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…

1. That two Angels are not met together in a Matrimonial state, but a son and daughter of Adam: And therefore they must look for infirmities, frailties, imperfections, passions, and provocations, on both sides.

1. That two Angels are not met together in a Matrimoniall state, but a sonne and daughter of Adam: And therefore they must looke for infirmities, frailties, imperfections, passions, and prouocations, on both sides.

2. That it is a charge given to all; That the Sun must not go down upon their wrath: much more to Man and Wife linked together in the nearest bond.

2. That it is a charge giuen to all; That the Sunne must not goe downe vpon their wrath: much more to Man and Wife linked together in the neerest bond.

3. That there never did, nor ever will come any good, by the falling out of Man and Wife. Well may they thereby become ridiculous to their servants, a by-word to their neighbours, Table-talk to the Country, troublers of their own house, and as a continual dropping one unto another: but they shall never gain by their mutual hastiness, passions, and impatience. What good can come by a mans anger and indignation against his own flesh? What prodigious madness is it for them to grow strange, whom so many and perpetual bands have tied so fast; and who without dearest and most intimate familiarity, can neither enjoy civill contentment or peace of conscience? Suppose that the heart should fall out with the head, and deny unto it, those spirits which become animal in the brain, and serve for exercise both of sense, and by consequent of the higher part of the soul; What would follow, but distemper, distraction, and madness? Or that the head should fall out with the body; and thereupon restrain from it the influence of animal spirits, the instruments of the quickening and moving it; What