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<P>A Threefold Alphabet OF RULES CONCERNING <HI>Chri&s;tian Practice.</HI></P>
<P>The fir&s;t Precept of every Letter con|cerning Duty towards God; the Second towards our Neighbour; the Third towards our &s;elves. Ga|thered at a Friends reque&s;t in this Order for the helping the memory.</P>
<P>Revi&s;ed and approved for Dr. <HI>Thomas Taylor</HI>'s own Collection, by<HI>William Jemmat</HI> Mini&s;ter at <HI>Reading</HI></P>
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<P><HI>Gla&s;gow,</HI> Printed by <HI>Robert Sanders,</HI> One of His Maje&s;ties Printers, 1698.</P>
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<HEAD>A threefold Alphabet of Rules concerning Chri|&s;tian Practice, &amp;c.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="A" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>A</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. AWake with God in the morning, and before all things give him your fir&s;t fruits and calves of your lips, in 1 Confe&s;&s;ion of &s;in, 2. Petition of nece&s;&s;aries for body, and &s;oul. 3. Thankfulne&s;s for mercies received; e&s;pecially your late pre&s;ervation, re&s;t, and protection of you and yours.</P>
<P N="2">2. Account it not enough that your &s;elf &s;erve God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 24.15. P&s;. 101.2. Gen. 14.14. &amp; 18.19.</NOTE> unle&s;s that you &s;ee all in your charge do the &s;ame.</P>
<P N="3">3. Arm your &s;elf again&s;t what|&s;oever the day may bring forth;<NOTE PLACE="marg">E&s;t. 4.15.</NOTE> and upon all occa&s;ions think on your happy Re|demption, with much thankfulne&s;s for &s;o happy conjunction of Iu&s;tice and mercy,</P>
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<DIV2 N="B" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>B</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Beware of occa&s;ions of &s;in, and wi&s;ely inure your &s;elf in &s;ubduing the lea&s;t, that at length the greater may be foiled.</P>
<P N="2">2. Believe all that God &s;peaketh unto you out <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">f his word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Sam. 16.16. Eccle&s;. 3.7.</NOTE> but not all that man <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">elleth you: nor tell to any other <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">ll that you hear, but only the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters">uth, and that neither all, nor always.</P>
<P N="3">3. Before you take in hand any <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters">ing coun&s;el with Gods Word it be lawful,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 2.19. 2 Sam. 2.1. 1 Sam. 30.8.</NOTE> and then perform with prayer, that it my be as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters">cce&s;sful as lawful.</P>
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<HEAD>C.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Carefully &s;et your &s;elf in Gods pre&s;ence all the day long, that &s;etting him at your right hand you may not fall.</P>
<P N="2"><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10.32. Col. 4.5:</NOTE>2. Carry your &s;elf unto all as the weak may be won, the &s;trong comforted, and the Wicked a+&s;hamed.</P>
<P N="3"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 15.10. Ep. 4.23.31: Col. 3.5.8.</NOTE>3. Con&s;ider the dignity of you<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;oul, how beautiful it is to Go<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> and his Angels, &s;o long as yo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> keep it un&s;potted, that &s;o you ma<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> clean&s;e your heart from the fir&s;t motions of &s;in+ful thoughts, as lu&s;t, anger, envy, pride, am+bition, covetou&s;ne&s;s, &s;ullenne&s;s: and the rather, becau&s;e the lea&s;t &s;in de&s;erveth death.</P>
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<HEAD>D.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Dayly, morning and evening at lea&s;t, &s;o+lemnly on your knees make confe&s;&s;ion and re|que&s;ts with thank&s;giving: fir&s;t preparing your heart to &s;eek the Lord: In the morning thin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> that y^e day may be your la&s;t day, &amp; when you g<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> to bed, you know not whether you &s;hall ri&s;e, un+le&s;s it be to Iudgement. It is &s;afe therefore t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> u&s;e prayer as a Key to open the morning, and as a bar or lock to &s;hut in the evening.</P>
