Some general directions for a comfortable walking with God delivered in the lecture at…Some generall directions for a comfortable walking with God deliuered in the lecture at…

7. That, which thou art in a bodily fear, the Minister will meddle and meet with, when thou art going towards a conscionable, and searching Sermon. For thou thinkest with thy self, If this day he disclose my bosom, I shall both be disgraced amongst my neighbours that know it, and cast also into dumps, and melancholy by his denouncing of terror against it.

7. That, which thou art in a bodily feare, the Minister will meddle and meete with, when thou art going towards a conscionable, and searching Sermon. For thou thinkest with thy selfe, If this day he disclose my bosome, I shall both be disgraced amongst my neighbours that know it, and cast also into dumps, and melancholy by his denouncing of terrour against it.

8. Thoughts, plots, and projects, about it, a thousand to one, ordinarily seize upon thine heart, with first and most acceptable entertainment at thy very first waking; if they have not broken off thy sleep, and troubled thee in thy dreams.

8. Thoughts, plots, and proiects, about it, a thousand to one, ordinarily seize vpon thine heart, with first and most acceptable entertainement at thy very first waking; if they haue not broken off thy sleepe, and troubled thee in thy dreames.

9. The cares, pleasures, and appurtenances of it, are wont to thrust, and throng upon thee on the Lords Day, with extraordinary eagerness, importunity, and unresistablenesse. For the Devil that desires to have thy mind most distracted upon that Day, makes choice of the fittest, and pleasingest baits, to draw away and detain thy heart, and the most alluring objects, for diversion.

9. The cares, pleasures, and appurtenances of it, are woont to thrust, and throng vpon thee on the Lords Day, with extraordinary eagernesse, importunitie, and vnresistablenesse. For the Deuill that desires to haue thy mind most distracted vpon that Day, makes choyse of the fittest, and pleasingest baites, to draw away and detaine thy heart, and the most alluring obiects, for diuersion.