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…

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, ²backed with a strong reason, saying to him, Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. Which doth not imply, that a man may keep himself pure, and free from all sin; but that he ought with the best care, and greatest watchfulness that he can, endeavour to keep himself pure and free from all sin, especially from enormous sins▪ which in an high manner provoke the Wrath of God. Though therefore thou hast obtained the pardon and forgiveness of thy former sins, it concerns thee to be watchful against sin for the time to come, otherwise thou art in great danger of relapsing into the same sins, if not worse; whereby thy last state will be worse than the first.

4 Being recovered, take heed of relapsing; A relapse is dangerous in bodily diseases, much more in spiritual; Christ saw this to bee a needful caveat, therefore he gave this advice to a Woman taken in Adultery,¹ and forgiven, Goe and sin no more; yea the same advice he gave to the poor Cripple, whom he healed at the Pool of Bethesda, ²backt with a strong reason, saying to him, Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee. Which doth not imply, that a man may keep himself pure, and free from all sin; but that hee ought with the best care, and greatest watchfulness that hee can, endeavour to keep himself pure and free from all sin, especially from enormous sins▪ which in an high manner provoke the Wrath of God. Though therefore thou hast obtained the pardon and forgiveness of thy former sins, it concerns thee to be watchful against sin for the time to come, otherwise thou art in great danger of relapsing into the same sins, if not worse; whereby thy last state will be worse than the first.