284. Attending public Inftruc`tion, S ER M. If all men upon earth fhould prefs us to XI. what, upon the belt inquiry we can make, - appeareth difagreeable to his will, we ought to forfake them and follow him ; if our pre - fent intereft, and the mofl importunate in- clinations of the flefh, fhould direct us one way, and he another, we muff renounce them, and cleave to him. I come, in the Third place, to confider the proper dif- pofitions of mind, and 'the manner of hear- ing and ufing all means, fignified by watch- ing daily at the gates of wifdom, and wait- ing at the pofts of her doors. And, frfi, it importeth a fenfe of our, confiant need of inflru &ion, that we may be Rill making farther progrefs in knowledge and in grace. It is not enough that we have once entered into the courts of . wifdom, and are lifted among her votaries, that we have given a refpedful attention to her laws, and even obeyed them ; there is a neceßïty of re- newed continual application ; and that, un- fatisfied with the prefent meafure of our at- tainments, we fhould daily endeavour to make farther proficiency. The wifeft and bell men are moll: fenfible of their defeéts, and therefore, after the example of Mofes and David, they inceffantly pray that God would
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