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Of
duties
to
be
performedafter earrhearisg
ods,cord.
379
And
thus
are wee
to
flirre
vp
our
felues
to
the
diligent
and
4.Seti.7.
attendue
hearing
of
Gods word,that
fo
it
may
be
fruitftìll
in
How
vve
are
our hearts,and effeóuall
for our conuerfion and
calling
vn
-t0 behaue
our
ter
to God
:
but when
wee
haue
gone
thus farre wee
muff
not
(c
ueha
rd
as
heere
ref},
for
if
our enemie
Satan
cannot hinder the
feede
the
vvord,
of
Gods
word
from
falling into
our
hearts, then
hee
will
la-
bour to
fleale
it
away
as
foone
as
it
is
fowed,
that
it
may
ne-
tier
take roote nor
bring
foorth
any
fruite,
as
appeareth
by
lamentable
experience
:
for
how
many
are
there
who receiue
the
word
ofGodwith
their approbation,
and
are
fomewhat
affect
}ed
with that
which
is
fpoken, and yet
foone
after
it
va-
nifheth away,
and nothing remaineth
but their
old
cor-
ruptions
?and whence
doth
this proceed
but
from
the
malice
of
S,
who when
hee findeth
the
feede
of
the
word
not
throúíly
entred into
the
ground
of
the heart,
and
therein
couered like
a
rauenous
bird
deuoureth
it;or
ifit
haue
a
little
rooting,
yet
hee
choaketh it with the
thernie
cares
of
the
world,
fo
as
it neuer fpringeth vp, no
not
fo
much
as
into
a
blade
of
profegion
;
or
if
it
be
fo farre
growne
vp,
yet
he in
deuoureth
to
keepe
it
from- euer
thriuing
further,
by can-
fing
the
hot
funne
of
perfecution to
arife,
and
with
the heate
thereof
to
make
it
wither,
and
perifh,
though
for
a
time
it
haue
made
a
flourifhing
(hew;
as
our
Sauiour
Chrift hath
taught
vs
in
the
parable
of
the Sower,
Math.'
3.
And
there--
Matth.336.
fore
it
behooueth
euery one
of
vs
to take
no
leffe
paines
after the hearing
of
the word to
keepe
it
from
deuouring
and
to
preferue
andnourifh it, that
it
may
take
deep
roote
and
bring forth much
fruit;
then
we did in the time
of
pre-
paration,atsd in
the time when
we receiued
it
:for
as
the care-
full
husbandman
taketh great painesin
flirting
vp
his
fallow
grounds,and preparing
it
for
the
feed,as
alfo
iri
the
feed
time
in
fowing
it
in
the ground
thus prepared, and
yet
all
this,
-
were
to
no purpofe
if
he
did
not
afterward
harrow it
and
cotter
it
in
the
ground;
fo
though
we take
greatpaines
in-
breaking
vp
and
preparing the fallow
grounds
ofour hearts,
.
and
a1íó
in receiving
the
feede
of
Gods worde,
yet
if
wee
be
not
as:carefull
after
all
this
to
couer and hide
this
feede in
flue-_