Serm,19. in holy Duties ? 465 with thoughts about their own prefervation, volt Dew intelligi ut fe- cursu quifq; afcenderet , nec de terra futi follicitsu effet, deo promit. tente cuflodiam; and one of the arguments by which Paul cornniendeth Jingle life, is freedom from the encumbrances of the Worl d,that we may ferve the Lord without dif1rac5tion, i Cor. 7 35. Thirdly, Remedies, I might (peak many things by way of weer cossn- fel about guarding the Senfes, the ufe and absdfe of a form, &c. but all thefe are but like external , ?pplications in Phyfick or topical medicines, as the binding of things to the wri[ls of the hands, &c, which work no pertEl cure of a difafe, unlcfs the atftemper be purged away , therefore I (hall fpeak to thof. th r.gs that al e mof#,fefltial. t. Go to God and wait for the power of his Grace, David (peaking of it as his work,Pfal.86 I t . Unite n.y heart to the fear of thy name, fix i r, gather it together con 781v P..40V1L ( faith the Septuagint) make it one,the heart is multiplied when'cis diflraffed byfeveral thoughts, God bath our hearts in his own hand,&when we can kep them up no longer then he holds them tip,when he withdraws his grace we lofe our life,and feriouf» efs ; as meteors hang in the air as long as the heat of the Sun is great, but when the Sun is gone dou n,they fall ; as long as the love of God and the work of hm Grace is powerful in us, we are kept in a lively heavenly frame, but as that abateth the Soul fwerveth , and returneth to vanity and fin. We read, .9í1s i6. 14, it s, that the Lord opened the heart of Lydia, fo that fhe attended to the things that were ßok\en of Paul: attention there beareth fomewhat a larger fenfe than we now confider it in, namely a deep regard to the doâtrfne of lift, yet this Senfe of ftxednefsof ff irit cannot be exclud, d, go to God then, pray him to keep thy heart tcoher he ti at bath fct bounds to the Sea, and can bind up the waves in a heap, and flop the Sun in its flight, certainly he can fallen and eflablifh thy heart and keep it from running out. 2. Meditate on the greatnefs of him before whom we are ;'tin of great eonfcquence in duties,to co! Lider whom we take to be our party, with whom we have to do, Heb.4.13 . in the Word God is the party that fpeak- eth to us, thous fhalt be as ny mouth, Jer. i 5. 16. ar if God fpake by ue, 2 Cor,5.20.'tis God fpeaketh, and the Heathen King of Moab (hew - ed filch reverence, that when Ehud faid, I hove a meffage to thee from God, he arofe out of his feat, ]udg. 3.20. fo in prayer }ou have to do with God,you do as really mini1 cr before him as the Angels that abide * Omnino r;es in bin prefence,.Oh,it you could fee him that k invifidle,you would have opener erRrit,- nM rempore cu- more reverence. R A Man that is playing or «òtfhippirgfl,ould behave rear"inrrare hitnfelf is if he were ix Ilevcn immediately before God, in the midfi ettefent. of
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