The spiritual watchThe spirituall vvatch

§. 10. We have as much cause then ⁿto watch even against our selves, as against any adversary whatsoever. Since that as the Heathen man sometime said, ^oEvery man is the first and the greatest flatterer of himself: and others could never come to fasten their flatteries upon us, if we did not before flatter our selves: So ^pevery man is the first and the greatest enemy to himself: and other enemies could never do us any harm, if we did not first conspire with them to hurt our selves. And if they had need to be exceeding vigilant, and extraordinarily circumspect, that have not only many open enemies, besetting and assaulting them on every side without, but many close traitors also, that have busy heads and working brains, plotting and practising continually their ruin at home; then surely no less cause have we to be extraordinarily watchful, whose case, as we see, is the very same. If ^qour first parents had cause to watch in Paradise, when there was no adversary but without: Much more have we cause to watch, and to watch most diligently now, when we have adversaries ^rboth without & within. For therein is the difference, as ^sone saith well, between ^tAdam & ^uJudas, so between our first parents and us, that Outward temptation prevented inward corruption in them, inward corruption preventeth outward temptation in us. So many adversaries therefore, so vigilant, so diligent, round about us, on every side of ⟨p. 16⟩us, before us, behind us, above us, beneath us, without us, within us, ^*