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Use 2 Is Counsel needful for the best? This then may exhort us willingly to seek it, and submit to it, when it is offered by God. Nature teacheth lame and blind men to be willing to be led; we are all weak, therefore let us lean one upon another; we are all blind, let us therefore be guided. A child can happily tell the next way to a Town, ⟨p. 6⟩better then a man that is a stranger, now it were a mad thing to say, it was a child that directed me, therefore I will not go that way, John 4. If the people had not gone to Christ, because a woman told them of Christ, but had said tush, it was a woman that told us of it, therefore we will not go, they had never seen Christ. Therefore frame your hearts to yield to advice, and bless God that ever he bestowed it, seeing it is so needful.

Vse 2 Is Counsell needful for the best? This then may exhort us willingly to seeke it, and submit to it, when it is offered by God. Nature teacheth lame and blind men to be willing to be led; wee are all weake, therefore let us leane one upon another; wee are all blind, let us therefore be guided. A child can happily tell the next way to a Towne, ⟨p. 6⟩better then a man that is a stranger, now it were a mad thing to say, it was a child that directed me, therefore I will not goe that way, Iohn 4. If the people had not gone to Christ, because a woman told them of Christ, but had said tush, it was a woman that told us of it, therefore we will not goe, they had never seene Christ. Therefore frame your hearts to yeeld to advice, and blesse God that ever hee bestowed it, seeing it is so needfull.

Ob. But if it were not sharp, I could be content to bear it, but it is so keen and cross to my nature to have such sharp reproof as he gives, that I cannot brook it.