<P N="2"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 6.10.</NOTE>2. Delight to do all the good you can to Gods Children; and to receive all the good you can from them.</P>
<P N="3"><NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Chr. 16:3.9.12. 2 Cor: 3.5. 1 Cor. 3 7. Rom. 1.25.</NOTE>3. Di&s;tru&s;t not Gods pro+vidence in any matter, al+though you &s;ee the means wanting, neither when you have them, let them be relied on more than God him&s;elf, but let him be praye<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> unto for the pro&s;perous u&s;e of them.</P>
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<HEAD>E.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Exerci&s;e your mind in meditating often on the works of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 12.2. Hab. 1.13. Mat. 25.31.</NOTE> as his creating and governing of the World, his pro&s;pering and puni&s;hing the wic|ked, his ble&s;&s;ing and correcting his children, his preparing of un&s;peakable Ioy for the one, and unutterable torment for the other; but e&s;pecially on the Sabbath day,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Exodus 20.8.</NOTE> add to the&s;e meditations the holy exerci&s;es of prayer, preaching, Sacraments, holy conference, and &s;uch like.</P>
<P N="2">2. E&s;teem of every one better than your &s;elf,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 12:16. Phil. 2.3.</NOTE> and the more you excel another, be &s;o much the more humbled.</P>
<P N="3">3. Examine your thoughts well,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 14.23 Prov. 6.14. Z<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ch. 8.17. P&s;al. 49.3.</NOTE> whether they tend, before you fulfill your own de&s;ires; if you find them unprofitable, curious, vain, or &s;uch as you cannot yield a &s;ufficient rea|&s;on to God or man for, kill them in the &s;hell, let them not live or breath longer in you.</P>
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<HEAD>F.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Fear God and keep his com|mandments;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccl. 12.13.</NOTE> for this is the whole dutie of man.</P>
<P N="2">2. Fly and avoid places and per|&s;ons,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pov. 5.8. &amp; 6.27.28.</NOTE> infectious, wanton, idle, un|thrifty and bad company, which are to the &s;oul as poy&s;oned &amp; infected air to the body.</P>
<P N="3">3. Follow with faithfulne&s;s and diligence your own bu&s;ine&s;s,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccl. 1.13. Gen. 3.19. 2 The&s;. 3.6.</NOTE> in the lawful and particular calling wherein God hath placed you; only be careful in your earthly bu&s;ine&s;s to carry an heavenly mind.</P>
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<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 92.13.14.</NOTE>1. Grow up dayly in the practice of every commandment, and in the Faith of every promi&s;e of God; &s;eeing God would have the planted in his hou&s;e, thrive, well liking and more fruitful in their age: he that is not be&s;t at la&s;t, may fear whether ever he were good.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 10.31. Rom. 14.13.</NOTE><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">. Give no offence ju&s;tly unto any man whether within or with|out: for wo to them by whom of|fences come.</P>
<P N="3"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 7.18.19.24</NOTE>3. Grieve for nothing in the World &s;o much as for your own &s;ins, and in them for nothing &s;o much as for offending &s;o loving a God, and that not only in committing of evil, but al&s;o in omitting of good.</P>
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<HEAD>H.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor 11.31.</NOTE>1. Humble your &s;elf for your &s;ins, that the Lord may rai&s;e you up; for he that judgeth him&s;elf aright, &s;hall never be judged of the Lord,</P>
<P N="2"><NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Pet. 2.17.</NOTE>2. Honour all men in their places, but no man <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o much for his great|ne&s;s as for his goodne&s;s, and thus &s;hall you imitat the Lord him&s;elf,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 10.35.</NOTE> who accepteth not per&s;ons, but in e|very Nation accepteth him that feareth him.</P>
<P N="3">3. Have &s;pecial care to avoid the &s;ins which you have found your &s;elf mo&s;t inclined unto, and which have in times pa&s;t mo&s;t prevailed: for &s;in is loth to be &s;aid nay, and Satan &s;eeketh re|entry.</P>
