Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

Again, If that you are more able to turn from the exercise of one Grace to another, and of one Duty unto another, then you were, this argues you are grown, if you be able to mingle Graces together: a weak Christian is all for one work, humiliation for sin committed, and it's true, we ought to be much humbled: I say, a weak Christian is all for one work, but the stronger you ⟨p. 16⟩grow, the more you will be able to mingle Graces together, and to turn from one to another. As now, if one learn to sing, when one hath but little skill, possibly a man may sing one tune; but the more a man grows in skill, the more he will be able readily to turn from one tune to another. So in Grace, a man may be able to mingle Graces more; and therefore our growth is so described, as you shall hear by and by in that of Peter, Add unto your Faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, &c.

Again, If that you are more able to turn from the exercise of one Grace to another, and of one Duty unto another, then you were, this argues you are grown, if you be able to mingle Graces together: a weak Christian is all for one work, humiliation for sin committed, and it's true, we ought to be much humbled: I say, a weak Christian is all for one work, but the stronger you ⟨p. 16⟩grow, the more you will be able to mingle Graces together, and to turn from one to another. As now, if one learn to sing, when one hath but little skill, possibly a man may sing one tune; but the more a man grows in skill, the more he will be able readily to turn from one tune to another. So in Grace, a man may be able to mingle Graces more; and therefore our growth is so described, as you shall hear by and by in that of Peter, Add unto your Faith vertue, and to vertue knowledge, &c.

Again, If you be able to go on in the ways of God more, without whip, or rod, or without spur, it argues you are grown more; give me leave to express it thus: A Horse at the first, till he be acquainted with the Rode and way, he is ridden with a whip and with a spur; but afterwards when he is well used to the way, you may lay the Bridle upon his head, and he need none of the spur and whip; why? because he is now used to the way: and so when Christians come on at the first, then they are whipped on with more fear; but now when the reins seem to be laid upon the neck, they go the better and the faster: when they can go without that whipping and the rod, it argues that they are used more to the way of God, then they were used before.