BUT because to shew a sinner the danger of his Disease, without prescribing him the Remedies that may contribute to his Recovery, would be but to give him a perfecter knowledge of his wretchedness, and prove a Truth as uncomfortable to him as an Ignis fatuus to the benighted Traveller that has lost his way, whose horrid light serves not to guide, but to affright the Wanderer: I think it not amiss in the ensuing Directions to cast the Swearer a few Cords, by which (if they be carefully laid hold on) he may happily be drawn out of that deep and dangerous Pit of Sin, into which his Negligence or his Corruptions may have betray’d him. Nor let the courseness of these home spun Lines divert you from making them Instruments of your Rescue; for Silk and Satten Ribbons, you know, are not so proper to draw men out of Pits, as homely Hempen Cords: Nor did the imprison’d Prophet refuse to be drawn up out of the Dungeon, tho by the help of old cast (Jer. 28. 11, 12, 13) clouts and rags: Since in cases of this nature, ‘tis not the Value nor the Fineness of the Instrument, but their Fitness for our Purposes, that we ought chiefly to regard. But to begin without more Circumstance.