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<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Iu&s;tifie Gods wi&s;dom in all his proceedings concerning your &s;elf and others; his Power in
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&s;u&s;taining, his providence in maintaining, his Iu&s;tice in puni&s;hing, his Love in correcting, his Faithfulne&s;s in performing, his Grace in giving, his, bounty in promi&s;ing his Mercy in taking a way; every thing &s;ay from the heart,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 1.21.</NOTE> ble&s;&s;ed be the Name of the Lord.</P>
<P N="2">2. In every company receive &s;ome good, and do &s;ome al&s;o to your power; leave no ill &s;avour behind you, neither do hurt by &s;peech, &s;ilence, countenance, or example: in your prai&s;es be di&s;creet, in &s;aluting courteous, in admoni&s;hing brotherly; and wi&s;e in moving and entertaining &s;peech or conference.</P>
<P N="3">3. It is fearful to &s;in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 51.3: Eph. 4.26.</NOTE> but much more to ly in it: and therefore regi|&s;ter all your &s;ins dayly, bewail them at fit times, pray for pardon of them, and &s;trength again&s;t them: contemn none as counting it little, becau&s;e Gods law hath condemned it; and Chri&s;t hath died for it, or el&s;e mu&s;t you eternally.</P>
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<HEAD>K.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Know God in Chri&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 17.3. P&s;al. 2.12.</NOTE> which is life everla&s;ting, ki&s;s the Son of God le&s;t he be angry, and know your &s;elf to be a Believer, and that Chri&s;t is in you, and you in him.</P>
<P N="2">2. Keep as your vows with God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 15.4.</NOTE> &s;o your lawful promi&s;es with men: for faith and truth mu&s;t ki&s;s each other in Chri&s;ti|an conver&s;ation.</P>
<P N="3">3. Keep out wandring and worldly thoughts as much as po&s;&s;ibly may be, narrowly watching your heart; for, &s;uch as you &s;uffer that to be, &s;uch will be your words, deeds, and whole conver&s;ation.</P>
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<HEAD>L.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Love all things for Gods &s;ake, and God
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only for his own; and look you make him your friend, who&s;oever be your enemy for it: this you &s;hall do, if as an obedient child, you live in the eye of your heavenly Father.</P>
<P N="2">2. Look upon the lives and behaviour of the wicked to avoid them; of the godly to imitate them; upon the life and death of them both, as al&s;o your own not far of, to make you loath this world, and long after the life to come.</P>
<P N="3"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 11.34. Rom. 13:13:</NOTE>3. Let your meat, drink, apparel, recreation, be lawful, needful, and mo|derate.</P>
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<HEAD>M.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 28.58. Matth. 7.12.</NOTE>1. Make not mention of God, or any word or work of his, but with fear and reverence: nor of any man but with love and carefulne&s;s, u&s;ing his name, as you would have him to u&s;e yours.</P>
<P N="2">2. Mark other mens profiting in Religion to provoke your &s;elf, their &s;lips, to make your &s;elf more wary, their ri&s;ings, to be thankful to God for them.</P>
<P N="3">3. Meditat<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter"> often upon the four la&s;t things, 1. Death 2. Iudgement. 3. Heaven. 4. Hell.</P>
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<HEAD>N.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Never make &s;hew of more holine&s;s outward|ly, than inwardly you have in your heart which God &s;eeth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 12.</NOTE> in which h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> de&s;ireth truth; nor plea&s;e your &s;elf with your unprofitablene&s;s, unfitne&s;s or unwil|lingne&s;s to good.</P>
<P N="2">2. No man is owner, but &s;teward of tha<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> he hath, you mu&s;t therefore impart of the ble&s;|&s;ings you have, to tho&s;e that &s;tand in need, wi&s;ely, heartily, and in due &s;ea&s;on.</P>
<P N="3">3. Note your own &s;pecial corruptions whether they grow &s;tronger or weaker,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 11.28.</NOTE> and
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how your &s;elf can re&s;i&s;t them:<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ro. 12.12.</NOTE> and if any a&s;&s;ault you more &s;trongly, pray, and make the matter known to God: The be&s;t way for a Woman &s;ollicited to folly, to be red of the tempter is, to tell her husband.</P>
