and rltad Duties. incrtafe i·n: holindre·: f)orfi tbori not pray and pray~ llear arid hear,come ro·cburch an l.undred riri es; yet art as earth - . Jy, proud, fenfual, as dull ar;d negligent in hol}' things as ever? Oh, if there were life within ·Thy five\Jr'•u!dgainten, tllO'Iil wouldfi fay with 'j~tcob , I came ovtr 'lordan ~'ith a fllljf, a 11 dnow I am m(ld~ t"rJo ~and!, Gen.3 2~ 1 o·. I began poor, but 3H .. God bath made me rich ! 1<· ~ · . S'eveRthly, When duties c;~me not frrm life Whhin, .ther"e u ~q . 7 . f ervency, no ~Ml, lnct meer luk.Ewa1 mmJJe. And mdced m And themhere our common expreffion we call zeal and fervency life. That is no fervency , Sermon is a dead Sermo.n whfch is lukewarm, and is oot both and re al, ·but burningand fhinin:g; fo i'sall that R~ligfon':md all that p ro- ~ukdew~rmne$~ fc.ffion very dead,, which is cold; formal, ]u·kewarm. Hence· tn lllttes. RQm.u. BeftrVtlflt in Spirit{erving the -L6rd, boil ing over, · as the pot doth with an hot fire under it. The Church efL aq. dieMwas a dead•Church 3s'\1(cllas this of Sardu, a!nd it ap-· peared by her luk!warmnefj11. As this temper is ve ry often, men pray as if they had eo mindelo it; r,hey liear as if they did not much regard ic; fo it is very loathfolile arid abomi~ nable to God, it is a temper hc'canhot abid(-. when life gocth out of the body, tinen it groweth !lark cold, ·and rhus where the life of grace is not , the heat and all the..duties ofRel.igion are altogether cold, no zeal; ·no,joy, _no vigo~ · of .foul· in the difcharge of them. Awake then thou' that Oeepeft, . pray that Godmlly give thee light and life, tremble at thy coldneffe, dnlncffe. Oh think, Did thegodly that lived to God £hew no more affection and zeal to God then I do? Eigthly' Then llre onr dHtits''Without life, "Whm thiJ art tnJ· 8. pty and notjilted up a4 thl) oHght to bt. Tbis Cluift doth in.. Alfo when our-• fiance in, as the main argument to prove lhe was dead, I duties are em- · have netfound th] work! 'lWU'J\.trfClJuJ(.t~. filled up-; there was much pry and not ernptineffe and dcfcetivenelfe i_n them: Now,the emptineff~ fi lled up. of Religion arifeth rnafly waics; There may be a defeCt in the · principle-, when we do.it not from fuperhaturalgrace within, but from humane firength aad power, this emptincffe mull ' be filltd up. Again, there is defcCliwcneffe in the md, when what we do, is not for God in reference to him, but wholly· to onrf elves, lfrttel u a.~ empty· vine, hringing forth fruit ttr bimfe lfo
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