._.-_.. 464 Hors may we cure DifrRôtions >F Jofephus e!e &11î Tao. runs. Aùgufáinus quell. i61. in Exec!. -----..: Seriìi. ig; and thoughts fpak Powder in his eares than our words ; therefore pof= fefs the heart with a dread of his glorious pretence, and with the weight and'import>mnce of the work we are about,were we to deal with another man in a cafe oflife and death,we would weigh our words,and not rove like mad men. 7. The Curiofity of the Sen f es thefe occafon a diverfion,'tis the Of fice of the fancy to prefent as in aglafs whatfoever is recived by the External Senfes,or offered by the memory, and fo the underftanding ta- keth notice of it, the wandring eye caufeth a wandring heart, Solomon faith, Prov. 17.24. The fools eyes are to the ends of the earth, firft his eyes rove,and then his heart, (he Apoiile Peter faith, of unclean pylons, that they have eyes full of adultery, z Pet. 2.14. 'k YuI of the dul- terefs (as the word fignifieth) the eye is rolled upon the objet, and then the dart by the fancy is tranfmitted to the heart, Senfes are the windows and doors of the Soul. keep the Senfes if you would keep the heart; lob was at a fevers appointment with his eyes, lob. 3 t. r.'cis good when we go to God to renew thefe Cavenants, to agree with the heart that we will not go to God without it, with the eyes and ears, that we will not fee and hear any thing but what concerns our work;'twas a ftrange conflancy & fixednefs which « ?ofephue fpeaketh of, when Fanfltss,Cor- nelius, and Faarius, and Fabirss, with their Troops had broken into the City of 7erufalem, and Tome fl.d one way and fome another, yet the Priejs went on with their Sacrifices, and the holy rites of the Tem- ple, as if they heard nothing, though they rufhed on them with their fwords, yet they preferred the duty of their Religion, before their own fafety . and ftrange is that other Infiance of the Spartan Youth in Plu- tarch, that held the Cenfer to Alexander whilff he was facrificing,and though a coal lighted upon his flefh,he fuffered it to burn there,rather than by any crying out he would difturb the rites of their Heathenifh Sup rflition : certainly thefe inftances fhould flame us Chriflians, that do not hold the Senfes under a more fevere reftraint, but upon every light occafion fuffer them to trouble and dill-rail us in worfhip. 7, Cark. jng and diflruftful cares, when we are torn in pieces with the cares of the World, we cannot have a cornpofed heart, but, our minds will waver, and our dangers will recurr to our thoughts, and hinder the exercife of ourFaith;God took fpecial care of the ?ens when they went up to worfhip, that they might have nothing to trouble them, and therefore he faith,Exod.3 4.24. none of the Nations fhall defire the Land when thou fh oltgo up to appear before the Lord thy God thrice in the 'far; and * Auguflint gives this realon of ir, felt they íhould be dtftraeted with
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