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O
f
duties
to
be
performed
4fter
the bearing
of
Gods word.
meditatrou
a
.,,pfour
foules
wherby
we are
nourithed vnto
euerlafting
life,
the
benefit
'that
fpirituall phyfick whereby
we are
purged from
our cor-
bearing.
ruptigns,that light
which guideth
vs
in
the
waies
of
hohnes
and
righteoufnes
;
in
a
word, that it
is
the
chiefe meanes
to
worke
in
vs
all
Gods
graces in
this life, and
to
affure vs
of
euerlafting
happineffe in
the
life
to
come. And
ifthefe and
fuch
like
meditations
come
to
our remembrance, they will
lerue to flirre
vs
vp
from our drowfie
dulneffe,and
to
heare
Gods
word with
alacritie
And
cheerefulnefi'e, fattening
our
eyes
on
Gods
Minifters
according to the
example
of
Chrifts
hearers, Luk
4.2o.
and euen
hanging
vpon
them.(
like
The
and
19.48.
child on
themothers breatt) to
fuck
our
foules
nourifhtnent
as
the people hanged on our Sauiour.Luk 19.48.
Fourthly,
wee
mutt
heare
the word
as
if
wee
were neuer-
more
to
heare
it
:
for
who
can tell
whither
hee
,{hall
hue
till
the
next
Sabbath
?
or
though
bee
doe,yet how knoweth bee
whether
he fball haue
his fenfes,
vnder1tanding,
and memo
-
rie,feeing
he will
not
vfe
them
to Gods
glorie and
his
owne
good
?
or
though
he
haue, yet
may
the
word
of
God
bee
ta
ken
from
him,and
fuch a
famine bee
ofthis
heauenly
foode
Amos
E.
t
t. that
he
may
wander from
fea
to
lea, and from
North
to
Eaft
feeking
it
and thall
not
finde
it,
and therefore whileft
the
Lord
fpeaketh
vnto
vs,
to
day
let
vs
hearken and
not
harden
our hearts;for
hee
hath.not.promifed
vs
to morrow
that
wee
{hall
heare
it;
whilett wee enioy this heauenly
light
let
vs
looke
vpon
it,and be directed by
it to
doe
the
workes
of
ho-
lineffe
:for
it
may
bee
it willfhortly
fet
and
neuer rife
againe
unto
vs,and
then what will
follow
but
eternal!
darkneffe?
Laftly,let
vs
beltirred
vp
to
:attention
by the cófideratiott
ofGods
iudgements
which
hee
inflicteth
on
the contemners
and
negledors ofhis
word, which
hee may
iuttly euery
mi-
nute
powre vpon
vs
whileft our mindes
are
a
wandring,not
regarding
that
which
hefaith
vnto
vs,he may füddenly ftrike
vs
with
fren
ie
and madnes, or
with
death
it
felfe, and then
:how fearefull
and lamentable were our.ftate
if
fuch
a
iudge-
fats.:o.
ment.fhould
feafevpon
vs.
Let
vs
remember what
hapned
to
drowfie
Eutychus ,and confider
with
our
!clues
that that
which
befalle h
unto
onemay
happen
vnto another.
An