to alrolVfe SAINTS. 1 323 and therefore it is no more then nothing; when the Prophet D avid would doe good duties, fo as to doe them to good purpole indeed, you Thal' fee how hec labours agamft a dead heart, uicken mee after thy loving 'ndneff'e, fo fhall , keens the Tiffamcnits of thy mouth, Pfah 119. S8. fo wee may fay too, Lord quicken the after thy loving kindneffc , fo Blau! J Preach, fo (hall J ireare, fo ('Hall J doe thy holy will, fo fhall J goe up and downe doing good ; Now as long as a man does it with a dead heart, it is even all one as ifa man had not donc it at all ; a dead mars is no man, as the Apofile layes ; God quickens the dead, and cals things that are not : marke, dead things are no things; fò dead workes are no workes, as Solomanlàycs. There is no worke, and no device, and no wifdome, and no purpofe in the Grave whither thou goeft ; That is, when men are dead then they can doe nothing. So is it here, as long as wee are dead, we can doe nothing. True, becaufe wee have the life of fenl'e , and of Nature and of a naturali Confcicnce in us : wee may counterfeit good workes as a Painter may make a man though lee cannot make a living man : So as long as wee are dead hearted wee dee but paint out good duties before God : all our Prayers are but painted prayers , all the good workes we doe, are but paint , there's none of them to the life' : As God (ayes of the Iewes , you w ill fay they did very many good workes , they Farted and Prayed, and Sacrificed, and many other things they did. But what layes God ? They are vani- ty,- their works; are nothing I fa. 4 r. 9. Asa dead Corps, there be Eyes, and noftrils and cares and mouth But when the life is out, they are as good as nothing : So it is with a dead heart, we may thinke we Preach much, and Rudy much, and hcare much, and profeffe much, and doe much : the truth is, .wee doe nothing. Secondly_ , all that vie,' date with a Dead heart, it does not plea feGod : God fàyes, My forme give mee thy bearr,Prov. 3. 14. Yee know the heart that is Primum vivens,that' the fiat hying thing in us :Now if wee give God never to many a.
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