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So
Of
the
performed
after
the
hewing
of
Gods
word.
the
furrowes
ofour
hearts
that it
may take
deepe
rooting,
it
will neuer
britag
foorth
any fruite
of
true godlineffe.
Now
the
tneanes
to
preferue
and nourifh this
heauenlie
feede
of
Gods
word
is
firfi
ferious
meditation whereby
wee
call
to
mind that which
wee
haue
heard,
in which
it
is
verie
re-
quifite
that
wee examine
the
do&irines
which
were dcliue-
red according
to
the
touchftone
of
Gods word,
and
turne
otter
the
Bible to thofe proofes
which
wee remember allea-
ged
as
moll
principali
for
the
confirmation
of
the
do&irines
which
were deliuered
:
a
notable
example
whereof
wee
haue
11,11.t7.to.ti.
in
the noble men
of
Berea,
Ails 17.10.11. Who
though
with
great
readineffe
they receiued
that
do&lrine
which
Paul
had
deliuered,yet
when
they
came
home 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 which
we haue
heard, for
hereby
it
will come
to
paffe
that
what one did
not
obferue
or
hath forgotten,the
other 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 their
remembrance,
euen
as
many meeting
together
at
a
feali
do
euery
on call
in his
(hot
til the
reckoning bee made;
fo many ioyning their heads
together
for the recalling
of
a
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
euery
oneretnembreth
by
this repetition
is
more furely
imprinted
in his
memorie,and
is
not
afterwards
eafily
forgotten.
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
remembred
which
is
well
pra-
ifed.
CHAP.