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418 Duties to be performed in our lives . gently to employ our felves either in good exercifes or in the works of our callings : 2. To refift tenta.- tions, and to withftand them : 3. To be vigilant and watchfull, Mark r 3.3 3. 1. Pet. 5.8. Ephef. 5. r 5. axpßcv"s167 v, to walk circumfpely, to (hake off fe- curity; to keep a watch over our fenfes ; To make a covenant with our eyes, Job 3 r. 1. To defire the Lord to turn away our eyes from beholding vAnities, Pfal. 119.3 7. 4. To get unto us the whole armour of God; as, the floieldof faith, &c. Ephef. 6. 123 1 3,18. I.Theff.5.8. I I. More particular : 1. To deny our felves; to crucifie thefefh, and not tofatisfie the lulls thereof; to abflein from fief hly lulls, i . Pet. z . z r . 2. To renounce the world and the defires thereof, z. John 2.15,16. 3. To refift the devil; not to yield to his motions, but rather pra lice the contrary; not to believe his perfwafions, z. Pet. 5.9. Jam. 4.7. 4. To hate all finne, as we delire to be delivered from a ; To re- tein no one finne, with Herod; To no finne fmall ; To abflein alfo from all Then of ttvil, r .Theft: 5.22. To defire full deliverance, Phil.r. 23. Cupid di ffolvi, I delire to be diffolved. Rom. 7. 24.. guis me liberabit? Who fhall deliver me Hypocrifie difcovered. Here then is difcovered the hypocrite of thofe, T. Who pray that God would not lead them into tentation, and themfelves runne into tentation; as thole that go to playes and give themfelves to idle- nefffe ; 2. Who by fecurity and idleneffe make pre- paration for the unclean fpirit, Matt.12.44. 3 Who take thought for the f eib to fatisfie the lulu thereof, Rom.