ancl perpetu:all quid e. · ·and fall upon us by it, are excellent and precious. Looke 'in the lattere.t:Id of the eleventh Chapter of lob•. IS9 If th'ou prepare thine_heart, and flretch out thine. I oh 1 r. 13. htmdJ towardJ him. If iniqt~itie he in thinehand, put itfarre arMy, and·· 14• letno wtckedne._ffe dwell in thy Tt~bernade. , Then truly fhalt thou lift up thy face f'ithfut JPot:lmd 1 r o /hAlt heftable, and }halt notfeare, &. c. Pre-paration of the heart,lt here the found-ation . and fitfl: !l:ep unto-many glorious bleffings. · The heart·mufi: be firfr prepared, before other holy duties canbe fitlyperformed, or Gods bleffings· expeCted. In the tirf\ place ; firll, prepare thine heart ; fecondly, then poure it out in prayer:, before the Throne of Grace; thirdly , then purge it from corruption; banilh farre~ and barre eut all ini– .qui tie; fourthly; next, be fure to reforme, in– . firuc:t,and pray with thy family., or thofe that are ·about thee : Let nowickednelfe,ignorance) pro-- phancneffe, fivearing, fwaggering., drunkenndfe, , orrhe hke, dwell in thy Tabernacle, harbour in thine boufe, or rowft m~ere thee. ·And then open thyheart, ana hands ; for tne Windowes ofHeaven a1all be fetwideopen,that .aU manner of fpirituall comforts,all the bleffings of peace and happineffe, may in abundance be fbowred downe upon th~c; the rich Treaft:irie of everlafl:ing GJory and ImmortaJirie fl:lall be un- • lockt unto thee, and thou fhalt row and tumble . .thy felfe for-ever a-fter., amid mountain-es of hea- - . u~~ :.,_,
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