2 Attention. Cfhe Sait~t.r fore And truly,this apprehenftonofGods prefence in the Aifemblies of his people, wil'lworke three . things in us. . Fufi, keepe us in that.awfull and reverent dif– polition of body and minde tnat is meet. · Secondly, it will preferve our hearts from ro- _ ving and wandering thoughts>which are great im~ pediments of hearing; Pfol. I 19. I x'3 .I.htuevaine · thoughts, but thy Law drJe JIDve.. · Thirdly, it will make tts to receive and obey that that {hall be taught us ; ·for fo God ha.th beene wont to prepare his people, to receive hi£ Word: yea,he faid..ofhis people,when they were thus affeeted,Deut. Is. 29. Oh that there -were fuch an heart in..them, to feare me and keepe my Comman.. dementi alwayes. Now the want of this, is that which hinders abundance of benefit that the ·Mini!l:erie of the Word would ·otherwife doe us : This ts the root -of all the mifchiefe the Devill dt!>th to poore foules, in the hearing oftheWord; the practice . thereof, is the fountaine of all our good. Many graceleffe wretches there are in our Affemblies, likehim,Luke 18.2. that neither feared God, nor regarded man; rhatdefpife the Church of God, yea,contcmne the prefence of the holy Angels, (1 Cor •.rr.ro.) and of God hirnfelfe in the Af.. femblies, who bath layd fuch xfpeciall .charge upon us, Lev.26. z. to keepe his Sabbaths, and to reverence his SanEfuarie; and he addes this reafon, I am Iehovah. · . ·2 The fecond dutie in hearing, is diligent attention
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