170 vermin 5. difhonoured, and the believer's Confcience greatly woun- ded, if he mifcarry : We may inffance it in thefe folenin ordinances of the Lord's fupper, of times of humilia- tion with falling, of publick or fecret perfönal covenan- ting with the Lord, and the like ; As here Paul refle&s particularly on his miniffry among the Corinthians, and on his way in it, as being of great moment, and fags, That it was more abundantly to them -ward. Thus it is in hearing the word, in prayer in our families and in fe- cret; in conferring to edification on fermons after we have heard them, or to any fpiritual purpofe ; in fan&i- fying the Lord's day, and fuch others : For in thefe duties the rule binds fogne way, nay, more ffriEly, God being in them in a more fpecial manner honoured or difhonoured ; and there is readier accefs to a challenge, if the perfon be wrong, and to peace and comfort, if right in thefe.. 2. There are forme things that are more tickle and difficult, in refpe& either of the nature of them, or in refpeet of our particular inclination to mil- carry in them : As for inflance, when a man in provi- dence bath been call into a place and company, where he was crouded with flares and ffron g temptations, he would there examine more particulary, that nothing have ¡luck to him that may be ground of challenge againfl him; fo in publick employments, wherein men are expofed to many temptations and fnares,efpeciallÿ when there's force.. what in their own temperature, inclination or hïámour,that difpofeth to yield, comply, and mifcarry ; they would' there be the more particular in their examination. Thus .David Pays, Pfal. IS. That he had not wickedly departed from God ; that he was upright before him, and had kept himfelf from his iniquity. There were fume fins that he was not in fuch hazard of, as he was of others ; and as he had guarded more againff them,, fo he takes a more par-; titular view of thefe fins that his natural temper inclined him moll to, and that he was moll in hazard of; which we would take notice of at all times, but efpecially in thefe times wherein men hazard on many things,hand over head and, as it were, by guefs So, when a man knows that his humour and temper difpofes him to be raíh and preci- pitant
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