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 If thou art assaulted, resist sin in the beginning; Do not dally with temptations, as the Fly with the flame of a Candle, lest thou be burnt before thou be aware; neither do thou suffer Sin to grow and increase, but rather withstand the first beginnings thereof, and if possibly nip it in the bud.

2 If thou art assaulted, resist sin in the beginning; Doe not dally with temptations, as the Fly with the flame of a Candle, lest thou be burnt before thou be aware; neither doe thou suffer Sin to grow and increase, but rather withstand the first beginnings thereof, and if possibly nip it in the bud.

3 If thou beest overtaken with any sin, labour to recover thy self with all possible speed, by true and unfeigned repentance. Be sure thou do not live, nor lye impenitently in the practice of any Sin against thy Conscience, for so long thou wearest the Devils Livery, and art a stranger to true peace.

3 If thou beest overtaken with any sin, labour to recover thy self with all possible speed, by true and unfeigned repentance. Be sure thou doe not live, nor lye impenitently in the practice of any Sin against thy Conscience, for so long thou wearest the Devils Livery, and art a stranger to true peace.

4 Being recovered, take heed of relapsing; A relapse is dangerous in bodily diseases, much more in spiritual; Christ saw this to be a needful caveat, therefore he gave this advice to a Woman taken in Adultery,¹ and forgiven, Go and sin no more; yea the same advice he gave to the poor Cripple, whom he healed at the Pool of Bethesda, ²