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10 faults, but lament over the ſins of your relations, neighbours, and the places ye live in. Acts xvii. 30. Job xxxiv. 32. Pſalm 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: till your ſouls be purged of theſe, ye cannot expect the 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, baudy-language, fornication, and all uncleanneſs, deriding or mocking true godlineſs, or wiſhing evil to the godly, &c. For becauſe of theſe things cometh the wrath of God on the guilty. Eph. v. 3, 4, 5.

Exh. 18. Keep out of ill company, bad examples corrupt good manners: Think ſhame to converſe familiary with openly profane and debauched perſons; this will neither be for your credit, comfort, nor profit; rather chuſe