A third Rule is, when you have found out your 1sin, stir up your heart against it with indignation: ⟨p. 97⟩This is that which hath caused me all this woe, that hath brought all this trouble and smart. As Acts 21. 28. the Jews took hold on Paul, crying, Men of Israel, help, This is the man, that teacheth every where against the people: So should we take hold on our sin, that we have found out, and cry to the Lord, Help, O Lord, this is that sin that hath made the breach, this is that sin that hath been the cause of so much evil unto me. As we read of Antonius, after Julius Caesar was murdered, he brought forth his coat all bloody and cut, and laid it before the people, Look here, says he, you have your Emperors coat thus bloody and torn: whereupon the people were presently in an uproar, and cried out to slay those murderers, and they took their tables and stools that were in the place, and set them on fire, and ran to the houses of those who had slain Caesar, and burnt them. Thus the looking upon our afflictions, and considering what mischief sin hath done us, our hearts should be raised to fly upon our sin with indignation, and not to be satisfied without the destruction of that which would have destroyed us.
A third Rule is, when you have found out your 1sin, stir up your heart against it with indignation: ⟨p. 97⟩This is that which hath caused me all this wo, that hath brought all this trouble and smart. As Acts 21. 28. the Jews took hold on Paul, crying, Men of Israel, help, This is the man, that teacheth every where against the people: So should we take hold on our sin, that we have found out, and cry to the Lord, Help, O Lord, this is that sin that hath made the breach, this is that sin that hath been the cause of so much evil unto me. As we read of Antonius, after Julius Caesar was murthered, he brought forth his coat all bloody and cut, and laid it before the people, Look here, says he, you have your Emperors coat thus bloody and torn: whereupon the people were presently in an uproar, and cryed out to slay those murtherers, and they took their tables and stools that were in the place, and set them on fire, and ran to the houses of those who had slain Caesar, and burnt them. Thus the looking upon our afflictions, and considering what mischief sin hath done us, our hearts should be raised to flye upon our sin with indignation, and not to be satisfied without the destruction of that which would have destroyed us.
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