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<HEAD>O.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Often &s;peak to the prai&s;e of God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pr. 27.2. &amp; 10.19.</NOTE> never of your &s;elf. For other things, becau&s;e many words want not iniqui|ty, &s;peak as few as you can, or rather none than unprofitable.</P>
<P N="2">2. Open not your mouth to &s;peak of other mens infirmities,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jam. 1.19.</NOTE> e&s;pecially behind them;<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;. 15.3.</NOTE> nor before them with|out grief and &s;orrow.</P>
<P N="3">3. Of every idle word account mu&s;t be given, and much more of every wicked word,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 12.36; Col. 4.6.</NOTE> and therefore let your &s;peech be gracious, poudred with &s;alt, and tending to edification.</P>
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<DIV2 N="P" TYPE="part">
<HEAD>P.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Prai&s;e the Lord for every new benefit be&s;towed,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5.18.</NOTE> and then by it pro|mote his glory, the Churches good, and your own &s;alvation; e&s;teeming of graces given as &s;purs to godline&s;s, and pledges of eternal life.</P>
<P N="2">2. Prevent anger before it kindle;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccl. 7.9. Pr. 14.17.</NOTE> it is wi&s;dom to quench the le&s;t &s;parkle of fire before it begin to flame. Con|&s;ider 1. The original of anger, being pride or &s;elf love. 2. The cur&s;ed fruits by giving place to the devil. 3. Gods patience. 4. Gods image in your Brother. 5. Your own weakne&s;s in the &s;ame kind. 6. The wrong is not remedied by revenge, but enlarged; nor the wrong doer amended, but imitated.</P>
<P N="3">3. Prepare your &s;elf for death,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 15.56.</NOTE>
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and pull out his &s;ting by 1. Bewailing &s;ins pa&s;t. 2. Turning to God in time to come. 3. Purpo|&s;ing a new life. None can die ill, that hath had a care to live well. Per&s;wade your &s;elf, if you live well, you &s;hall die well; but if you die well, doubt not but you &s;hall do better.</P>
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<HEAD>Q.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Quiet your heart, and be &s;till under the correcting hand of God, becau&s;e 1. He doth it.<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 39.9.</NOTE> 2. For your be&s;t. 3. He will moderate it. 4. Supply &s;trength. 5. Sea&s;onably deliver out of it.</P>
<P N="2"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 5.44. Rom. 12.20.</NOTE>2. Que&s;tion not whether others &s;hould do you good, or you them fir&s;t: it is prai&s;e worthy, to be fir&s;t in well doing: and if you do good to your ene|mies, your reward is with God.</P>
<P N="3">3. Quench not the Spirit, nor &s;uffer any good motion ari&s;ing in your heart to pa&s;s away,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The&s;. 5.19.</NOTE> but feed it by reading, meditation, prayer and practice.</P>
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<HEAD>R.</HEAD>
<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 1.2. Deut. 6.6.</NOTE>1. Read daily &s;omething of Gods Book for the encrea&s;e of knowledge and con&s;cience; and add hereto medi|tation and prayer; for the&s;e three &s;aith Luther, make a Divine: all time thus &s;pent, is well redeemed. As for la&s;civious and idle Books, &s;hun them as rocks.</P>
<P N="2">2. Rejoyce in the good you know by another; prai&s;e God for it, pray for the encrea&s;e of it, but if you know any evil by any, mourn for it, and if you can by brotherly admonition amend it.</P>
<P N="3">3. Refrain your ears, eyes, mouth and hands,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Job 11:1. P&s;. 119.37.</NOTE> from hearing, &s;eeing, &s;peaking or performing any wicked and vain thing; knowing that death often entereth in at the windows.</P>
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<P N="1">1. Stick to God as well in adver&s;ity as pro&s;peritie;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ja. 1:2.</NOTE> the one being as nece&s;&s;ary as the oth<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">r. If you want nece&s;&s;aries, humble your &s;elf for them; if you have them, be humble with them; and u&s;e them well, le&s;t you &s;urfeit them.</P>
<P N="2">2. Seek reconciliation with your neighbour,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 5.23. P&s;al. 35.14.</NOTE> freely forgiving tho&s;e that have offended you, and earn|e&s;tly de&s;iring to be forgiven of all that have been offended by you.</P>
