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…

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.

For the better discovery whereof take these few directions.

1 Observe which way the stream of thy thoughts run, especially thy morning thoughts, whether after the world, or this or that lust, for Where the Carcass is, there will the Eagles be gathered together; whatsoever thy beloved Sin is, upon that will thy morning thoughts most hover; so that if worldliness and covetousness be thy beloved Sin, thy morning thoughts for the most part will be upon the ⟨p. 27⟩world, and the things thereof, how thou mayest grow great and rich in the world; if pride and ambition be thy darling and beloved Sin, then thy morning thoughts will be upon thine advancement, how thou mayest •i•e in the world, and if ••clearlness be thy beloved Sin, then thy thoughts, especially thy morning thoughts, will be unclean, thy ead will be taken up with speculative filthiness, how thou mayest satisfy thy just; for this is a sure rule, Every man is what ee is most in the morning. As he that is spiritual hath his morning thoughts upon God, or upon some spiritual and heavenly subje so he that is worldly and unclean, hath his morning thoughts upon the world, and about the satisfying of his carnal lusts.