A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

3. Desire God to show you if there be any thing left that is grievous to his Spirit. Job 34.32. That which I see not, teach thou me. There are many Sins I see, but more that I do not see, Lord, show them to me. So David appealeth to God, who must judg and punish Conscience; Psal. 139.23, 24. Search me, O God, and know my Heart; try me, and know my Thoughts; and see if there be any wicked Way in me, and lead me in the Way everlasting. Can you thus appeal to God, and say, Lord, I desire not to continue in any known Sin?

3. Desire God to shew you if there be any thing left that is grievous to his Spirit. Job 34.32. That which I see not, teach thou me. There are many Sins I see, but more that I do not see, Lord, shew them to me. So David appealeth to God, who must judg and punish Conscience; Psal. 139.23, 24. Search me, O God, and know my Heart; try me, and know my Thoughts; and see if there be any wicked Way in me, and lead me in the Way everlasting. Can you thus appeal to God, and say, Lord, I desire not to continue in any known Sin?

4. When any Sins break out, set upon the mortification of them. Do not neglect the least Sins, they are of dangerous Consequence, but renew thy Peace with God, judging thy self for them, and mourning for them, avoiding Temptations, cutting off the Provision for the Flesh. 1 Cor. 9.27. But I keep under my Body, and bring it into subjection. The Leper was to shave off his Hair; and if it grew again, he was still to keep shaving. Corruption will recoil, but still we must use the Razor of Mortification, tho it be such a Sin as the World taketh no notice of, and others would not make Conscience of.