The deceitfxluefje of Man.r heart. 3b5 here ? to think we fhould do afterwards that which in pre Cent we purpofed and defired, and within an houre or leffe, all our heat is gone,our afFeEtions are grown chill and coole, our hearts heavie, our Cpirits irowfie and dead, and fo our (elves wholly difabled, for the doing of that we thought. And why ? be- caufe we {truck not the iron whiles it was hoc ; wee held nor our hearts fafr,when we had hold of them; wee ufed not the meanes to keep them Rill in good frame and temper : And fo all our good thoughts vanifh and come to nothing. Excellently David, Aly heart 0 God is prepared. W hat {hall I fuller now other occafions to call me another way ? No : for then all that life and vigor which now i feele , will be gone : but I will arifi, and give than4s and Co I will ariCe and pray, Ale and confeffe, &c. Oh if we would goe to prayer in this fpring- ride,as it were of good affeEtions,how then, as the Prophet fpeaketh, fhould we power out a prayer ?ho w would the rivers ofrepenting teares over -flow? whereas, negle&ing this occafion,our prayers come but droppivgll from us afterward in the ebbe of our affe Lions. It cannot be fpoken how little a thing will diftra& andunfettle our hearts.They are like to glaties, that will be hurt with a little breath, and unto Muficall Inftrumenrs, that will be put out oftune with the leaft dilkemp_r of the A yre. And therfore we had not need topreter- mit the opportunity when we feele them wrought upon in any fort by the holy Spirit of God. What gocd imp. e fíions would they not receive then, be- trig Io loft and tender? whereof afterward they will not be capable,being returned to their former hard-- ticfl-'r Pfa1,57.7. Efay.xaa.
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