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 you find you are guilty of, confess them, mourn over them, resolve, by God's grace not to do the like again; have a care your repentance prove not a fighting and going backward: moreover, not only repent of your own faults, but over the sins of your relations, neighbours, and the places ye live in. Acts xvii. 30. Job xxxiv. 32. Psal. cxix 136.

Exh. 16. Mortify and bear down the inward passions and corrupt affections of your heart, such as anger, envy, malice, privy hatred, revenge, lustfulness, covetousness, pride, ambition, and all secret inclinations to impiety; untill your souls be purged of these, you cannot expect hethe [sic] Holy Ghost will dwell in you as a temple. Col. iii. 5, 8 1 Cor. iii 16, 17.

Exh. 17. Keep at the utmost distance from the common sins of the times, from cursing, swearing, drunkenness, stealing, cheating, lying, reviling, furnication, bady-language, and all uncleanness, deriding or mocking true godliness, or wishing evil to the godly, &c. For because of these things comes the wrath of God on the guilty. Eph. v. 3, 4, 5.