every desire of having more is that covetousness which is forbidden 64. Though what the Law commands be impossible to corrupted nature yet the Spirit of Jesus makes in an easie yoke § 64. And in fine although that which the Law requires be impossible to the flesh because of sin which hath weakened it nevertheless when GOD gives the Good Spirit of Jesus Christ to a Soul it doth then by his assistance or rather the Spirit of Jesus Christ doth then in that soul all that the Law requires Without doing which none can as yet pretend to the Spirit of Jesus Christ neither doth any as yet belong to him as his Child nor as justified by him Rom 8.3 4 9. Nor as having true faith which doth not make void the Law but establish it Rom 3.30 By which also we keep the Commandments of GOD in overcoming the World Joh 5.3 4. And which in fine admits us into a communion with GOD in the Light and into a state out of which we cannot partake in the merits of Jesus Christ and of his Death Since If we say than we haue fellowship with GOD and yet walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth But if we walk in the Light as he is in the Light we have fellowship one with another and then the Blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin saith St. John 1 John 1.6 7. § 65. The Will of GOD as to that we must practise 65. Portions of Scripture particularized which contain the Gospel Law the perusal whereof must be specially recommended to young ones is also set down very particularlie and in brief in the 5 6 and 7 Chap of St. Mat And in the 13 14 15 and 16 of St. John and in the first Epistle of St. John and St. Peter All which must be made very familiar to young ones together with the great Psalm of David by the reading one Section whereof we may alwayes shut up the reading of the mentioned portions of Holy Scripture To these we may also joyn Thomas a Kempis § 66. All the Laws of GOD which are so wholsome 66. An Abridgment or short summ of the Divine Laws which must be very carefully imprinted on the hearts of Young Ones and so admirable whereof David speaks so often with so much love and admiration which all the Scripture recommends as the source of life as the light of the heart as the Treasure of Souls which Jesus Christ calls Eternal Life Joh 12.50 And which in fine the Holy Spirit promised Writes in the heart where he dwels say all the Laws of GOD may be reduced to these four 1. To Love GOD. 2. To Love Jesus Christ Crucified that is not only himself but also his Cross and his Tribulations the fellowship of his Afflictions conformity to his Death and the fulfilling of what is behind of his Sufferings in our flesh 1 Cor 2.2 Phil 3.10 Col 1.24 3. To love our neighbour 4. And to hate our selves The whole of our duty is truely comprehended under these few heads Therefore it is that we must take pains to inspire the Veneration and love of them into the hearts of Children so to say into the Marrow of their bones from their tender years and to animate them thereto by Prayer by meditation and by the dayly reading of that incompareable Psalms of David which hath been already mentioned as also by the application of those excellent words of his in the 19 Psalm The Law of the Lord the Law of the love of God of the Cross of Jesus Christ the love of our Neighbour and the hatred of self This admirable Law when it is imprinted on the Heart by the Holy Ghost Is a Law that is intire perfect converts the Soul The Testimony of the Lord is sure and makes the simple even little Children wise The Commandments of God are right rejoycing the Heart The Statutes of the Lord are pure and they enlighten the eyes of our soul The fear of the Lord is the source of Holiness it is the only good that shall endure for ever The Judgement of the LORD are true and Righteous altogether more are they to be desired than Gold yea then much fine Gold sweeter also then Hony and the Hony-comb By them is thy servant enlightened and in keeping of them is a great reward § 67. It will be also very profitable 67. Children must be put in mind of the Baptismal Covenant as also of the advantages and duties of it and even necessary to represent unto Children that at their Baptism they entered into a Covenant with GOD who on His part hath promised to be their GOD that is to say to give himself Father Son and Holy Ghost unto them with all his good things and with all his graces whereof then they have received the first fruits which they should take care not to loose by their sins and by an Antichristian conversation especially considering that they also on their part have reciprocally promised unto GOD to be entirely his and to give and consecrate unto him for ever their Souls and their bodies their desires their understandings their pleasures and their Joyes their actions and their whole life together with a filial obedience to all the expressions of his most Holy will and an absolute and full renounciation of self and sin of the Devil and the World thus ratifieing in substance all those things which we have hitherto insisted on and which none can neglect without renouncing his Baptism and Christianitie § 68. I suppose that all the World knows well enough the most common rules concerning what Young Ones ought to practise with respect to God 68. What Young Ones must practise their Parents their Neighbours themselves things which ought to be inculcat very carefully on them by reason that such is the Will of God As § 69. 