210 CFI R I S T, S larm Secondly, dcadneffe of ,Mind, when the mind is ignorant of God, in regard of laving knowledge, when a mans salad is without laving underflanding, then his mind is laid to be dead ; as David layes, Give mee underftandíng and 9 fball live, Pfal. t t9. 144. Then my mind Gall be alive (ayes hee, then J frail know thee aright ; Now let a man have never fo much knowledge and learning, yet, in divine things is other - wife, and have nothing, his mind is Rill dead ; bee is as a dead man to all the things of God,; he cannot fie God in all his wayes no more then a dead man ; he cannot mind God ; bee may mind earthly things ; but he cannot mind Gad ; nay, though hee can mind Learning andDivinity , learning, and learning about God, yet he cannot mind God ; his mind is dead to fuch lavoury knowledge; even as dead as a dead man ; Hee knowes not how to pray to Go n; as a child to his Father ; bee knowes not how to doe any duty, in a godly gracious manner ; his mind is as dead to thele things , as a Pimple Country -man, is to Latine, or Greek e, or Hebrew. Thirdly, deadneffe of Heart,when the heart is not inclined towards God, then wee f ty it is dead towards God and all gooeineffe; though bee gee to good duties every day, yet as long as the heart is not inclined to them, it goes about them in a dead manner; when a mans heart is once inclined towards God, now it begins to be alive towards hire ; as David layes, The heart (ball be alive that feekgs God, Píá1.69.3 z. That is, you whole hearts are inclined to ferve God, your hearts are a- live ; Now when a man hath no Divine inclinations to all heavenly duties and courfe , though hee doe never fo much profè«e the following of them, Lee followes then I with a dead Heart. Fourthly, deadneffe of Confcienee, when the confcience bath no force ; it may bee it finds fault with fuch and fuch wayes, but it hath no power over the man , to make him to leave them; perhaps it' approves fuch and filch holy per- formances, .yea, but it bath no power over him, to caufe
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