The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…

First, thou must be expert in the Catalogue of promises, that concern infirmities, mentioned in the third Treatise. For those will preserve thy faith in Gods favour, against the daily experience of frailty, and infirmity in thy self. For thou mayest by them see, that thou hast no reason to doubt of the continuance of Gods love to thee only, because of thy many weaknesses. For in those promises, he hath and doth declare, how graciously he ⟨p. 301⟩is inclined to his servants, and passeth by their frailty, and accepteth their desires and endeavours, &c. This rule will prove a main support of the contentment of thy life: and therefore let not Satan make thee either despise, or neglect it.

First, thou must be expert in the Catalogue of promises, that concerne infirmities, mentioned in the third Treatise. For those wil preserue thy faith in Gods fauour, against the daily experience of frailetie, and infirmitie in thy selfe. For thou maist by them see, that thou hast no reason to doubt of the continuance of Gods loue to thee only, because of thy many weaknesses. For in those promises, hee hath and doth declare, how graciously he ⟨p. 301⟩is inclined to his seruants, and passeth by their frailty, and accepteth their desires and endeuours, &c. This rule will prooue a maine support of the contentment of thy life: and therefore let not Sathan make thee either despise, or neglect it.

Secondly, thou shalt do well to establish thy judgement particularly in the doctrine of the principles expressed in the fifth Treatise; and by sound learning of them settle thy self, so as thou be no more carried about with the wind of any contrary ⟨p. 302⟩doctrine: It should be the labour & care of all good Christians to keep the pattern of wholesome words, 2. Tim. 3. 13