comfortable walking withGod. 147 times, (fuch a deadneffe and dampeof zeale, and heavenly- rnindedneffe, haunts even the holieft hearts in thefe unhap- py daies of fecuritie and forme) worldly matters, Talkeof others , or force more remarkable accidents and affaires abroad , fpeculative curioficies, force ceremoniall unfeafo- nable controverfes, or other .fuch like impertinencies in . one kind or other, take up and ingrofíe, even from Gods children, toomuch of many.golden feafons, which might precioufy ferve, by their mutuall divining with more Chri- llian edifying difcourfe into the great mythrieofgodlineffe, and walkes of Chriflianitie, to nourifh and increafe a- mongft them much fpirituall warmth, comfort, and refolu- tion againfl all ungodly oppofitions, and to build up one another im their moft holy Faith, acquaintance with temp- tations, experimental) knowledge, more comfortable wal- king with God, &c. To confront this common mifchiefe and Mar-conference at Chriflian meetings, come unto them ,prepared , as I advifed before .; page 86, 87. But if the company bee contrary-minded, and un inured to the lan- guageof Canaan, exercife and interpofe all thy wit, cou- rage , authoritie, and eloquence, to draw them from the dunghill of rotten . talke.: and by a wife plaufible diver- .fion, and modeftly over- ruling tranfition, carry the cur- rent of their prefent difcourfe, all thou eanf}, towards force Heavenly good, and fpirituall end. i. Towhich end, ob- f rve , and apprehend all opportunities and occurrences., whichmay minifler matter of digrefflon into divine talke.; and acquaint thy felfe with the Art, ,of abftrahing facred inflru6tions from the booze of the Creatures and buf nef is in hand. It was the rpra6tice of our bie%d Saviour: -Vpon mention ofbread, (Aiatth. r 6. hee prell upon his Difciples, a diflwaßon from the Leavenofthe Pharifees : when bee ob- ferved , Ìoho 6. a number of people to throng about him for moremiraculous bread., -hee digreffed into a moll hea- venly difcourfe ofthe food of life. Vpon occafion of drinke ;being denied him by the Samaritarre woman, John,_q. hee forgetting his wearinefië ,. hunger and'thirf}, labours to;al- L 2 lure
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