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If you be not constant in good, you will be constant in what is evil; if not settled in the Truth, you will be tenacious of Error: which is the greatest evil, renacity in Error, or instability in Truth, I say not; but seldom any are unstable in good, but they are most tenacious in what is evil.

If you be not constant in good, you wil be constant in what is evil; if not setled in the Truth, you wil be tenacious of Error: which is the greatest evil, renacity in Error, or instability in Truth, I say not; but seldom any are u•stable in good, but they are most tenacious in what is evil.

And the more unsettled you are, the more you make the way to Heaven difficult, and uneasy: you think, and say, O!¹ this Work of God is exceeding hard, and very difficult, and therefore you leave it off; then you come to it again, and then you leave it off again; but by your leaving it off, you do make it difficult. If an Horse be ••dden with an even hand, he will go well all the day; but if sometimes you ride him upon the Spir, and then he stand a while, and then ride him on the Spir again, and then he stand and take cold again, he will sooner tire: And what is the reason that many men are so often jaded, tire, and give in, but because they do not keep an even pace in good? Now therefore, as you do desire that the way to Heaven may be […] easy to you, that you may not be tenacious in what is evil, that you may not grieve the Ministers of the Gospel, Instruments of your Good and Conversion, that you may not lie open unto sad, and new Temptations, and that you may not be a scandal to the good Name of God (for what hurt hath the precious Name of God done to you?) labour to be more ⟨p. 450⟩settled, fixed, and established; which that you may be, think, and think much on these Motives,