S z z Chan.6, r Cos rnenrarie'owe I6.5. 21.a (inne altuoU incurable , Seefl thou man that is rrfe j Én h«a own: eyes ? there is more hopeof t ferle then o f him, Pxou, 26. x a.therctorethe remediesarc more carefully to be known, andapplied. The remedies are ípccialiy flue. The first is, to Cooke our (dues in theglafl-e of the Laws s which will Clewwhat we arcwithout fla:teric,orpartialitie :-& by it we (hall fee nothing in our felues but the vgiy fhape of Satan, dunedefacing the image of God , and that in vs there dwellethnogood thing(as Paul faith ofhimfelfe,Rom.7. r 8.) 'that there is nothing but vamtic inour mindes, rebellion in our re Iwills, a cotifu(ed ataxie inall our affefèions , tranfgreffion in our hues. Theviewingofour hearts and huesin theLaw, and the confiderinöof our wretched cflate , in that we are vndcr the feareull curie , which is a thunderbolt annexed to curry breach thereof, will driue vs out ofall conceit of our felues, rs fromour felfe-roue, and felfe-liking : nay, it will make vs gee out ofour felues , not onely todemoenrfélues , asChrifis com- mands,but euen toabhorre ourfeles, repenting in drill andages, as Iob did, chap. 4z. 6. caufingvs to become flat nothing in our felues,that we may be fomething in Chrifl,as Paul faith,r, z® Cor. 3. z S. Let no man deceive himfelfe: ¡fanyman amongyen come to be wife in this world,lot himbe afeole,that he may bewife, Secondly, whenwe feele our felucatobe tickled with the it- ching humour of felfc-lone, and felfe-liking , airingfrom our hidden corruption , either in regardof outward gifts, or in- 2$ ward graces : we muffmake our owneeuills,finnes,blemif ies, imperfeions(for there is nomanbut hath one or othcr)a fo. ueraigne remedieagain(' it, and fo(as it were) driue away one peifonwith another. As to call to mimic fornegreat deformi- tie that is in our bodies . fome great infirmitìe that is 3e in our rninde , fome croffe or miferie in our outwarde elate, Come vile and abominable (inne which we haue com. mitted, and the horrible punithment , to the whichwe arely. able by reafon thereof: andno doubt but the ferious confide. ration of thefe,or any ofthefe,wil beauaileable,to nippe pride . 3; in the bud, &kill the fcrpent in the (hell : and in fo doingwe (hall with the Pcacocke, nowand then caft our eyes downe. ward, to our feote, the fowle(l and vglicfi things wehaue: and not alway fland inadmirationofour gay feathers ,13c glorious traine, Thirdly,
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