and perpetua!Njuide. . \ 141 Thus fa-rre I hav~ propofed unto you ~ome Motives, to quicken and ftirre yon up to a conw fcionable and confl:ant hearing and underftanding of the holyWord ofGod ; and acquainted you with many fleights, lets, and temptations, which Sathan ufually cafb in our way, to hinder us t-herein. - · N·ow, in athird place, I will lay dmrne unto you cerraine rules, direCtions, and inftru.8:ions, for your right, holy, and confciona~Ie carriage, behaviour,and imporcment,in and about the hea~ ring of GodsWord. · ' T·hat theholyWord of Godmaybe untoyou the WordofGrace, the favour of Life unto Life, of powerunto fancrification and falvation j you mull looke carefully and confcionabiy unto your preparation, before you come ; unto your car– riage,while you are there; and unto your behavi– our,aftenvard. Firft, for Preparation. · I atl] perfwadecl, thewant and negieclof a due and pro£i table preparation, is the caufe that thou– fands receivenobenefit or bleffing by theVVord of Life ~ but that the Sermons they heare, are·re~ gifl:red, as in a Table of Remembrance, before 1 Preparation required to profitable hea– ring. God, as fomanywitneifes againfl: them, for their For want of more fearefull confufion and greater condemna- preparation, theWord he- . tion at theDayofAccounts. .. . ~ For hence it is)that to many it is the favour of death unto death; becaufe, before theycome, theydoe not addreffe and prepare themfelves for fo glorious a Prefence, and royall Emba!fage (1) from comes tomen, I The favour of death unto death.
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