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…

Thou must be content to abridge, and confine thy Christian liberty at any time, according to opportunities, and exigents, for the enlargement of Gods glory, the building up of thy brother, and snaffling thine own rebellious nature.

Thou must be content to abridge, and confine thy Christian liberty at any time, according to opportunities, and exigents, for the enlargement of Gods glory, the building vp of thy brother, and snaffling thine owne rebellious nature.

Thou mayest, and must judge by the fruits. It is Christs Rule, Matth. 7 16. If therefore thou seest the abominable and unsavoury fruits of lying, swearing, drunkenness, Sabbath breaking, usury, scoffing at Religion, &c. hanging out in the fight of the Sun; thou mayest justly censure the tree to be rotten, and for the present, fuel for the fire of Hell. Thou mayest judge no man rashly, nor of his final estate: (If we see a malefactor cast, and condemned for some grievous crime, yet reprieved unto the next Assize; no man can say, he shall be certainly hanged, because a pardon may be procured, and come from the King in the mean time: it is so in the present case.) But thou mayest call a spade, a spade; a drunkard, a drunkard; an usurer, an usurer. Otherwise, if thou daub and dissemble, how shalt thou ever be able to escape liablenesse to that abomination, Prou. 17. 15. He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just: even they both are abomination to the Lord? And to the sting of that woe, Isai. 5. 20. Woe unto them that call evil, good; and good evil; that put darkness for light; and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter. Yet know, that speaking the evil thou certainly knowest by another, must be seasonable, charitable and discreet: not out of humour, spleen, imperiousness, at thy pleasure; but for Gods honour, the good of the party, thine own discharge, upon a warrantable calling, &c. according to those Rules I shall hereafter deliver for guiding the tongue.