Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

4. How this Cure of such a temper may be effectually wrought, is the next thing to be enquired into; and the great import of the case before us; and a great cluster of apt and pertinent Expedients doth the Text here entertain us with Such as, 1. Determining and designing to enterprise the thing; here called Provocation to love and to good works, [Greek or Hebrew]· This is the great concern to be espoused, and the great scope of our intentions, resolutions, and endeavours. Love, and good works, are the great Cure of this Distemper, to which we must direct our thoughts, words, deeds, provokingly. Col iv. 5▪ 6 Such a Distemper must not be ordinarily expected to be cured by accident; nor are their Labours likely to be prosperous, who do not cordially design this Cure. 2 The mutual Considerations of Persons. Consider one another to a Provocation. So the Greek. We must take into serious, deep and frequent thoughts, the ⟨image 146⟩quality, capacity, spirits, courses and concerns of one another, and see wherein they are defective, or exemplary and proficient in these things; as also how to qualify our selves, and how to manage our spirits, speeches and behaviour, to the procurement of this end; and how to provoke our selves to Love, and to Good Works, by what we see in others, and hear from them or concerning them, Phil. iv. 8, 9. Rom. xv. 14. i Thess. v. 14, 15. for we are all of us obnoxious unto very great decays in Christian Affections and Behaviour (and who is free throughout from guilt herein?) and equally concerned in this healthful exercise and temper. 3. Actual Endeavours upon consideration to fix the temper and behaviour right; for thoughts and purposes are vain things till they be put in execution. Such as Mutual Exhortation, attending on assembling of our selves together, and our growthful progress in these things, under the reinforcements and frequent representations of the approaching day. Hence then consider we, 1. The Text. 2. The Case.

4. How this Cure of such a temper may be effectually wrought, is the next thing to be enquired into; and the great import of the case before us; and a great cluster of apt and pertinent Expedients doth the Text here entertain us with Such as, 1. Determining and designing to enterprize the thing; here called Provocation to love and to good works, · This is the great concern to be espoused, and the great scope of our intentions, resolutions, and endeavours. Love, and good works, are the great Cure of this Distemper, to which we must direct our thoughts, words, deeds, provokingly. Col iv. 5 6 Such a Distemper must not be ordinarily expected to be cured by accident; nor are their Labours likely to be prosperous, who do not cordially design this Cure. 2 The mutual Considerations of Persons. Consider one another to a Provocation. So the Greek. We must take into serious, deep and frequent thoughts, the