The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatisesThe marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises

And thou mayest be the more encouraged to study and practise ¹these rules, because thou hast the most express and apparent word of God to warrant and require thy obedience herein.

And thou maiest bee the more encouraged to studie and practise ¹these rules, because thou hast the most expresse and apparant word of God to warrant and require thy obedience herein.

1. 1Thy warra•.

Be not so profane, as to think, that here is more to do then needs, or that I burden the lives of Christians with a multitude of unnecessary Precepts, and so make the way harder then it is: For I require thy obedience in nothing thou hast not reason to be persuaded to be enjoined thee by the pure Word of God: and thou must know, to the confusion of thy security, that he that will walk safely, must walk by rule, Gal. 6. 16. He is yet in darkness, and walks on in darkness, and sees not what he doth, or whither he goeth, that doth not make the ⟨p. 443⟩Word of God the light unto his sect, and the Lantern unto his paths, Ps. 119. There is an holy order of life commended in the godly, Col. 2. 5. And Gods promises are made to such as will dispose of their whole ways aright. A loose conversation is an ill conversation; and if ever we would see the salvation of God, we must be at the pains to dispose of our ways, and to see to it, that we dispose of our ways aright,