a Chriflians Growth. 85 found temper, when upon eating fuch or Inch meats, a man is prefently put into the fit ofan ague ; a healthfull man is not fo. The Prophet calls them, the Bumbling block of their iniquity; When a man is going on his way, and though he did not feeke occafions of falling, yet meeting with them, he cannot flep over them, but is caught, and flumbleth, and falls, it is a figne of un. mortifiednef e. CHAP. V. Some Cautions toprevent misjudging byfalfe Rules : 7'hi cafe refolved, Whethergrowth in Mortification may be ï udgedby the ordinaryprevailings ofcorruption, or all- ivgs ofGrace. flEfides thefe rulesboth aide wayes given, I will in the third plac adde force cautionallconfiderations,to prevent misjudg- ing ofour growth in Mortification, bySuch falle rules as men are apt to be deceived, in judging worfe or better of our felves by, then the truth is, or then ,there is caute. Which confiderations will alto further ferve as diree ions to uc, as well as the former have done. Firft, men may.deceive themfelves when they eflimate their r, progref#'e herein by having overcome fuch lull's as their natures Not.to Judge arenot fo prone unto ; the furefl way is to take a judgement of byCome fits, it from the decay of a mans bofome finne, even as Davii did but thedecay eflimate his uprightnef e by his keeping himfelfe from [his ini- ofthy bofome quity,J Pfal. 18.23. fo a man of his growth in uprightneflè. fn. When Phyfitians would judge ofa confumption ofthe whole, they doe it not by the falling away of any part what ever, as of the fl;fh in the face alone, or any the like; Inch a particular a- batement offlefh in Tome one part, may come from fome.other caute ; but they ufe to judge by the falling away of the brawne of the hands, or armes, and thighes, &c. for thefe are the more folid parts : the like judgments doe Phyfitians make upon other difeafes, and of the abatement ofthem from the decreafe in fuch fymptomes as are Pathognomicall, and proper and peculiar to M ,them
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