the catholicon for all graces, which is prayer. Think not to gain uprightness by the power of your own might: but in the sense of your insufficiency, repair often to God by prayer; even to him who made your heart, in whose hands your heart is, who best knows the crooked windings and turnings of your heart, who only can amend and rectify your heart; who, because he delights in an upright heart, and has commanded you to seek it in the humble use of his means, will assuredly give it. Thus prays David; Renew, O Lord, a right spirit within me; Psa. li. 10; and, Let my heart be sound in thy statutes, Psa. cxix. 80.

CHAPTER XII. OF LAWFUL CARE, AND OF FREEDOM FROM ANXIOUS CARE.

When you have thus exercised a holy care to walk with God in uprightness, according to the foregoing directions, it remains that you free yourself of all other care, and that you rest holily secure in God: enjoying your most blessed peace with him, according to the divine direction. Be careful for nothing, &c. Phil. iv. 6, &c.

The care which is commanded, and carefulness which is forbidden, differ thus:

Lawful care is an act of wisdom, whereby after that a person has rightly judged what he ought to do, what not, what good he is to pursue, and what evil is by him to be shunned, or removed; he, accordingly with more or less intention and eagerness of mind, as the things to be obtained or avoided are greater or less, is careful to find out, and diligent to use lawful and fit means for the good, and against the evil, and that with all circumspection; that he may omit nothing which may assist him, nor commit any thing