·. and perpetual/ quide. - - ------,--- mo£1: fenfuall fweetneffe: Or, if thiswill not prevaile ·. by cafting into our mindes very craftily and c~nningly,things whieh in theirownenature may be good, honefr,and religious: But becaufe they are thought upon out ofdue and convef.lient time, they deprive us of the profit of the prefen_t holy Exercife ; which ought for the time) onely and wholly to takeupol;}r mindes. If this yet will doe no good ; but that wee marke diligently and attentively j all the while, whafthe Minitler delivers unto us from God, for our good : why then, in a third place; · , 1 In fome, he makes it uneffe6tuall, by nou– rHhing in them a neglea of reading; the Scrrp– tures,and ignorance in the Principles ofReligion: fo that though ·they attend never fo welJ,and fiare the Minifier in the face f yet they underfland not the Sermons they heare. Let the younger fort therefore, to prevent this niifchiefe , acquaint tbemfelves with the Scriptures from their youth· by the example ofTimothy, 2 rim. 3. I 5. Salomon: Prov. 3 I. r, &c.· Samuel, I Sam. I. 24. See alfo Pfal. 119. Prov.z. r. And let the miferie upon Eliu Houfe, terrine negligent and indulgent Pa– r~nts; fee 1 Sam. 2. r, 2. &c. In this depth, the. VVord is eitherburied as it is brought forth, or · dies at the Church doore. 2 In others,he earneftly endeavours utterly to ' extingui(h and aboliili all thought of it; quite to drive and baniib it out of theirheacb,fo foone . as they have heard it. And that thus : If mens hearts be hardned through unbeleefe, or cuftome (g 3) m Ss Some under.:. ftand not what theylleare. • '• Tn others, Sa~ than fieales it away immedi~ arely•
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