74 The Lift of GOD are about to fay or do. If we would have <Our refolutions take effeCt, we n1ufl: take heed unto our ·ways, and fet a ·watch be.:. fore the door of our lips, and examine the rnotions that ari.fc in our hearts, and caufe then1 to tell us whence they come and whither they go; whether it be pride or paffion, or any corrupt and vitious hun1uor that, prompteth us to any defign, and whether God will be offended, or any body harn1cd by it. And if we have no time for long reafonings, let us at leafl: turn our eyes towards God, and place ourfelves in his prefence, to aik his leave and approbation for what we do; let us confider ourfelves ·under the all-feeing eye of that divine IVlajefiy, as in the 1nidfl: of an infinite globe of light which compaft feth ns about both behind and before, and pi .~rceth to the innermofl: corners of our foul. The fenfe and re.1nen1brance of the divine prcfence, is the mofl: ready and ef– fcr1:ual means, both to difcover what is unl3wful and to refl:rain us fron1 it. There are f<_;me things aperfon could make ihift to palliate or defend, and yet he dares not look almighty God in the face and ad– venture upon them. If we look unto · l1im, we fl~all be lightened: if we Je.t him alu't!JS b.ifore us, he will guide us by his eye
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