--------~--------~~~--~----~-------1 and perpetual/ (juide. 183 1 .with ,-.n honeft And good heArt havi'!g hea.rd the word, keepe it, &c. Many there are, that are very~areleife of this .dutie: They thinke they have dtfcharged them– felves abundantly, if they heare the w·hole Ser– 'mon attentively; as though there were nothing more required at their hands : Like our Saviours hearers, Math. 2. 2.. 2. z. when they heArd him, they . · ·mar!Velled, and left him,and tfent theirway : but wee never heare more o£ them. Somany heare defi– roufiy,and with open and greedie eares: but, as <Wee fay,it goes in at one eare,and out at another i it fl:ayes not for any after-ufe, but a little prefent .admiration. Others heare,and theWord fmites them a little on their Confciences, and wounds; and one would thinke, fome good thing would be wrought upon them: but they goe away, and the motion dyes. They are as men that are Sea– ftcke, whildl: the Word humbles them 3 and ,makes their Confciences to wamble within ·them ; but they are as whole as a_Fjlb , when as they are once landed at the Church doore :, Or like unto Mettals ~ which are foft and ply– able, whileft they are in the fire ; fo thefe are in the hearing-: but fbortly they loofe all the -efficacie of the Word, and become bar<;!er than before. ' WeH, Iet us in the feare ofGod, hearken dili– gently to the words of the Holy-Ghoft,Heb.z. r. That wee ought to give the more earneff heed to the things that wee hat·e he4rd, left 4t any time wee {hould let them flip, or runne out (like riven Velfels :) (n 4) Why;
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