1. With regard to God 69. 1. With respect to God To live and to act as being alwayes in the presence of God who together with all his Holy Angels still looks on us and who will make to come into his Judgement whatsoever we have done spoke or thought whether Good or evil in order to be rewarded or punished for it for ever To pray unto God orderly Evening and Morning and before Meals To make them often lift up their heart to God particularly before any labour or imployment in order to obtain his Assistance and Blessing and after they have finished their work to return Thanks to God for it and offer it up to Him and to His Glory To hear with respect and Attention the Divine Truths whether in private or at Church without thinking that they have sufficiently discharged their Duty to God for having simply heard them or retained them in their Memories and that therefore they ought to pray unto God that he would give the true Understanding of them and by the Operations of his Good Spirit
practice of the Parents that so by means of their Holy examples and diligent instructions and by the Blessing of GOD upon their Pious Endeavours these great Truths may be savingly imparted to and inculcated on their Children The Pious Author having been importuned by a Great and Worthy Friend of his to give directions how to mannage aright the Education of Children though for some time he declined to comply to this request Yet in end he was prevailed with to impart his Thoughts but still without any design of making them publick till at last it was concluded that it would greatly serve the interests of all Conscientious Instructers of Youth to have such an excellent Help put in their hands The Author addressed these Directions to his Friend in the Form and confined himself to the Bounds of a Letter whereby he was obliged not to draw out his Thoughts to any great length and so gives but the Elements or first principles of a Christian Education However the principles which he hath laid down as they are True and Genuine so they are Fertile and Comprehensive and capable to suggest to all attentive and penetrating Minds whatever is necessary to be known on this head But since few will be at the pains to make such Improvements of them and because some do stand in need of more dilated and ample Accounts Therefore the Reader may e're long by the Divine Blessing and Assistance expect a full and Copious System of Directions on the Subject of a Christian Education Which however are but Deductions from and Enlargements on the Principles here laid down In this larger Account the faults and miscarriages committed in the Education of Youth are declared particular Directions are given how to mannage this great Concern in all the instances of it to the best Advantage Powerful Motives are adduced to perswade Parents and all others concerned in the Religious Education of Youth to put what is recommended to them on this head in practice And in fine a great many excellent necessary and yet little observed Truths are through the whole insisted on Mean while Christian Reader Converse with these Principles read and digest them They deserve some of thy most recollected Thoughts and thou shalt never I hope have cause to repent of imploying a few of thy moments in turning over the following pages and that thy Reading may profit and edifie thee I shall begg pardon before I close to entreat a few things of thee One is That thou Read with closs Attention and not content thy self with a superficial glance Next that thou do not reject what thou dost not at first understand but vouchsafe it a review And in fine and especially that thy Perusal be attended with a serious Disposition for otherwise all will be to little purpose nay I must plainly tell thee that if thou art not resolved to deny thy self to take up the Cross and follow Christ some things here will choak thee For corrupt Nature will fly in the Face of what grates hard upon it and pinches it And the old Man cannot endure to be roughly treated But on the other hand if thou designes to be a votary of the Spirit Cross of the Holy Jesus if thou art one that worships God in Spirit and places Religion not in outward Formes and Circumstances but in Righteousness Peace and Purity in Life and Power Then what is here offered to thee will prove savory and relishing and the more the Truths here presented to thee will choak and contradict thy corrupt self Still the more agreeable they will be And thou wilt find such solid pleasure and Tranquillity in the practice of them thy self that thou will be prompted to propagate and recommend them to all others on whom thou canst hope to have any influence And O may the Good GOD turn the Hearts of the Fathers unto the Children and the Hearts of the Children to their Fathers and the Disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just * Mal 4.6 Luke 1.17 And Second with his effectual Blessing and Grace whatever is sincerly designed to serve the Interest of Souls AMEN THE Authors Advertisement TO THE READER FAthers and Mothers and all you to whom the Education of Children is intrusted if you understood well the Importance of that Charge you would easily discern that all your other Affairs your Imployments your Businesses your Concerns your Goods and your Care to get them and to keep them are but nothings or but meer triffles in comparison of it The least