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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 6 › Rules drawn from the Negative part of this model.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
O let your prayer be all times, (but especially on the Sabbath day) that o holy David; set a watch O Lord before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips: the sabbath is Gods glory, let your tongues be so too.
The like caution we ought to use about our thoughts (by the rule of proportion) they being the language of our hearts, 1and as audible in the ears of God as our words are to mens; yea whereas men understand our hearts by our words, God understand our words by our hearts.
- 18th Rule.
Moses did set bounds about the mount that neither man nor beast might break in, whatsoever touched the mountain must dye: 1so must we set bounds about our heart, that neither humane, nor brutish distractions may break in. There is death or life in it, and therefore of all keepings, keep thy heart, 2for out of it are the issues of life.
Moses did set bounds about the mount that neither man nor beast might break in, whatsoever touch't the mountain must dye: 1so must we set bounds about our heart, that neither humane, nor brutish distractions may break in. There is death or life in it, and therefore of all keepings, keep thy heart, 2