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Dir. 5. Take heed of sinning: Keep still upon your watch against temptation; sin is the cause of all your sufferings; when it promiseth you delight, it is preparing for your sorrow; when it flattereth you into presumption, it is preparing for despair; when it promiseth you secrecy and security, it prepareth for your shame: and be sure your sin will find you out, Numb. 32. 23. If therefore you have offended, delay not your Repentance; and spare not the flesh in your return; but (unless the honour of God forbid it) take shame to your selves by free confession, and make the fullest reparation of the injury that you can to God and man. If you would thus get out the thorn that vexeth you, the ways of God would be more pleasant.

Dir. 5. Take heed of sinning: Keep still upon your watch against temptation; sin is the cause of all your sufferings; when it promiseth you delight, it is preparing for your sorrow; when it flattereth you into presumption, it is preparing for despair; when it promiseth you secresie and security, it prepareth for your shame: and be sure your sin will find you out, Numb. 32. 23. If therefore you have offended, delay not your Repentance; and spare not the flesh in your return; but (unless the honour of God forbid it) take shame to your selves by free confession, and make the fullest reparation of the injury that you can to God and man. If you would thus get out the thorn that vexeth you, the ways of God would be more pleasant.

Dir. 6. Daily live in the exercise of faith, upon the everlasting pleasures: Dwell as at the gates of Heaven; as men that are waiting every hour when they are called in, and when death will draw aside the veil, and show them the blessed face of God. And take heed that the enmity of interposing Death, prevail not against the Joys of faith. But look to Christ that hath conquered it, and will conquer it for you; And if thus you could live as strangers here, and as the Citizens of Heaven, that are ready to step into the immortal pleasures, you would then taste the Pleasures of a holy life, in the first fruits and foretasts thereof. It is your Treasure that must Delight you; As your Heart must be there, so your pleasure must be derived thence. Strangers to Heaven will be strangers to the Believers Joys; As the pleasure of the Carnal world, consisteth in the sense of what they have in hand; so the pleasure of Believers consisteth in the fore-apprehensions of what they shall enjoy with God for ever. If