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Let us all seek this one way, and all false ways utterly abhor. Matth. 23.9. You have but one father in heaven, and but one way to please him; which is to walk in this one way of truth. Gal. 6.16. As many as walk after this rule, peace be on them, and mercy: all other rules are warped and out of square. Luk. 10.42. One thing is necessary. Psal. 119.9. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by ruling himself after thy word: all other ways defile, do not cleanse. There are innumerable ⟨p. 436⟩ways to hell: you may go thither by pride, by avarice, by malice, by hypocrisy; any way will serve to meet at the bottom of the hill, that infernal centre: b•• still to heaven there is but one way. There is a way to honour, by flattering ins••• tions into the bosom of Princes: there is a way to pleasure, by making the flesh mistress, and denying her nothing: there is away to be rich, by usury and oppression: there is a way to get offices and livings; by swallowing a simoniacal oath, or pu• ting out the givers eye by bribery. But there is but one way to make a man blessed, and that is The way of truth. Withal it shall make thee great enough, and merry enough, and rich enough; but howsoever, happy enough. Refuse all to take th• way: they write of the stone Pyrrhenus, that so long as it is whole it swimmeth; b•• being broken, every part sinketh. So is mans heart, if divided, it sinks all to confusion; keep it whole to the way of truth, it shall be saved.

Let us all seeke this one way, and all false wayes utterly abhorre. Matth. 23.9. You have but one father in heaven, and but one way to please him; which is to walke in this one way of truth.