of these Souls whereof you are oblidged to take care is of such a Value that the Son of GOD hath esteemed it more than his own Life Your work is to educate them for Heaven or for hell and accordingly if you educate them well you shall together with them as a Recompence of your Labours enjoy a happy Eternity or endless miseries if you neglect them even though otherwise you may have lived unblameably as to your own Persons without mentioning any thing of the curses of this Life which fall on such as do not fairly acquite themselves of this duty The holy Scripture lets us see that the high Priest Eli though otherwayes a Good Man yet not having effectually enough resisted and curbed the wicked inclinations of his Sons was punished for it with Death both he and his Children the whole people routed the Ark taken and all his priestly Family exterminated It is to be feared that the Callamities which overwhelm Christendome owe their Original also to this For Men do not take care to educate their Children by any other principle but that by which they have begotten them I mean by the impulse of a purely carnal Concupiscence whereas they ought to be acted in the whole from a Principle of Divine Love which prompts and influences us to desire that there may be yet other Creatures with us which might joyn and unite with us in Eternally Loving and Honouring the Majesty of GOD. But alace this is it of which Men take but very little thought and there are but few who seriously design to form Creatures who professing and living agreeably unto the great Name of Christian in this World should be worthy of GOD and his Eternity here after Since the following Letter Aims only at this design it was believed that to render it publick would be a beneficial Performance and greatly tend to the Advantage of whosoever will incline to make the designed Use and Improvement of it whether with respect to Children or also with respect to themselves how aged soever they may be Because in effect the Truths that are contained in it are of so comprehensive and extended an Use that at the bottom they do no less agree to the adult and aged for all their Life throughout than to Children for their first years And since according to the Words of JESUS CHRIST We must become little Children in order to inherit the Kingdom of GOD Since the Perfection which the
own nothingness from our weakness from our own injustice wickedness ignorance and such like For example wherefore did GOD Creat the World To manifest his Power his Wisdom and his Goodness Wherefore did he make Man For that very same end and withall to shew him and give him his Felicity and his Glory Wherefore doth man die By the Justice of GOD It being Just that since man did abuse his life it should be taken from him Wherefore are the good afflicted by sickness or any other way Because since they have been formerly guilty of some sins the Justice of GOD so orders it that they should be rather corrected for them in this temporal life then in the other which is Eternal Wherefore on the other hand doth good oftentimes befal the wicked here below By the goodness of GOD who sweetly invites them to his love or also by his Justice who will give them in this life the recompence of any little good they may have done in it Whereas in the other life they shall be Eternally punished for the sins in which they have lived without forsaking them And so as to all other things even the most material and visible We must make them understand for example that wars fall out because that GOD is Just and that men and their wickedness deserve to be punished We must tell them that the fire is warm by the reason that GOD is good and that knowing that man hath need of heat that he may live he hath by his goodness given him the fire with such a quality that the fire burns and causes pain by the Justice of GOD who makes use of this creature as a Rod for the chastising of men who have sinned And as to moral things we ought to do the same and tell them for instance that we must obey our Parents and Superiors in this and in that because it is the will of GOD That we must not value our selves nor desire that others should esteem us because GOD only deserves that as being only Wise and only good and that we are but Weakness but ignorance but folly and wickedness of our selves that we must not wish nor render evil to those who do evil to us because GOD wills that we should do as he doth who alwayes doth us good and even then when we offend him that we must not disesteem Judge nor dishonour our Neighbour because GOD alone will be his judge and that it is his Will that we should love others as our selves that we are too ignorant to know the hearts of others and too perverse to Judge favourably of them or without passion and so of the rest 40. The happy advantages of this Method § 40 If we did imploy every day some moments to exercise after this manner the reason of young Ones we would very soon accustom them to see GOD in every thing to have him alwayes before their eyes and to walk continually as in his presence There is nothing in this World whether Divine Humane Natural or Political Histories whether Sacred or prophane whereof we might not very easily make them reduce all the causes and all the particular events with their reasons to these admirable Principles of the Power Wisdom Goodness truth Justice Felicity Glory Holiness and Will of GOD and