Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

3. If any be in danger of Error, or got into an ill way, keeping up warm Duties, Meditation and Prayer will keep him in, or help him out; communion with the Saints is an admirable antidote against sin or Error. As in a Team of Horses if one lash out of the way; if the other hold their course they will draw the former to the right path, 1 John 2.20. ye have an unction, and ye know all things; when there are Antichrists and great Apostasies, keeping to Duty, like keeping the Road, preserveth us from by-paths. I remember a Snowy night when many wandering homeward were frozen to death; A Shepherd feeling himself foiled, by often falling, set down his Crook in one point and beat a path round, and so preserved his life and kept him out of precipices and ditches. And we have a promise of light, if we press to the mark and prize of our high calling, Phil. 3.15. carry the Goal in your Eye and it will direct you a path where there is none upon a plain. Sincerely aim at Gods glory, and your Souls salvation, and you shall not miss your way. If in any thing you should miss it, and be otherwise minded, God will reveal even this unto you. Yea, our great Lord and Master assureth us, John 7.17. He that doth the will of God, he shall know the Doctrine, whether it be of God, or I speak of my self. But if Men will make bold with God and Conscience, and act for their own ends and glory, they rob God of his supremacy, and will lose both their way and their end. He that walketh uprightly hath God for his guard and guide, with devout Zechariah he is within the Veil, and if he be in a mistake God will reveal it to him: For the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him, and he will make them know his Covenant, Psal. 25.14. Go to thy Oracle and pray, and a ray of heavenly light shall direct you, as the Wise-mens Star, to the holy Jesus; their minds are Gods candles, Prov. 20.27. and as Father of Lights, he will light them when they approach him with ardent supplication.

3. If any be in danger of Error, or got into an ill way, keeping up warm Duties, Meditation and Prayer will keep him in, or help him out; communion with the Saints is an admirable antidote against sin or Error. As in a Team of Horses if one lash out of the way; if the other hold their course they will draw the former to the right path,