DIRECTION I.
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DIRECTION I.
Avoid those Ill Frames which are a Step to Witchcraft. There are especially Two ill Frames which do lead people on to the worst Witchcraft in the world. Shun a Frame of Discontent. When persons are discontented with their own state; When persons through discontent at their Poverty, or at their Misery, shall be always murmuring and repining at the Providence of God, the Devils do then invite them to an Agreement with, and a Reliance on them for Help. Down right Witchcraft is the up-shot of it. We find in Luc. 4. 2. our Lord, hungered, and then the Devil came in an audible or a visible manner to Him, tho he had been more spiritually long before assaulting of Him. They are needy persons whom Devils make the most likely attempts upon. And some persons are not only Hungry, but Angry too; but then every Fret, every Fume is as it were a Call to the Devils; it calls to them, Come and help me. Shun also a Frame of Ill-Wishing. There is a Witchcraft begun in the ⟨p. 24⟩