' 1]6 'The Saints Jure eye i$ alwayes a fure evidence of a .wandering hearto ' Secondly, ifye doe not thus, it will be a good helpe for rhofe-.that can write, to note the V\'ord, .as Baruch wrote from tl'tc mouth of Jeremiah, Ier. 36. 4· This holds the minde clofeco all due ·is.faid. Some objeCt it1deed, that it hinders affeel ion in hearing: but though it may doe fo in fome,for the prefent; yet afterwards ic wiU workc . ACaveat. more 1at1:ingaifefrioris upon the Word. Onely I ·they that ufe this helpe~meanes, ruufl: be carefull I .-. that they doe not prcfitme upon their Nores fo, '- as. to negleCt the recalling of what they have heard, (as maqy ufe to doe) and fo lofe all holy affedioDS ~ and 'that impreffion that the Wora would make upon their hearrs., · · · Thirdly, entreat the Lord to open thy heart, as be openedLyditlJheart, AB. r 6. 14. Our hearts are fhut up quite, and cannot attend unto any _thing that is good, except that the Lord opens- .them. · · Obferve tlJ.en another caufe, why theWord is f0 unfruitfull unto many. Some are like thede~fe AdderJ, that flop their eares againll: the voice of ' the Charmer; Pfol. 58. 4, 5· And fome fleepers there are, that faile in their attention , that the Devill ufually rocks-afleepe, when they come to heare; but they that are fuch, fhouid know, that / thdr damnation fleepes not, the Devilllleepes not: he comes to.the Alfemblies,to pieke up the . ·good Seed that is fowne; nay,he comes to picke · up their foules indeed : fGr h~cares not fo much for -
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