·IS4 The Saintsfore Sanc:tuarie,teachable and hearing hearts,that will willingly and readily open t~emfelves, to receive the Lord of glory, with whatfoever bee {hall rePfal,,o,6, v.ea1e unto us out ofhis holyWord. Sacrifice and burnt offerin,gs (fayrh David) thou woulde.H not, but mine eAres ha.H thou prep4red. As if hee ibould ha\'e fa id: Thou haft bored new eares in my heart, that I can now reverently attend unto,righrlycon– ceive, and with an holy greedineffe devoure the myfierie of grace. . · With fuch hearts as thefe, mufl: ~vee come to the hearing of the Word, ifwee Iooke that it lhould be unto us aWord of power, falvation, and life; and not to be of the number of thofe J that offer the facrifice of fooles,and yet know not that they doe evill. · Many there are certainely, which offer thefe foolilb facrifices; I meane,hearers,without care and confcience: Who, if they come into the Houfe of God, and vouchfafe their prefence in the place, and lend their cares to the Preacher for the time; they thinke themfelves prefently jolly fellowes, for matters ofReligion; and that they are fan&ified, as it were, by theWorke wrought, and their onely prefence in that holy place: when as yet theWord bath had no more po\Yer, nor wrought more alteration upon them, than upon the Seats where they fare. · And that which makes thefe fooles much more ., miferable,and foolifb, is this; They know not that they doe eviU: as it is in the Text. They thinke their cafegood enough, that theyare in the right ' courfe
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