On I Peter 3:10-11 --
"Means to evil may be these, 1. Labor to understand the ten Commandments, and so what is good and what is evil. 2. Labor for faith, which purifieth the heart from evil, even the affluence of Gods love to us, which may work in us love to his Majesty, and to an hatred of all evil. 3. A sanctified heart, the inseparable companion of true faith. 4. Attend on Gods Ordinances publikely, the Word and Sacraments, and in private use meditation, conference, prayer, &c. 5. Watch and pray, that we enter not, neither be led, into temptation. 6. Make we a Covenant against evil, as Job and David. 7. Call to minde the fearful wrath of God, and the wages of sin, and the examples thereof on many, both in Scripture and our own experience, as also the hour of death (when it will trouble us and be heavy on our conscience) and the day of Judgement, when and where we would be loath to meet with it."
-- John Rogers, 442.
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