A Sermon on I A M x s r. Yerfe 22. L VVE begin with this, that Saint lames, in faying, 'Be not hearers • The Ahdviu. . 9nely this he faith : IJ3e hearers, but not onely bearers. beyed" 1 Be ••rtrs, ' b b l fl·11 ' •• ers too: ut, e !earers 1 • ·- For, in dealing with Scriptures that confifl ofNegati-ves bycompari-· fon (not hearers,butdoersl and fuch likc:)we had needwalkewarily: Mat. u; :~. and (as.che_S,boolemen fay) r.efolve them cum~rano falis, !ell we caft out · ' cne 'De)JtU wstlJ ano(btr, as the manner offome xs: the devil! ofhearini,on. ly, with thede)Ji/1 of not hearing at all: And fo, tbd4Jl error pro)le worfe Mat. 17. 64. tbant~efirJl.. We mufl ~ake heed we preferve both,bothbearing and doing; Mat•13. :3. each, mthetr feverall rtght: and fodoethe former, that the latter welea11e 11ot undone. · Verfe r9. . For;Saint lames, by opening our hands todoe,hath no meanirtg to iliut our eares, to beare : by wilhing us to fall todoing,he willeth us not eogive :r. over bearing: by bringing in thelatter, taltetfntot away theformer. But (as I faid) to hold on ourbearing llill onely with thiscaution, that we reckon not that for all, or to be the thingfo/y or wboUy to be intended by us. This being feene unto, to heate on, as we did. -· For, he that had (two Verfes before) willed us tobefwift to heart; he that (the very next Verfe before) meeltely to recei)le the 1l!ord : he could not pofsibly fo foone forget himfelfe, as to have any fuch meaning. No cer– "tainly, he had given it the honour ofthefirll place, and his purpofe is not .to. take it a\Vay againe, . Deur. 4:1. GoD from heaven fo began His Law with hearing :·heare Tfrael~ Mat. 1 7·5. G0 D from heaven too; fo began, His Gojpell; nu ir my belowd Sonne, beare Him, So GoD began, and fo mull: webegin, or elfe wee begi'n wrong. . And, not begiit onely,but cotltinue llill bearing: For fo doth the Apo~ fi le comment on the place ofthe Pfolme (To day if you 111iO bedre His rvoice) Pral.gf·7· 1 11 d d Heb.I3·3• that by today, ismeant'Doneccognominaturhodie, whi e itisca e to a;, Andtomorrow, and every day (when it comes) iscaOeataday :fo thac,ta day is all the dayes ofour life. . The teafon ofwhich our continuall beingbearers, is the contm~all necefsttyof/Jearing ofthe Word of Go D. Which necefsity our Sa)llour CHR 1sT Himfelf.: fetteth downe, in exprelfe termes, [peakingofMa– I.uc. 10 ' 34 • ries choice, to fir and !Jeare hu ll>ords, f'num eft necejjarium; One ofthene: · ce.!Jary things it is, and forfuch we may boldly affirme it. . What chat necefsity is He eels us when He cals it the key ofknoll/· ' .. Luc. 11 . 5 :.ledge. That there is adoorefhut . this is the key: noopemng, no en· Rom.1o.I4· trance without it. none at all. For 6Juomodo pojfunt (faithSaint Paul) • 1 ""'- Ho111_
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