jhe
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