rules for the governing of your good thoughts being gotten, I shal think I have discharged my duty in this un∣dertaking, according to the measure of the gift of God bestowed upon me, for the edifying of his Church.
And that I may stir up your pure minds to this great Work of governing your good thoughts being gotten, Consider:
1. Its honourable and praise-wor∣thy, for a man to govern his own thoughts well: It was Salomons praise, that when God bid him ask and have: that leaving out riches, and long life, and honour, out of his petition, as things lesse desireable, he did earnestly desire,
Lord give thy servant an under∣standing heart to judge thy people.
1 Kin. 3. 9 It is no lesse praiseable in a Christian being made a king over a state as disordered, as people, as mutinous,
viz. his thoughts, and having the same promise which
Salomon had, to ask and receive, and particulary to ask wisdom of God who gives it,Jam. 8. if he beg of God that wisdom which is from above, whereby his heart may be guided to settle his disordered