216 Ì CIÜRI4T'S dlarm Áea¡,r. therefore the Lord accepts not of it : When wee humble our felves before God, to hang downe our heads like a Bull-rufh, it's naught, it's naught, the Lord cannot away with it ; when wee conferre about the Word, or any gracious and godly Theme,to fpeake as if we had no favour of it, no pleafùre in it, when our hearts would rather be on another fubjeó and ne- ver lin till they have wound all good talke out ; if we fpeake one word to edification, there (hall be twenty to that one,, that Thal fèrve to no other end,but to the hardaing of one ano- ther ; when C brill and the two difciples were communing to- gether, their hearts burned in them ; did n®t our hearts bur,e w ithin us while he talked with tee by the way? Luk.a4.3z. That was talking with life. But when our hearts arc as cold as a flint, this we may call talking, but holy conference it can - nót be termed. Thus yee lee a dead Chrtllian, is as good as no Chriflan at all, no grace is without life, no duty car. lac done without life ; the reafons of this are. Firfl, becaute this is all one as to have no Grace at though a man be a member of the congregation of the Lord, though he have the leales of the Covenant, and profetle the faith of Jefus, and he as morall in his life as ever any of the heathen, and as full of good duties as ever any hypocrite was,' and more too, yet if he have not life yet, he is but a tinckling tymball'; he bath no grace at all. I mean,: no favrng grace at all ; laving grace the Apofile cals it Th 'gage of life, r Pct.3.7. It is the grace of life, it breeds life in ;'vim t; iat bath it, it makes him alive towards God. se lets out the life of his heart in every good word and worke ; it Makes him pray wich life. beare with life, ore the ordinances in puhlike and private with life ; the naturall life that is in the lóule it turner it to God, it turnes the man about. as a (hip isturned on the Sea ; that fayled before towards North ,, now it fayles towards South. So when grace comes into the tbule ; ve know the man had life afore, but it fayled towards the world, and the things of the world, but when grace does come in, it makes it row
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