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

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.

Secondly, thou shalt doe well to establish thy iudgement particularly in the doctrine of the principles expressed in the fifth Treatise; and by sound learning of them settle thy selfe, so as thou bee no more carried about with the winde 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.

Concerning thy repentance,¹ as now it is to be urged upon thee; after thy assurance one rule is of singular use, and that concerns the Catalogue of present sins: By the directions in the first Treatise, I suppose thou hast delivered thy self from the body of sins, so as the most of those evils mentioned in thy first and great Catalogue, are shaken off, never to be committed again, ⟨p. 303⟩and so thou hast no more to do about them, but give God thanks for thy deliverance from them through Jesus Christ: Now because after thy first repentance, there will remain some corruptions, which as yet are not rooted out; thy course for thy whole life, for these remainders of sin, would be this: Make thee a Catalogue of thy present sins, even of such evils as thou findest thy self yet daily prone unto. Examine thy self seriously to this end: it may be thou wilt find 6. or 8. or 10. or