andperpetu~ll quzde. no manner of purpofe to live and continue in any one finnewhatfoever; but is readiean~ refolved, though it be muchcu~bredwith it owne corrup– tions,theWorlds enucements,and Sa thans craf- . tine!fe ; yet to ferve and plea[e God, in all the wayes of his Commandements,and that fincere– ly and continually. All profitable and fruitfull hearers have fuch good and honefr hearts, and are refembled by the good ground, Luke 8. Is. But that is a wicked and Gnfull heart,and not fit to be wrought upon by the Mini!l:erie of the Word, which purpofeth and refolveth to cheri(h and rnaintaine but aQy one finne wharfoever. - Fourthly, our hearts mull: be feafoned with .Faith; otherwife, it will not linke and foake into them with power and profit. The old !ewes · heard theWord, but it profited them not, becauft it wM not mingled with faith in thofr that heard it, Hr!J 4·%. The fearefull rbreatnings and thunder– bolts of the Law, by Faith receive an edge to wound, and pierce and fl:rike through our foules, wir.hamazements and trembling. And Faith it is) that animates and infpires the promifes of the Gofpel with fuch a fovcra.igne fweetneffe, and powerfull comfort; that they are able;not onely to rayfe and revive us from the depth and extre– mitie of remorfe, and feare ; but alfo to put us · .L,• 4 Faith, • 1 int<? a Paradife of fpirituall pleafures,and poffef: fion of Heaven, as it \Vere alreadie. But if the ·,Word light upon a faitbleffe heart; it dyes, it : ,does no good. . • · Fifthly,..wee muft bringwith us into tbe Lords ~ ' San6tuarie, 'feaebable· neife.
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