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V
f
"our
preparation
before
tie heare
the
word
of
God.
that
is,
attend
vnto the more
deepe
points
of
Diuinitie
;
in
a
word,
euery man
is
to
examine his
partiéular
Hate, and
to
fearch
out
his
greaten wants,
that
fo
comming to
heare the
word,
hee may
more
diligently
apply
fuch
do&rines, inflru-
61ions,and
exhortations
as
fhall
be
mofl
fit
for
his
vfe
and
be-
nefit
;
for
that
which
is
food to one
is
poyfon
to another, and
that
falce
which
is
fit
to
heale one
fore,doth
make
another
to
fef}er
and ranckell
,
and
one part
of
theword
of
God being
applied
to
men
of
diuers eflates,
doth worke
diuers
effe&s;
one
it feedeth,
another
it
poyfoneth
;
one it
healeth,another
it
w'oundeth
;
to
one
it
is
the
fauour
of
life
vnto
life, and
to
another
it
is
the
fauour
of
death vnto
death
:
and
therefore
before
wee come
to the hearing thereof,
wee
are
to
examine
our
Dates
that
we may applie and make profitable
vfe
to our
felues
of
that
which
is
moff
fit
to nourifh and flrengthen
vs
in
Gods
graces..
weare
to
vfe
LaPI
y
and
mofl':
efpecially
we
are
to
vfe
camel
and
heartie
carnet
prayer.
prayer vnto
the Lord that
he
may
open
our
blind
eyes,
fo
as
wee
P1alm.a9.i
.
may
fee the
wonderfull things
of
his law,
that
he will
take
away
our
ionic
hearts,and give
vs
flefhy hearts
in
which his
word
may more
eaf
ly
be
imprinted; that
hee will
with the
oyle
of
his grace
bow
our Hubborne wines,
and make
them
flexible
and
inclinable
to
performe obedience to
his
will, reuealed
in
his
word,that
he will
fan6ifie our
affe
&ions and
purge
them
from
their
naturali
corruptions,that
hee will
difill
the
hea-
utenly
dew
of
his
holie Spirit into
our mindes and barraine
hearts,
that
fo
the
feede
of
hisword
being
watered thereby,,
may yeeld
a
plentiful)
haruefi
in
grace and godlineffe.
.And
thefe are
the duties which
wee
mull performe in
the
of
the duties
time
ofour
preparation
:
nowafter
we
are
thus prepared
and
which
to
mMS7
haue prefented our
felues
into Gods hólie
affemblies,
there
perform
e
in
are alto
other duties to
be
performed,
to
the
end
that
Satan
hearing it,to.
fet
our
felues
may-not
dif}ra&
our
minds, and
fo
make
the word which we
in
Gods prey
heare
fruitleffe
:
firth
wee are
to
fét our
felues
in
the
prefence
"e
of
God
who
looketh
vpon
vs,&
beholdeth
all
our
behaviour-
in
this
anion,
according to
the
example
of
good.
Cornelius
A61.1
o.3
3.
Here (faith
hee
)
wee
are
all prefent
before
god
to
4eare
all
things.that
are
commanded
thee
of
God.
And
if
We
thus
doe,.