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Direct. 2. Get good Books into your house; when you have not the spring near you, you will get water into your Cisterns; when you have not that wholesome preaching that you were wont to have, good books are the Cisterns to hold the water of life to refresh you. When Davids natural heat was taken away they applied warm clothes to him, 1 King. 1. when you find ⟨p. 8⟩a chilness upon your soul, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply your selves with warm clothes, get these good Books that may furnish you with such truth as may warm and affect your hearts.

Direct. 2. Get good Books into your house; when you have not the spring near you, you will get water into your Cisterns; when you have not that wholsom preaching that you were wont to have, good books are the Cisterns to hold the water of life to refresh you. When Davids natural heat was taken away they applied warm cloaths to him, 1 King. 1. when you find ⟨p. 8⟩a chilness upon your soul, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply your selves with warm cloaths, get these good Books that may furnish you with such truth as may warm and affect your hearts.

Direct. 3. Have a care of your company, take heed of having any unnecessary familiarity with sinners. We cannot catch health from one another, but may soon catch a disease: the disease of sin is very catching, Psal. 106. 35. I would be as much afraid to come among wicked men, as I would be to come among them that have the plague. If we cannot make others better, let us have a care they do not make us worse. Lot was a miracle that kept fresh in Sodoms salt waters. Take heed of the occasions of sin; evil company they are an occasion to sin. Tis observable that the Nazeri•e in the old Law as he might drink no wine, so he was forbid to eat of the grape wherewith the wine was made,