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4. Thus shall we be the more stirred up to put forth our uttermost ability:¹ as it is in the Proverb, He that will shoot high must aim at the Sun, a mark far beyond his reach. A man that shooteth at a mark within his reach may shoot short for want of putting out his full strength.

4. Thus shall we be the more stirred vp to put forth our vttermost abilitie:¹ as it is in the Prouerbe, He that will shoote high must aime at the Sunne, a marke farre beyond his reach. A man that shooteth at a marke within his reach may shoote short for want of putting out his full strength.

1. 1Phil 3. 13, 14.

Little do they regard these helps,¹ who set the examples of mortal, weak, sinful men before them: and think all is well if they be any thing better then the worser sort of people; as that Pharisee who said.² O God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. Hence is it that they are so far from judging themselves for many of their sins, as they are ready rather to justify themselves when they are reproved, and to say, Do not such and such men the like? What sin almost might not be justified if the pattern of men on earth, yea of the best, were a sufficient plea and pretext? Have ye not heard of Noah's drunkenness, Davids adultery and murder, Lots incest Solomons idolatry, Peters denial of Christ, and other like sins committed by other like men? By such patterns men are many times made to stumble in the way wherein they should walk, if they be not clean turned out of it.