The truly blessed man

2 Do you maintain a War against it? Is it to you a deadly Enemy, and that which you are wrestling with, fighting against continually? it makes many furious assaults upon you, and gains sometimes very unhappily in you, but you do not subject your selves to it, but recruit again, and combat it. Do you find this Spirit in you Lusting against the flesh, and all its deceits, and doing its utmost to destroy it?

3. Do you daily Repent of the eruptions of it? There are too awful breakings out of this Corruption of yours; you see it, and find it, but how do you resent it? Do you say it is your infirmity, and you cannot avoid it, and make no more of it? that is an ill sign: but if you are indeed in the work of Mortification, every discovery of it brings you upon your knees, fills you with bitterness, drives you to Repentance, and so the work goes on continually.

USE III. Let it be to Exhort the Children of God, to be more and more in the practice of such a Spirit. Have you it in you? Endeavour that it may more powerfully influence your whole Conversation, that you may express your sincerity in all that you have to do with: And to move you Consider;