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ment, endeavour to do what is acceptable to God. And keeping in mind the Oracles of Chrift, meditate in the Jofi. 8. fame continually. For fo the Deut. v1. Scripture fays to thee, Thou fali meditate in his Lano Day and Night; when thou walkeft in the Field, and when thou fitteft in thine House, and when thou lyeft down, and when thou rifeft up, that thou mayst have Understanding in all things. Nay, altho' thou beeft rich, and so dost not want a Trades & * * τρέφεις

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Abftain from all the Hea VI then Books. For what haft thou to do with fuch foreign Difcourfes, or Laws, or false Prophets, which fubvert the Faith of the Unstable? For what Defedt doft thou find in the Law of God, that thou fhouldeft have Recourfe to thofe Heathenish Fables? For if thou haft a mind to read Hiftory, thou haft the Books of the Kings: If Books of Wisdom or Poetry, thou haft thofe of the Prophets, of Job, and the Proverbs; in which thou wilt find greater depth of Sagacity than in all the Hea then Poets, and Sophisters, because these are the Words of the Lord, the only Wife God. If thou defireft fomething to fing, thou haft the Pfalms; if the Origin of things, thou haft Genefis; if Laws and Sta- ** Fag. -tutes, thou haft the glorious 235. Law of the Lord God. Do μgv. Πάντων ἦν άλλο- thou therefore utterly abftain τρίων έ διαβολικῶν. from all ftrange and Diaboἰσχυρῶς ἀπόχες. Πλίω lical Books. Nay, when thou

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might deliver thofe that
were obnoxious thereto from
that Wrath which was re-
ferved for them; that he
might fulfil the Law and the
Prophets; and that he might
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are heavy laden, and I will give
you Reft. When therefore thou
haft read the Law, which
is agreeable to the Gospel,
and to the Prophets, read
alfo the Books of the Kings,
that thou mayft thereby learn
which of the Kings were righ-
teous, and how they were
profper'd by God; and how
the Promife of Eternal Life
continued with them from
him. But those Kings which
went a whoting from God
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ing thefe Books thou wilt be
mightily ftrengthen'd in the
Faith, and edify'd in Chrift,
whofe Body and Member
thou art. Moreover, when
thou walkest abroad in
Publick, and haft a mind
to bath, make ufe of that
Bath which is appropria-
ted to Men, left by difco-
vering thy Body in an un-
feemly manner to Women,
or by feeing a Sight not feem-
ly for Men, either thou beeft
enfnar'd, or thou enfnareft
and inticest to thy self those
Women who easily yield to
fuch temptations. Take care
therefore, and avoid such
things, left thou admit a
Snare upon thy own Soul.

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