Be much in the study of your selves, what you were originally, and what you are since become through your own miscarriage, wilfulness and folly: Take your souls to the glass of the Law, and go from one precept to another, and when you have done there, go to the Gospel; And be sure you do not deal slightly, but understand throughly how much you have offended; And when you have well studied the number and quality of your sins, then consider the justice and holiness of the Eternal God, which you shall understand by the same Law and Gospel, where they speak the Divine Terror against offending-sinners; but more specially shall ye know is by going to the Cross of ⟨p. 245⟩Christ, and wisely and seriously considering the horror of that punishment, which Christ there endured; for we never know as we ought the evil of sin, and our misery thereby, until we know what he endured to make an Expiation for it. Do this, and do it faithfully: They that never knew themselves, they are most certainly without love to Christ: And it is enough to prove it, because unless this foundation be first laid, they can see no sufficient reason for it.
Bee much in the study of your selves, what you were originally, and what you are since become through your own miscarriage, wilfulness and folly: Take your souls to the glass of the Law, and go from one precept to another, and when you have done there, go to the Gospel; And be sure you do not deal sleightly, but understand throughly how much you have offended; And when you have well studied the number and quality of your sins, then consider the justice and holiness of the Eternal God, which you shall understand by the same Law and Gospel, where they speak the Divine Terrour against offending-sinners; but more specially shall yee know is by going to the Cross of ⟨p. 245⟩Christ, and wisely and seriously considering the horrour of that punishment, which Christ there indured; for wee never know as wee ought the evil of sin, and our misery thereby, until wee know what hee indured to make an Expiation for it. Do this, and do it faithfully: They that never knew themselves, they are most certainly without love to Christ: And it is enough to prove it, because unless this foundation be first laid, they can see no sufficient reason for it.
