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…

Whereupon, it was an excellent speech of the last French King, as his Chronicler reports: When I was borne, there were ¹a thousand other souls more borne: what have I done unto God, more then they? It is his mere grace and mercy, which doth often bind me more unto his justice: for the faults of great men are never small.

Whereupon, it was an excellent speech of the last French King, as his Chronicler reports: When I was borne, there were ¹a thousand other soules more borne: what haue I done vnto God, more then they? It is his meere grace and mercie, which doth often bind me more vnto his iustice: for the faults of great men are neuer small.

1. 1In the History of his life and death, pag. 93.In the Historie of his life and death, pag. 93.

Let none then, I say, over-look, disdain, or brow-beat their brethren, by reason of any extraordinariness of gifts, eminency of parts, singularity of Gods special favour, or indulgence towards him in any good thing, which he denies to others. Especially, thy self being vouchsafed the mercy of conversion; never insolently and imperiously insult over those poor souls, who are beside themselves in matter of salvation, who like miserable drudges, damn themselves in the Devils slavery, and suffer their corrupt nature to carry them to any villainy, lust, or lewd course. Alas! our hearts should bleed within us, to behold so many about us, to imbrue their cruel hands in the blood of their own souls, by their ignorance, worldliness, drunkenness, lust, lying, scoffing at profession, hating to be reformed, &c. What heart, except it be hewed out of the hardest rock, or hath sucked the breasts of merciless Tigers, but would yearn, and weep, to see a man made of the same mould with himself, wilfully, as it were, against the Ministry of the Word, a thousand warnings, and Gods many compassionate invitations, to cast