The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…

Secondly, I shall offer thee somewhat that is ⟨p. 61⟩directive. And know Reader further, that there is no other medicine in the World, which can possibly cure thy wounded dying soul, but that which I have from God to prescribe thee; throw away this, or neglect the rules in applying it to thy sores, or advise with flattering mountebanks, and thy lamentable condition will be irrecoverable, thy dreadful estate will be desperate. I shall not like an Empiric try new tricks or remedies, on thy bleeding gasping soul, but give thee that receipt (consisting but of two ingredients) which the great Physician hath left in Writing under his own hand, and which thousands have experienced to be effectual for their cure, whose souls are made thereby at this hour (as his body in the Gospel) every whit whole.

Secondly, I shall offer thee somewhat that is ⟨p. 61⟩directive. And know Reader further, that there is no other medicine in the World, which can possibly cure thy wounded dying soul, but that which I have from God to prescribe thee; throw away this, or neglect the rules in applying it to thy sores, or advise with flattering mountebanks, and thy lamentable condition will be irrecoverable, thy dreadful estate will be desperate. I shall not like an Emperick try new tricks or remedies, on thy bleeding gasping soul, but give thee that receipt (consisting but of two ingredients) which the great Physician hath left in Writing under his own hand, and which thousands have experienced to be effectual for their cure, whose souls are made thereby at this hour (as his body in the Gospel) every whit whole.

Pride, or an Ambitious desire of self sufficiency, and self subsistence, was the stone at which man at first stumbled, and fell into the bottomless pit of matchless misery, it was the fatal Knife, which cut the throat of his glorious hopes and happiness; the wise God therefore like a tender Father in mans recovery, takes special care to lay these Weapons out of the Children's way, by which they had wrought themselves such woe. Hence it is that he hath chosen those two graces to make us happy, and carry us to himself, which speak us to be most beggarly, and carry us most out of our selves. Faith and Repentance. Faith teacheth us to deny our selves, as utterly weak, and Repentance causing us to abhor our selves, as altogether unworthy. Repentance discovereth our nakedness, and obnoxiousness, thereby to shame and suffering; and Faith telleth that our own rags