<P N="3">3. Study to approve both your heart to God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 23.25. Jer. 7.9.10.</NOTE> and your life to Gods Children in your particular calling, and e&s;pecially to &s;uch as to whom God hath joined you;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 5.33. and 6, 5, 6.</NOTE> as if a &s;ervant in obeying, if a ma&s;ter in ruling, if a Husband in loving, if a wife in reverence; for a good con&s;cience, a good name, and good manners mu&s;t go together.</P>
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<HEAD>T.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1. Take heed of performing holy duties for fa&s;hions &s;ake,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Heb: 3:12: I&s;a: 1:1<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">: Mat: 15:8:9</NOTE> or without feeling and profit, for this is Hypo|cri&s;ie or prophane&s;s.</P>
<P N="2">2. Thankfully requite, at lea&s;t with 1. Acknow|ledgement. 2. Hearty affection.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom: 1:12: &amp; 12:10: 1 Cor: 11:25</NOTE> 3. Prayer, the good you get by any man, for there is no member in the Body, but &s;tandeth in need of other mens gifts.</P>
<P N="3">3. Think it the greate&s;t work in the World to die well: which to do, you mu&s;t inure your &s;elf to die before hand. 1. By dying to your &s;ins. 2. Leaving the World in affection, before it actually leave you. 3. In your la&s;t leaving of it, do it willingly, yea joyfully, when&s;oever, where&s;oever, or how&s;oever God &s;hall call you.</P>
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<P N="1"><NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccl 35:34: P&s;: 116:14:</NOTE>1. Vow to God and keep it; e&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">+cially &s;trive in performing the &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter">+lemn vow of your Bapti&s;m, and the Covena<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> which you renew in the Lords Supper.</P>
<P N="2">2. Variance and di&s;cord wi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> men will not &s;tand with your pea<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> with God.<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Joh: 4:20:</NOTE> If you love God, yo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> will love men al&s;o, for Gods Image; or el&s;e f<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> his Commandments &s;akr.</P>
<P N="3">3. V&s;ed the worl as not u&s;ing it, and yo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> pro&s;perity and liberty to be bettered by them. That is not gained,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor: 7:3<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> Mat: 16:2<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> which is gotten with the lo&s;s of your &s;oul, and then is the &s;oul exchanged with an handfu<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the world, when it is not gotten and held. <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1+ letters"> In Chri&s;t re&s;toring it. 2. With Chri&s;t the chi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="2 letters"> gain. 3. For Chri&s;t the Lord of it.</P>
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<P N="1">1. Wait upon the Lord, and he will direct you<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> way;<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al: 37:7:</NOTE> become his &s;ervant, for this is <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> way to attain your true&s;t liberty.</P>
<P N="2">2. Weep with them that weep, and fellow fee<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> the afflictions of the brethren y^t are in the world Chri&s;t in heaven accounteth the &s;ufferings of hi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> Saints his own, and we his mem+bers upon earth mu&s;t do the &s;ame Religion and mercy are well mat+ched by God,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 12:15: Jer: 24; 17: P&s;alm 69:9:</NOTE> and mu&s;t not b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 letter"> man be divorced; as for the mi&s;e+ries and &s;ins of the Age wherein you live,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezekiel 9:4:</NOTE> mourn al&s;o for them, and pray to God for remedy.</P>
<P N="3">3. Wi&s;h not a long life, &s;o much as a good life; he hath lived long, who hath lived Well A &s;hort life in grace, &s;etteth into the everla&s;ting life of glory.</P>
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