0 f turning from our e1Ji0 lltayes. preffion, as brought him;home, Andfo fhould all filCh ·pfl.lfagesworke with us : And that is the third direction. ' 4 Rule is not _fimply t<? goe about'to reuft the fin, Rtlle •. and w turne from the evd ofour ways,bur to fil rhe . 4 · heart with fomething tha~ishetter; for whenlufts arr mortified, the fireatneof our ~ffedionsare not dr.yed up,but diverted ; and therefore the way is not to goe about to fiop the current ofa finfulllull:, but to turne thy heart into another channell, fet thy heart upon fomething that i$ berter : Take a crabtree ll:ocke that is fower or bitter, the onely wayto . fweeten it, is to put in a graft of another nature, whichwill change it, and by little and littlefweeten the·conR:itution ofit. But yGu will fay,what is tobe put in'! I anfwet, goe not about it as amorall man, but as.aChriftiam, get lull:ification and SanCl:ificati on. It is true, k is profitable to bee much ,humbled for thy finne, and y.ou ought to be fo ; yet this is not the onely way to heale it, but the heart muft be ll:rengtheoed with the atfurance ofthe forgivenelfe ofit. . . · There is adouble way to get the heart turned a. way from finn~the one to fee the'loQthfomnelfe of that which we turne from, theother the beauty of the contrary ob}ed: wee turne to. Spend not all your paines about t.he firll:, but doe fomthing in the later ; the more contritioQ, the better. But it is not,got all at once, it is more increafedby alfurance and hope of pardon, when a.man begins tD htwe h1pe~ htepurije.s himfllft. S.o it is in all other exerci· R 3 fes ·.
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