5. BEsides, by the means of these private Instru∣ctions, we shall come to be the better acquaint∣ed with each persons spiritual state, and so the better know how to watch over them, and carry our selves towards them ever after. We may know the better how to preach to them when we know their temper, and their chief objections, and so what they have Page  318 most need to hear. We shall the better know where∣in to be jealous of them with a pious jealousie, and what temptations to help them most against. We shal the better know how to lament for them and to rejoyce with them, and to pray for them to God. For as he that will pray rightly for himself, will know his own sores and wants, and the diseases of his own heart; so he that will pray rightly for others, should know theirs as far as he may, and as is meet. If a man have the charge but of sheep or cattle, he cannot so well discharge his trust if he know them not, and their state and qualities. So is it with the Master that will well teach his Schollars, and Parents that will rightly educate their children: And so with us.