A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties

We have not behaved our selves as it became subjects of thy Kingdom, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, and living holily, righteously, and ⟨p. 885⟩soberly in this present world. We have not denied our selves and our own wills and affections, which are opposite to thy holy will, nor endeavoured as we ought, to perform unto thee in all things, that absolute obedience which is due unto thee our Creator and Redeemer. We have not obeyed thee cheerfully and with delight, readily and without delays, sincerely and constantly, but have divided our selves between thee and the world, and have served thee but by fits and flashes. We have not in all things submitted our selves unto thy good pleasure, but have murmured against thy providence, when we have been crossed in our desires. We have not restrained and mortified our carnal and worldly lusts of ambition, covetousness, & voluptuousness, but have immoderately desired, and set our hearts too much upon earthly and momentany things. We have more hungered after the meat which perisheth, then after spiritual food which endures unto life everlasting. We have not contented our selves with that portion which thou hast allotted unto us, nor cast all our care upon thee for all things needful, but have turmoiled our selves with carking care, and trusted too much unto our own providence. We have not so earnestly desired to be freed from the corruption and pollution of our sins, as from the guilt and punishment, and have been more ready to have them pardoned, then to leave and forsake them. We have not laboured after the fruits of sanctification, to be assured thereby that we are justified and reconciled, or content our selves with a small measure, and thereby weaken our assurance. We are not pressed with our sins, as with an heavy burden, nor have (as we ought) seriously bewailed them, nor earnestly desired to be eased of them. We do not carefully keep our watch, that we be not again surprised by sin, and so are apt to relapse again into the same sins, after we have repented of them, and received pardon. We are negligent in the use of the means whereby we might be assured of the remission of our sins, neither do we sincerely and from the bottom of our hearts remit injuries, but in profession and show, forgiving, but not forgetting them.

Wee haue not behaued our selues as it became subiects of thy Kingdome, denying vngodlinesse and worldly lusts, and liuing holily, righteously, and ⟨p. 885⟩