to the weakness ignorance inconstancie and malignitie of Man This besides that it would render GOD alwayes present to us would moreover wonderfully serve to rectifie reason after a most solid and saving manner providing that we did it imploring with sincerity and humility the Grace and Blessing of GOD. We might begin to make some Essay of it on an History of the Scripture For instance on the Historie of the selling of Joseph which is in the Book of Genesis or on some Historical Chapter of the Gospel § 41. III. Since the Imagiination 41. III. The imaginatione of Young Ones must be early improven as well as the Memorie is that which hath most strength and most activitie in Young Ones we shall do well to improve them very soon that by this way also we may communicate unto them as much of the knowledge of the things of their Salvation as is possible and as they are then capable of 42. A necessarie caution All the notices of Divine things which we receive by the imagination are but verie dark and imperfect images § 42. But it is good to let them understand before hand that all the knowledge they shall acquire after this manner is but very gross and very obscure Pictures of Divine things whereof they do not know by that the hundred thousandth part not even the least part as realie it is in it self because that the things of GOD have by millions of times more perfections then we are able to comprehend of them untill that in process of time and after that we have constantly prayed unto GOD and done his will he dispel and chase away our gross and dull way of knowing and then make us see the pure beautie of his truth This shall hinder these little Spirits from curuing their first thoughts unto obstinate prejudices and it will dispose them to teachableness and to the expectation of the Light of GOD. § 43. 43. This may be exercised in Young Ones three wayes 1 By reading and leting them see the resemblances of Sacred histories We may exercise their minds in this respect 1. By reading and even by the sight of some representations of the Histories of the Holy Scripture to the end that so their memorie and their imagination may be filled with Holy Images And we must at the same time accustom them to reduce that which they shall read or see at least the principal heads to the Divine principles which we have alreadie recommended § 44. 2. By the explication of the Creed 44. 2. By acquainting them with the importance and meaning of the Belief which they ought to learn by heart and on which we ought to discourse with them according to their capacitie 1. Of GOD the Father and the Creatour of his Perfections Power Wisdom Goodness and the rest of his Works as well Spiritual as Corporal as well these that are dureable and Eternal as these that are Temporal and transient 2. Of GOD Incarnat or of the Son of GOD JESUS CHRIST of his works which concern our redemption And 3. of the Holy Spirit whose works regard the restitution of man to his first Estate 45. Where three things must be recommended to their notices § 45. And on this head it will be profitable to oblige them to remarke two or three things of great importance 1. GODS Gracious designs and conduct with respect to man both in his Creation and Redemption which is the substance of the whole One is that all that is in the Creed doth issue and result in this principle Viz. that GOD the Almighty and the Creator of all things did make man to the end that
man turning all his desires and his will towards his GOD GOD should fill his mind with his Divine knowledge and his Soul with His Joy and with His Felicitie and Eternal Glory but man having turned away his desire and his will from GOD and so having rendred his mind ignorant and his Soul unhappy and miserable for Eternitie GOD did assume our humane nature and live and die amongst us not only to merit for us the pardon of our wickedness and the Divine Grace but also to demonstrate unto us by his Doctrine and by the examples of his Life of his Death and of his Resurrection how we ought to renounce our evil desires to forsake and make to cease and die our own will and to resume new and Divine desires a will Holy and living unto GOD the which the Holy Spirit imparts unto the soul together with an illuminated Vnderstanding and a Divine Peace and Joy whereby we are reunited with all that which is Holy as well on Earth as in Heaven enjoying in this Holy Society and Communion the Spiritual Grace and benefites of JESUS CHRIST here in time to the end that after the death of the body and then after its Resurrection we may live together Eternalie and Gloriously with GOD. § 46. 2. A second thing which we ought to oblige them particularly to remember 46. 