Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

2 Evil thoughts are not only sinful in themselves, but they are likewise the cause of all sins, the plotters of all treasons against God, the Panders of all other lusts; so much the Apostle James expresseth,¹ When lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; lustful thoughts being conceived in the heart, they soon bring forth sin, breaking forth into acts of filthiness and uncleanness.

2 Evil thoughts are not onely sinful in themselves, but they are likewise the cause of all sins, the plotters of all treasons against God, the Panders of all other lusts; so much the Apostle Iames expresseth,¹ When lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin; lustful thoughts being conceived in the heart, they soon bring forth sin, breaking forth into acts of filthiness and uncleanness.

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3 Consider, that by our thoughts especially, will the Lord judge us at the last day,¹ When he will make manifest the counsel of the heart, as the Apostle expresseth it. And Rom. 2. 16. God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ. Then the swarms of our vain and evil thoughts shall be discovered, and laid open, to our eternal shame, before God, Angels, and men, without true and unfeigned repentance.

3 Consider, that by our thoughts especially, will the Lord judge us at the last day,¹ When hee will make manifest the counsel of the heart, as the Apostle expresseth it. And