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and whosoever will begin and continue, thus to resist and pursue his sins, shall find them (as the Philistines before Samson) to fly, and fall down dead before him.

and whosoeuer will begin and continue, thus to resist and pursue his sinnes, shall finde them (as the Philistims before Samson) to fly, and fall downe dead before him.

5.¹ After Prayer, or with it, holy Meditations must come in, both to quicken, as also to back it: and amongst all matter of meditation, against particular sins, we must accustom our selves specially to four general meditations, that are indifferently and equally forcible against every sin.² First, of the most holy and pure nature of God, how great, wise, just, true, merciful he is, that he hath an all-seeing eye, and an all-hearing ear, in every place beholding the evil and the good, and pondering all the paths of the sons of men, that he hateth sin with a perfect hatred, as being contrary to his most holy will and Commandments: that he will punish it with most severe punishment, as being the righteous Judge of all the world, who cannot endure iniquity, nor will hold the wicked innocent: that he is most gracious and loving to the penitent sinner, and will spare him as a father doth his child: that he will keep all his promises, and make good all his threatenings, with all faithfulness, and not suffer one tittle of his Word to fall to the ground. In a word, that he is every way most holy, and most ⟨p. 145⟩excellent, and will reward all that seek to him, and obey him; and avenge himself upon all that stubbornly rebel against him, and forsake the ways of his Commandments, to walk after their own crooked devices and inventions.

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