612 Chap. a1. o,íln 6xpofition upon the Bookpf J o a. Vert. Z, fnap him off wich replies before he bath fully opened and unburdened his minde. Such patient hearing is diligent hear- ing. ?ob now cals his friends to the higheft exercife of the dutie ofhearing. He would not have them heare him anymore with troubled fpirits, and impatient cares, but defires they would fet themfelves to it ,and make a bufinefre of it.And there is fomewhat of argument for this in the word fpeech; Heare diligently my f tech. TheHebrew fignifies. Frít, A plaine Leech ; As ifhe had faid, I doe not intend to >urifh it over, and catch your eares with f tediedoratory, or ela- Verburot air, quence. Iwill fpeakplainly, therefore heare me. quadbrevì a- Secondly, Ìt notes all() concifenr f e offpeech ; As ifhe had rem pro in res, Paid, `Doe Hot think, becaufe Icallyou to heare me diligently,that , do audirntiom I intend tofpeake tedioufly: Ihave but a reorder two tofuy,Ipur exa rbire:. pofe to coat rail my (elfe, and tofpeak.e much in a little. Doe not fearethat I will burden and tire you out in hearingme, I intend brevitie : Thereforeheare diligently my fpeech. Hence obferve ; firlt, It it no ea(ie work; to heare well. 'ris no hard matter to heare, but 'cis hard to heare well we may hear eafily, but it put's a man to it to beam diligently. Hearing may be conlidered as a threefold. work. Firft , As a natural', work and. fo it is an eafie thing to heare ; no manftudies, nor is any man taught to heare; we doe it naurally and freely. Thus we ufe" to defcribe the fpiritoall. a ingsofbelievers, when we fay, they performe duties natu- rally ; that is, they doe them with a kinder ofeafe, even as the. care heares, or-the eyefees, the naturali worke ofthe eye is an . eafie work, and fo is the naturali workof the care, there's no labour in it Secondly, Wemay confider hearing as it is a morali work, or as it tends to the receiving ofinftrudtion in any poynt of knowledge or learning; if a man doe butreceiveinitruaion. about a worldly bulineffeor truft, it. requires Tome paines, to take his arrand.right : and hence whenwe fpeake to fervant todoefuch a thing, and we perceivehe heares but flightly, we i fe to fay, You are gone withoutyour errand; there's needof di- ligent hearing to receive any direction in civil! matters, or in- rucion about moratts.. Thirdly,
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