The crucifying of the world

2. Keep also a constant guard upon your Thoughts as well as upon your senses. As the Thoughts will tell you what is in your hearts, so they will let in whatsoever bribeth them to consent. The fancies of men are the garden of the Devil, where he soweth and watereth the plants of impiety: Yea they are a principal room in which he doth inhabit. Its certain that the Devil hath readier access to the fantasy, then to the heart; and that it is his shop in which he forgeth most vices, and doth a very great part of his work. An unclean spirit possesseth the fantasies of the unclean; so that their thoughts are running upon lustful objects; and they are guilty of the filthyest cogitations within, when they seem to be of the chastest behaviour without; and do frequently commit fornication in the heart, when fear or shame doth restrain the outward practise, and cover their iniquity. The malicious person is possessed by a spirit of maliciousness that dwelleth in his fantasy, and sets him on contrivances of cruelty and revenge, and filleth his mind with thoughts of hatred and disdain. The same spirit reigneth in the fancies of the Proud, and setteth them upon contrivances for the advancing of their names, and causeth them to thirst after the reputation of the world, and filleth them with the troubled malicious thoughts of Haman, when they miss of their expectations. The earthly spirit possesseth the fantasies of the covetous, and setteth them on contrivances for the increase of their estates. Do you not feel by sad experience, how many of Satan's assaults are made upon your cogitations, and how much of his interest lieth there, and ⟨p. 173⟩how much of his work is there done? As ever you would be Crucified to the world then, set a watch upon your thoughts, and keep a daily and hourly account of them, and see that they be alway under the Government of faith and reason. Your thoughts should be kept chaste as the entrance into your hearts, and not be as common harlots entertaining every comer. If you feel your thoughts stepping out upon Lust or Malice, look after them betime, and call them in, and check them sharply, and lay a charge on them hereafter to be more pure.

2. Keep also a constant guard upon your Thoughts as well as upon your senses. As the Thoughts will tell you what is in your hearts, so they will let in whatsoever bribeth them to consent. The fancies of men are the garden of the Devil, where he soweth and watereth the plants of impiety: Yea they are a principall room in which he doth inhabite. Its certain that the Devil hath readyer access to the fantasie, then to the heart; and that it is his shop in which he forgeth most vices, and doth a very great part of his work. An unclean spirit possesseth the fantasies of the unclean; so that their thoughts are running upon lustful objects; and they are guilty of the filthyest cogitations within, when they seem to be of the chastest behaviour without; and do frequently commit fornication in the heart, when fear or shame doth restrain the outward practise, and cover their iniquity. The malicious person is possessed by a spirit of maliciousness that dwelleth in his fantasie, and sets him on contrivances of cruelty and revenge, and filleth his mind with thoughts of hatred and disdain. The same spirit reigneth in the fancies of the Proud, and setteth them upon contrivances for the advancing of their names, and causeth them to thirst after the reputation of the world, and filleth them with the troubled malicious thoughts of Haman, when they miss of their expectations. The earthly spirit possesseth the fantasies of the covetous, and setteth them on contrivances for the increase of their estates. Do you not feel by sad experience, how many of Satans assaults are made upon your cogitations, and how much of his interest lyeth there, and