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…

5 Often have recourse unto God by fervent prayer, as against sin in general, that he would be pleased to keep thee from falling thereunto, so especially against those particular sins which thou findest working and stirring in thee, and with which thou art most molested, earnestly begging power and strength from God, that thou mayest be enabled to stand in the day of temptation.

5 Often have recourse unto God by fervent prayer, as against sin in general, that hee would bee pleased to keep thee from falling thereunto, so espe•ially against those particular sins which thou findest working and stirring in thee, and with which thou art most molested, earnestly begging power and strength from God, that thou maist be enabled to stand in the day of temptation.

II. As thou must watch against Sin in general, so likewise against the several sorts and kinds of sin. A,

I. Against thy beloved Sin;¹ for there is none of us all but we have in us our darling and beloved Sin, our own Idol (as I may say) whereunto we many times do service, to the great offence of Almighty God.

I. Against thy beloved Sin;¹ for there is none of us all but wee have in us our darling and beloved Sin, our own Idol (as I may say) whereunto we many times doe service, to the great offence of Almighty God.

1. 1Peccatum in deliciis, as Aug. calls it.