te eke Nlie SAINTS. we heate it peradventure, but no heart to it at all ; how ordinarily doe we come to Gods houfe , but heartlefnes bath dominion over the thoá of us ; the Do&rine of the Golpell does not quicken up our hearts , we deale with it as ?btnebae his wife dui with her Sonne, when the women about her told her fhe had a Sonne, the text (ayes, fhe did not regard it. so What hale regard have we of the Gofpell or (,ot! ! I flretched ont my hands and no man would regard,Prov.l. iell us of our Dmaned eflate by ns:- ture,how cr;rledwe arc.trom the wombe,what infinite neat we have to be le,ifible of it, we know it, but how dead is our knowledge of it ? It does not (litre up our hearts ro confider df it; neither does it prick us fo much as the pricking of a pin; Tell us of the Redemption of the world byJeiìis C kris, his precious bloud, his Pa (lion and Merits, whole heart is enlivened and quickened up by them? Nay, ourlóules are hardly moved at all at the hearing of them. Tell us of the Kingdome of heaven, the marriage Supper of the limb, his Oxen, and his fatlings,;:,O they are all ready., come Sirs, come to the marriage ; we are even as they in the parable, They made:light of it, Matth.az. T. Their things are made as if they were of no moment, as if they were lightï matters, they finde poore entertaine- ment at our hands v h.: Irtle, irklomneffè do we feele in Sinne, what little dejeeledneffe of _heart, what little remorfe of Conlcience, nay few know by experience, what Humiliation meanea ; we can confeflc in our prayers, how vile we are, and how unworthy and how wretched and finnefuli but as though theCe were words of courlè, our hearts are fo dead, that there is little or no relenting at it ; we can fay we are undone if God doe not beare us, our prayers are all nothing, except they be with faith and life, and yet who (rives to awaken and rowze up.hiintëlf ? We can lay, O how are we beholding to God, for life, for health, for his daily good providence, for his patience, his bounty ? And we can fay, it is not the bare naming of his Blelbngs before hire F f 3 that 4b
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