3So Oftheperformedafter thehewing ofGods word. the furrowes ofour hearts that it may take deepe rooting, it will neuerbritag foorthany fruite of true godlineffe. Now the tneanes to preferue and nourifh this heauenlie feede of Godsword is firfi ferious meditation whereby wee call to mind that which wee haue heard, in which it is verie re- quifite that wee examine thedo&irines which were dcliue- red according to the touchftone of Gods word, and turne otter theBible to thofe proofes which wee remember allea- ged as moll principali for the confirmationof the do&irines whichwere deliuered : a notableexample whereofwee haue 11,11.t7.to.ti. in the noble men of Berea, Ails 17.10.11. Who though with great readineffe they receiuedthat do&lrinewhichPaul haddeliuered,yet when they camehome they fearched the Scriptures,to fee ifthofe things which they hard were nant and agrecable with them or no. Secondly, we mull vfe holy and Chriflian conference one with another 'about thofe matters whichwe haue heard, for hereby it will cometo paffe that what one didnot obferue or hath forgotten,theother remembreth and repeateth, and fo likewife the other helpeth out in another point where his neighbour faileth,till at lall they recall al the material points to theirremembrance, euen as many meeting together at a feali do eueryon call in his (hot til the reckoning bee made; fo many ioyning their heads together for the recalling ofa fermon to mind,one repeateth a little, and another as much more,till at lafl all be repeated. And fecondly, this benefit redoundeth hereof,that all which eueryoneretnembrethby this repetition is more furely imprinted in his memorie,and isnot afterwards eafilyforgotten. Laflly, the bell and furefi way to imprint things in our memòrie neuer after to bec blotted out, is vpon all occafi- ons to praelife it in our liues and conuerfation:for as we only truly know that in chriftianitie that which wee pra&life, fo likewife that is onely well remembredwhich is well pra- ifed. CHAP.
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