2. Another thing they must be made seriously to observe is the conversation of Jesus Christ in our humanitie as designed for our imitation is how JESUS CHRIST in His Birth in His Actions in His Life and His Death hath managed and conducted the faculties of his Soul and particularly his desires and his Will as well in turning them from evil from the natural inclinations of our mortal humanitie from the esteem of himself from the search of pleasures of the commodities and good things of this World by self denyal by disgrace by lowness by povertie by sufferings and an unrepining acquiescence in all as in turning and yeelding unto GOD these same Desires and will of his not desiring any thing but GOD doing nothing but his Divine will in every thing and adhering alwayes to him by praises and continual Prayer by which his Vnderstanding obtained all the Divine Lights which he demanded of his Father in whose good pleasure he also placed all his Joy 47. They must be taught that the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost mentioned in the Belief are but one GOD and that this Glorious mystry is incomprehensible § 47. We may in the third place on the subject of the Holy Trinity tell them in a few words that the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost whereof mention is made in the Belief and in the Scripture are not but One only and the same GOD as in us to give some resemblance of this great Mystrie the desire the understanding and the Joy or pleasure of the Soul are but one only Soul and not three That the difference that is among them doth not hinder the Unity of the Divine Nature which is the same and one in all but that this difference is such in GOD that no reason nor humane light neither can nor ought to endeavour to comprehend it That we must believe it with reverence on the Testimony of the word of GOD without knowing it otherwayes waiting untill it please GOD to make us see something of it that will be more clear whether in this life or the other and in the mean time contenting our selves to represent unto us according to our weak capacity GOD the Father as the Author of all good things the Father and Just Judge of our Souls GOD the Son as the Redeemer of the World and the inlightener of our Souls that are ignorant and fallen into darkness and the Holy Spirit as GOD the Sanctifier of hearts and filling with the love of GOD the Souls which had been corrupted by self-love and by sin Or yet moreover GOD the Father as good and the principle of goodness who hath Created all things by the communication of his goodness GOD the Son as Just and the principle of Justice who was incarnat to render us Just who were made unjust by sin GOD the Holy Ghost as the principle of Truth who opens and who illuminates the mind that it may comprehend the truth of Spiritual and Divine things 48. What it is to know the Holy Trinity in a Divine saving maneer § 48. In fine they ought to be made remember on this occasion that the true knowledge of Divine things depends on the living operations of the Holy Spirit in the inward man as hath been already asserted and consequently that the knowledge of the Holy Trinity to the end that it may be Divine and saving must be produced by him in us after the same manner And such it shall certainly be if this knowledge issues in a living representation of the most Holy Trinitie after the image of which we were likewise Created as also if the same knowledge terminates and results in the love and imitation of GOD so vigorously recommended by St. Paul Be ye followers of GOD as being his dear Children and walk in love even as CHRIST hath loved us Eph. 5.1 2. For every one that loveth saith St. John is born of GOD and knoweth GOD But he that loveth not knoweth not GOD nor consequently the Holy Trinity for GOD is love 1 Joh 4.7 8. So that whosoever saith that he knoweth JESVS CHRIST and keepeth not his Commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him saith the same Apostle Chap 2. V. 4. So then an infallible mark that we truely know the Holy Trinity and that we confess savingly the Father the Creator the good and the powerful is when we love him with fear obedience and respect when we confidently resign our selves to his Power and divine providence and when we represent and follow his Goodness towards all and in every thing We know and confess savingly the Son the Redeemer and the Just one when we live as being delivered by him from this present evil world Gal 1.4 And when we give up our selves to the practice of Righteousness 1 Joh 2.29 And we know and confess savingly the Holy Spirit the Sanctifier and the Spirit of Truth when we give up our selves to Holiness without which none shall see nor consequently ever know livingly the LORD Heb. 12.14 And when we follow the truth in Love Eph. 4.15 Such a knowledge of the Holy Trinity as this is is not an ideal operation of our Humane Reason but a true and real production of the Holy Spirit since the fruits of the Spirit saith St. Paul are goodness Righteousness and Truth Eph. 5.9 But when we reject either all these things or even some of them we do then in effect deny GOD and his Divine Trinity which we do not confess but with the mouth only or by some vain and dead acts of barren reason so as the
others by a Spirit of Humility without design or desire that men should esteem or Honour us and by a Spirit of Penitence without regarding our own satisfaction whither of Soul or of Body but aspiring after a conformitie to the Crucified JESVS and dying in our own account on the Cross without any consolation This is the true Spirit of the Christian Life and practice and of true Christianity a Spirit wholly opposite to that of corrupted nature by which alas Men suffer themselves to be drawn sweetly and as it were laughing unto Eternal perdition without ever thinking on it The will of GOD is that we should do nothing but in order to please him His pleasure is to be glorified by our Salvation His Glory ought to be our Soveraign absolute Universal end and we ought to look on our Salvation as a mean to advance this end of Blessing Praising and Glorifying for