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 When Gods afflicting hand is upon thee, consider for what Sin especially thou hast often been reproved, either by the motions of Gods Spirit, or by the admonitions of his Ministers, or by the checks of thine own Conscience, and yet hast refused to reform the same; thereupon suspect that Sin in special to be the sin at which the Lord aimeth in thy present affliction;¹ for it is usual with God to proceed from words to blows, to make us give more diligen• […] thereunto.

4 When Gods afflicting hand is upon thee, consider for what Sin especially thou hast often been reproved, either by the motions of Gods Spirit, or by the admonitions of his Ministers, or by the checks of thine own Conscience, and yet hast refused to reform the same; thereupon suspect that Sin in special to be the sin at which the Lord aymeth in thy present affliction;¹ for it is usual with God to proceed from words to blows, to make us give more diligen• 〈…〉 thereunto.

1. 1A verbis ad verbera pro reditur Deus.

5 Be earnest with God in Prayer, that he would help thee in this search, that he would discover and make known unto thee the Sin,¹ or Sins at which he especially aimeth; thus did Job, Show me, saith he, wherefore thou contendest with me; i. e. for what Sin or Sins thou dost thus afflict me. And afterwards he cries out in his afflictions, Make me to know my transgression, and my sin. ²In like manner do thou in thine affliction fly unto God by Prayer, beseeching him to show unto thee wherefore he doth so contend with thee, and to make known unto thee what is thy transgression, and thy sin, that hath provoked his displeasure against thee.