Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of…

Seventhly, If you grow more vi•e in your own eyes. Pride is such a choking Weed, that nothing will prosper near it. Do you grow more out of love with mens esteem, and set less by it? are you not marvellous tender of being slighted? can you rejoice to see others preferred before you? can you heartily value, and love them that think meanly of you?

Seventhly, If you grow more vi•e in your own eyes. Pride is such a choaking Weed, that nothing will prosper near it. Do you grow more out of love with mens esteem, and set less by it? are you not marvellous tender of being slighted? can you rejoyce to see oth•rs preferred before you? can you heartily value, and love them that think meanly of you?

Eighthly, If you grow more quick of sense, more tender of sinning, more senses of Divine influences, or withdrawings. Are you more afraid of sin than ever? are your sins a greater pain to you than heretofore? are your very infirmities, your great afflictions? and the daily workings of corruption a continual grief of mind to you?

Eightly, If you grow more quick of sense, more tender of sining, more sensi• of Divine influences, or withdrawings. Are you more affraid of sin than ever? are your sins a greater pain to you than heretofore? are your very infirmities, your great afflictions? and the daily workings of corruption a continual grief of mind to you?

Ninthly, If you are acted more by love to God and Faith in these Promises. Fear is a slavish principle: do you find that you are acted less by fear, and more by love? do you look more frequently to the things not seen than ever? and doth the World abate in your esteem? do you go more out of your selves? do you live upon Christ as the Spring of your life, and make more use of him upon all occasions than ever? do you prize the Promise more, and hug and embrace them with greater dearness, and live more upon them.