Serm. 19. in holy Duties ? 463 diftei to the World fo will his mufings be,if to mirth and good chear and wain forts, his thoughts will be taken up about them, if to the inordi- nate love of women, his fancy will be rollirgupon carnal beauty, and he will be tying his heartwith unclean thoughts. 5. Want of love to God and holy things; men are loath to come into Gods prefetace for want of Faith,a.nd to keep there for want of love;love fixeth the thoughts, and dryeth up thole fwimming toyes and fancies that do diftraá us, we ponder and mute upon that in which we delight, were our natural hatred of God and of the means of Grace, changed into a perftEt love, we fhould adhere to him without dillraclion, we fee where men lovefrongly they are deaf and blind to all other obj.fts, they can think.and IPeakof no other thing,but becaufe our love to God is weak every vain occafton carrieth away our minds from him,you find this by daily experience,when your aff eélions flag in an ordinance your thoughts are foon fcattered, vrearinefs maketh way for wandring,our hearts are firft gone and then.our minds; you complain you have not a fetled mind,the,fault is,you have not a fetled love, for that would caufe you to paufe upon things without we arin:fs, Pfal. i . 2. His delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in that Law doth he meditate day and might, Pfal. 119. 97. 0 how I love thy Law, it as nay meditation all the day, David's mind would never run upon the Word fo much,if his heart were not there, thoughts are at the command and -beck of love, where /eve biddeth themge they go,and where love biddeth them tarry they tarry, the Saints firfl delight and then meditate. 6.Slightnefs and irrtverence,or want of a fenfe of Gods prefenee,a care- lets (,)irit will furely wander, but one deeply a ffelled is fixed and intent, yonah when he prayed in the Whales belly, could he have an heart to forget his work ? Daniel when he prayed among the Lions, could he mind any thing elfe ?when we are ferious and pray in good earnefl, we will call in all our thoughts and hold them under command. This Quueflion was put to Baf,l, how a man fhould keep the mind free from diftraftron, hisAnfwer was,* yíyrfra, ó zsdetoth(9- arnú Tç àr y +us 3 rii) E 1 in Regs- 7Lj ì :onstas (.csi Znei+vcu Tv Z-66Y 4 Æ' -P4PO Tcc xop tts xj kptses. That is; that lu brevieribne, this evil came from flightnefs of heart, and unbelief of Gods pretence, for if a man did believe that God were before his eyes fearching the heart,and trying the reines,he would be ferious,all things are naked & open to him, with whom we have to do ; God looketh on, and fa do the Angles, he looketh on the heart, and will not you be ferious ? Schollars that have a ertwantly wind, yet the pretence of their Mailers forceth them to their Books; the Great Cod who relict?) man his thought, he feeth,our de fires end -
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