492 Vow may we get rid of Spiritual) Sloth ? Senn, a t. In the profecution of which Scripture I fhall do thefe three things. I. Explicate the Terms. 2. Deduce a Corollary, 3. Refolve the Cafes. I. For Explication. ,,9,r4t6kn. There is a two -fold quickening. I. Proper and moral. 2. Improper and metaphorical. 1. Proper and moral, which is twofold. . 'total. partial. I. Total. Which is the rai(ìng a dead body to natural life ; thus , Ii f.Arg.1.5. was L<<zarsss railed, 7obn 1 1.43, 44. So was Drithelrr,e of Norrhssra- esp.13. Berland railed if credit may be given to Bede * and Heruo Arrrfeneau. laro,l.b.Io. 2, Partial which is the rcforinga body declined and decaied with de Ferrrrá ius,1.7. ficknefs, or forrow to Spirits and vigorous energies. So was David, dteip. fo1.162. whole body by grief and forrow was made a meer Skeleton, Pfal. 31. Io, 17. Bezrkiah by ficknefs brought fo low, that he was become fpiriticfs, yet he was raifed up again, upon which he compotes that rare Hymne or Canticle of praife to God, Ifai.3 S i o. I I. Improper and metaphorical, which is likewife two-fold. I. Total. 2. Gradual. I. Total, which is the railing of a Soul flark dead in in to Spiritual Life, Ephef i.2. and you bark hegxickned, who were dead intre(ffs and fins. II. Gradual,wbich is the railing of a dull and droufie Soul from fit th and fluggifhnefs to high, yea higheft degrees of vivacity, and aäivi- ty ; for this you have David praying here, and in Pfal. 143.11. 09',L,fic- kn me, O Lord, for thy Names fake. In this defcription it will be very neceflary to explain floth, and activity. i. Spiritual Sloth is threefold. I . Refolving Sloth. z. Delaying Sloth. 3. Diflurbing Sloth. i. Refolving Sloth, is, when a Soul is fetid upon it's lees, and re- folves to lit [till, and never to fir in that momentous concernment of its own eternal Salvation. Solomon excellently deciphers this, Prey, 26.14. Ai the door tarns upon his binges,fo Beth the flothful upen his bed; as the door turns upon the hinges, and never firs from his place,fo the flothful turns upon the bed of fecurity, and never turrs from his pur_ pofe. ver. 44. 16, 17. they were refolved to worihip the queen of Heaven, come life, come death. Such was the Souldiers refolurion, who bad on his Target God and the Devil pio4ured, under God fi to cols vrs, under the Devil ife rogitat. 2. Delaying Sloth, when a perfon Both intend to look after Soul - concernments, but not yet, they will borrow day, a little time. Much 1.04 1114 fluggard,Pç9y,6. io, Yet slit* peep, o little fl order, a little folding
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