REmember alwaies that the world is the enemy of your salvation, and that if you be damned, it is like to be through its enticements; and therefore labour to be al∣waies sensible that you go in continual danger of it. And this will make you use it as an enemy, and walk in a constant fear least it should over-reach you. And see also that you endeavour as clearly as you can, to find out wherein its enmity doth consist; and then you will perceive that it is especially in seeming more Lovely then it is, as it is the fewel of concupiscence, and the provision of the flesh. And when you understand this, you will perceive, that your danger lyeth in over-loving it, and that it killeth by its embracements: And this will direct you which way to bend the course of your opposition, and what you must do to be saved from its snares: To call the world an enemy is easie and common: but so far as your very hearts apprehend it as an enemy, so far you are out of danger of it: An easie enemy that is conquered by understanding that it is an enemy! And the way of its conquest is, by enticing men to take it for a friend.
And also remember, how great a part of your Christian life consisteth in keeping up the com••ate with this enemy, and how certainly and miserably you will perish if you be overcome.