They have not yet learned the true Christ, and what his righteousness
is; neither have they a sense of their own insufficiency; but are
bold, proud, presumptuous, self-conceited. And therefore, take

THE FIFTH DIRECTION.--_Do not thou be too much in looking too high in
thy journey heavenwards_. You know men that run a race do not use to
stare and gaze this way and that; neither do they use to cast up their
eyes too high; lest haply, through their too much gazing with their
eyes after other things, they in the mean time stumble, and catch a
fall. The very same case is this; if thou gaze and stare after every
opinion and way that comes into the world, also if thou be prying
overmuch in God's secret decrees, or let thy heart too much entertain
questions about some nice, foolish curiosities, thou mayst stumble and
fall; as many hundreds in England have done, both in Ranting and
Quakery, to their eternal overthrow, without the marvellous operation
of God's grace be suddenly stretched forth to bring them back again.

Take heed therefore. Follow not that proud, lofty spirit, that,
devil-like, cannot be content with his own station. David was of an
excellent spirit, where he saith, "Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor
mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in
things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a
child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned
child." Do thou _so run_.

THE SIXTH DIRECTION.--Take heed that you _have not an ear open to
every one that calleth after you, as you are in your journey_. Men
that run, you know, if any do call after them, saying, 'I would speak
with you,' or, 'Go not too fast, and you shall have my company with
you,'--if they run for some great matter, they use to say, 'Alas! I