The trades-man's calling being a discourse concerning the nature, necessity, choice, &c. of a…

1. In maintaining a Religious Frame of Heart. There is the Fountain, there's the Root that must feed all the Branches of a Religious Life. In vain will ye rectify some Disorders in your Actions, unless ye begin your Reformation at the Heart: Make the Tree good, and the Fruit will ⟨p. 198⟩be good. Your great Care must be to get, and keep an holy Heart; that i•,

(1.) An Heart bent against Sin; for any allowed Sin will be a continual Thorn in you Consciences, and a Canker in your Estates. You know who said, I also was upright before him, and I kept my self from my Iniquity; Psal. 18. 23. Consider therefore what Sin it is, to which you are most easily inclined, what Sin you find hardest to resist, what Sin you are loathest to leave, what Sin stared you in the Face in your last Sickness, what Sin your Consciences do pitch upon when the Hue and Cry is sent out in the Ministry of the Word, and what Sin you would most carefully conceal, or at least excuse, (they are excellent Mr. Bolton's Marks) And set your selves against that Sin; for that's the Sin that threatens your utter ruin. It may be conquered, it may be mortified, and you will have more Comfort in its Overthrow, than ever you had in its Tyranny. And,

(1.) An Heart bent against Sin; for any allowed Sin will be a continual Thorn in you Consciences, and a Canker in your Estates. You know who said, I also was upright before him, and I kept my self from my Iniquity; Psal. 18. 23. Consider therefore what Sin it is, to which you are most easily inclin'd, what Sin you find hardest to resist, what Sin you are lothest to leave, what Sin star'd you in the Face in your last Sickness, what Sin your Consciences do pitch upon when the Hue and Cry is sent out in the Ministry of the Word, and what Sin you would most carefully conceal, or at least excuse, (they are excellent Mr. Bolton's Marks) And set your selves against that Sin; for that's the Sin that threatens your utter ruine. It may be conquered, it may be mortified, and you will have more Comfort in its Overthrow, than ever you had in its Tyranny. And,