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As for the First, viz. Wherefore it is, that I do press this advertisement: and indeed it is not without very good ground, as ye will easily perceive, if, First, Ye look to and Consider the best Saints and in their best condition: how soon are even they taken off their feet? Was not David often in a very good spiritual condition? And yet, how soon and foully did he fall into folly? was not Adam in a good and desirable condition, when there was no quarrel betwixt God and him, nor any ground for it? And yet how soon was he ensnared? Was not Peter in a good state and frame, when Christ said to him, Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona, flesh and ⟨p. 165⟩blood hath not revealed that unto thee, but my Father who is in Heaven? And yet within a very little, he turns again so far to folly, as to be the devils instrument to tempt Christ: as is clear from Matth. 16. vers. 17. Compared with vers. 22. Were not the Disciples in a good condition, when our Lord had Preached to them both the Preparation & thanks-giving Sermons, before and after the Communion? And yet they all were offended because of him, and forsook him and fled, And that very quickly, even that same very night; Now when such tall Cedars fall, what need have we, who are but in comparison, silly shrubs and but as small straws, to take warning. Secondly, If we consider that those sins and falls were often exceeding Sudden, the same night, in the Disciples (as I just now hinted,) and in Hezekiah, very quickly after his recovery: exceeding foul; and exceeding Universal, as in all the Disciples; Sometimes repeated, as in Lot, Jehoshaphat, and Peter; sometimes a plurality and variety of them joined together, as in David and Asa, and in his People at the Red-Sea and in the Wilderness: And who knows but the same very night, that ye were at the Lords Table, some of you were back at your folly? And others of you before night may be. We said, not only Suddenly, but foully; as is clear in Adam, who when he had no corruption formerly, fell from God to the devil (and by the way, many of you are so grossly ignorant, and woefully self-conceited: that ye think, if ye had been in his case, ye would not have done so.) And (as I hinted) what foul faults were Davids Adultery and Murder, and Solomons Idolatry, at least his tolerating it, after God had spoken twice to him?

As for the First, viz. Wherefore it is, that I doe presse this advertisement: and indeed it is not without very good ground, as ye will easily perceive, if, First, Ye look to and Consider the best Saints and in their best condition: how soon are even they taken off their feet? Was not David often in a very good spiritual condition? And yet, how soon and foully did he fall into folly? was not Adam in a good and desirable condition, when there was no quarrel betwixt God and him, nor any ground for it? And yet how soon was he ensnared? Was not Peter in a good state and frame, when Christ said to him, Blessed art thou Simon Bar-jona, flesh and