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Wherefore as you value your Soul, as you tender your everlasting Salvation, and desire to be owned by the Lord in the day of your distress, take heed of pride. Go quickly, and humble your self, and make sure your Friend; labour to pull down every high Thought, and every proud Imagination; and let your Arrogant Spirit how before the mighty God, there is no way will do but this; as ye have already heard: You must set the Crown upon the Lords head, you must lay your selves at his feet, and lick the very dust. Your betters have done so before you, and have thought it their honour to lye at the feet of Christ; this they looked upon (as with good reason too) as the first step to preferment. If therefore you would be acquainted with God, take heed of pride.

Wherefore as you value your Soul, as you tender your everlasting Salvation, and desire to be owned by the Lord in the day of your distress, take heed of pride. Go quickly, and humble your self, and make sure your Friend; labour to pull down every high Thought, and every proud Imagination; and let your Arrogant Spirit how before the mighty God, there is no way will do but this; as ye have already heard: You must set the Crown upon the Lords head, you must lay your selves at his feet, and lick the very dust. Your betters have done so before you, and have thought it their honor to lye at the feet of Christ; this they look'd upon (as with good reason too) as the first step to preferment. If therefore you would be acquainted with God, take heed of pride.

Secondly, Take heed of a worldly mind. What concord is there between Earth and Heaven? What agreement between God and the World? What delight can his Holiness take in him, who had rather be wallowing in the Mud, and treading of Clay, then bathing himself in ⟨p. 358⟩Divine contemplation; that thinks it higher preferment to sit by his bags of Gold, then to stand in the presence of his God: a greater happiness to be rich, than to be holy; that had much rather be in a Fair, Marker, or Exchange, getting money, than with his God, getting Pardon, Grace and Heaven. How pregnant is the Scripture of proofs for the evidencing of this truth? to name one or two of a hundred,