ever his Divine Majestie The Glory of GOD is advanced in this life when we give place in our hearts to the force and vertue of JESVS CHRIST and when we suffer his Power and his Energie to beget by us a great many Holy actions for which we have Just ground to Honour Bless and Praise the Divine cause that is the Power and the Efficacie of GOD whence such excellent things do issue which contains in it self infinitly more of them He who abides in me saith JESUS CHRIST and in whom I abide brings forth much Fruit for without me ye can do nothing And herein is my Father Glorified that ye bring forth much fruit Jo. 15.5 8. And elsewhere Let men see your good works that they may Glorifie your Father which is in Heaven Matt. 5 16. This may and ought to be extended to all sorts of actions and things because whatever we do ought to be done for the Glory of GOD and because nothing can be well done but in the Name that is by the Power by the Blessing and by the Direction of JESUS CHRIST Whether ye eat or drink or whatsoever ye do do all to the Glorie of GOD. 1. Cor. 10.31 And whatsover ye do in word or in deed do all in the Name of our LORD JESVS CHRIST Col. 3.17 Thus for instance we eat and drink for the Glorie of GOD in the Name of JESUS CHRIST when we do it from a Principle and in a way communicate and taught us by him and which prompts us to say from our very heart Suffer me not O LORD To eat and drink only as do the Beasts by a meer brutal appetite and for a life only natural And much less in following the disorders of our corrupted natures But grant that by the Power and by the direction of the Holy Spirit of Thy Son JESVS CHRIST I may eat and drink according to thine appointment so much as is necessary for the maintaining of a life which I will imploy in loving thee in blessing thee and in obeying thee in following by thy grace the life of our Redeemer Just so we speak to the Glory of GOD and in the Name of JESUS CHRIST when we seek from him and receive from him the force and grace to say nothing but what is regulated by him but what is necessary and what is proper to suggest good thoughts to men and to turn them from evil and vain things In a word we do all in the Name of Jesus Christ and to the Glory of GOD when having sought before all things the Divine Grace and Vertue of Jesus Christ we do by it and according to the Will of GOD from a Divine Motive and to a Divine End whatsoever we have to do following that admirable lesson of St. Peter Let every one of you according as he hath received the Grace Gift of GOD make use of it for the Good of others as being faithful dispensers of the manifold Grace of GOD. If any man speak let him do it as delivering words flowing from the Virtue of GOD if any one doth service to others let him do it as acting by the Power which GOD gives To the end that in every thing we do God may be glorified by Jesus Christ to whom be Praise and Dominion for ever and ever 1 Pet. 4.10.11 § 63. The Will of GOD is marked in his Commandments 63. The Will of GOD which is the Rule of our Obedience is made known to us on his Precepts which must be taught Young Ones first in the literal then in the more Sublime and Spiritual Import of them which we must cause Young Ones learn and which we must explain unto them at first according to the Letters and as their Capacities will allow And afterwards when they are capable of it we must make them understand that the Law being Spiritual God by his Commands enjoyns us 1. That we love nothing but Himself alone and for His sake only 2. That we do not think that GOD is like to the thoughts and the imaginations that our dark reason and judgement make us apprehend of him Nor that the way of serving and pleasing of him is the work of our own will and of our own fancie 3. That we do not make use of his Name of his Covenant of his Knowledge of his Grace of being the Children of GOD in vain and without profiting by them and bringing foth Fruits agreeable to them and that we take head that we do not cloak our self will our passions our designs our carnal ways and even our wickedness and crimes under the sacred preteâ—ts of the Name of GOD of His Truth of His Justice of His Glory and of his Interest 4. That we must cease labouring acting and living by our own will to the End that GOD may Labour and Work and Live in us and by us 5. That we ought to Honour the Word the Will and the good Inspirations of GOD by which He would beget us Spiritually and make us new Creatures who may live long on the Land which He shall give us that is enjoy Life Eternal 6. That we ought not to Kill in us the Image of GOD take away the spiritual Life from our Souls by our sins nor kill the Soul of our neighbours by the examples of an Heathenish worldly and wicked life 7. That we ought not to serve our selves of any creature for meer pleasure without necessity and without having allowance from the will of GOD This is that which constitutes the Whooredom of of the heart Jam 4.3 4. 8. That we ought not to steal from GOD to whom every thing doth appertain either our affections or our life or our time or goods or labour in imploying them any other way then for him 9. That of our selves and without the Light of GOD we ought not to Judge of any person For otherwayes being as we are in darkness we will Judge falsly and sin grivously against GOD. 10. That being content with what we have we ought not to desire any more for