·' I 'The SaintsJure you in this Ordinance• .AB. 17. rr. it is faidof thofe noble Ber~ans,that they received the Word withall readineife of minde, .i. readine~e to re– ceive every truth. AndCornelim faid, A a. r o. 33. wee are a!l here prefent before G()d, to heare a!I things thttt are commanded thee of God. It is well added (that are ~omm;ended thee of God:) not what any Minifrer {hall teach, be he never fo good, or fo learned; nay, were he an Angell from Heaven, yet his Docl:rine mull: be examined,Gal. r .8: But ~vhen there isfuchadifpolition in U$,as to receive both ·in judgement and ,prattife whci~foever God fhall reveale unto us out ofhis Word; this is a . precious difpofition. . . , · B,ut, alas, the rnoft come to l1eare with pre– judicare and fore-fralled hearts, they beare a fe– oret grudge, and quarrell, .againft fome firiet Truth., -or other ; .as, againft the fanc:tification of the Lords Day, or Family-duties, or fecret communion with the Lord, by prayer·dayly, &c. And thefe imaginations feeme ·as firong Holds , to kcepe Chrifr and ,his Trl1th out of .t·heir -hearts, 2 Cor. ro. 4, 5. And ·thus men, ·.that in their hearing doe lim-it rhe Spirit of God , would (if it lay in their power) fay as thofe wicked men, Ifay 30. 'Io. to the Seer.r, fee not ; and to the Prophets, prophefie not right things unto w.; Jfeake unte m fmosth things : And thofe that fa id fo, the Lord calls them defpifcrs of 'his Word. · Thefe are the rnaine andprincipall duties be. ·fore the hearing of the Word. . - Secondly, -~--~~----~--------------------=-------~
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