The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

2. When thou art tempted to do an evil work,¹ remember that Satan is where his business is. Let not the child of God be the instrument of so base a slave: hate the Work if thou abhorrest the Author. Ask thy Conscience these two questions: Would I have another to do this unto me? ²What shall I answer Christ in the day of my ^aaccounts, if contrary to my knowledge and conscience, I shall do this wickedness, and sin against him? and remember with Joseph, ^bthat though no man seeth, yet God seeth all. Fly therefore (with Joseph) from all sins, as well those that are secret in the sight of God, as those that are manifest in the the eyes of Men. For God as he is just, without speedy repentance, will bring thy secret sins, as he did David's to the open light, ⁵before all Israel, and before the Sun. Be therefore as much afraid of secret sins,⁶ as of open shame. And so avoid all in general, as that thou dost not allow to the self any one particular, or darling sin,⁷ which the corruption of thy Nature could best agree withal: For the crafty devil can hold a man's soul as fast by one, as by many sins: and faster by that one which doth please thee, than by all those which begin to be abominable unto thee. And as thou de•••est to avoid a sin; so be careful to shun the^* the occasion.

2. When thou art tempted to do an evil work,¹ remember that Satan is where his business is. Let not the child of God be the instrument of so base a slave: hate the Work if thou abhorrest the Author. Ask thy Conscience these two questions: Would I have another to do this unto me?