z34 I CHRIS 6T'S Maim day of God and his Kingdome and of eteraall life ; they are all the day Undying of J&us Chritl, and of faith and repen- tapce, perhaps they thinke this is heavenly niindedneéfe. O they love a life to Rudy Divinty ; as the Jewes laid, We de- light to knew thy wayes, Ilà.58.z. J grant ftudying is an intenfe a& of the Minde, but that it is a lively a& of the mink, that Jdeny; that is not alwayesfó; nay, Sudying may be in the highest degree in a winde that is dead to what it flu.dies, though_ never io eager to it, as it is fetbile ofdivine things : for what is Sudying ? Studying is -nothing ale but the booking out of the logique in the Scripture ; now if a man reft there, het is never the neerer , Wit doe not recoyle on his owne winde, when he {ladies ofGrace, if he doe not lick how to get it; when he ßudies the fall of Adam, and original! finite, if he doe not get it mortified in himfelfe, all th;s is nothing ; we fee the poore Pimple Ignorant people ran after Je,us Chr ft, when the yretx Studerts of Divinity were fo farce from doing fo that they late and derided them for their labour , yea, and called them filly Simplicians , as it had been a giddy humour in them ; therefore Studying cannot be it neither. Well, then it remaines to Chew you what is the life of the Mind, that if the winde doe give that unto God, it is alive towards God, J anfwer. All there are the dull aóls of.the winde, they may be in the minde concerning God and all his wayes, yea, in a very high degree, and yet the minde dead to- wards the fame. The Apoftle tels the Jewes in his feeond Epiftle and the firft Chapter, That thej knew all theft things before ; I but, fives be in the third Chapter andthe firfi werfe, J would three up your mindes, that is, J would quicken up your mindes; as we ufe to fay, when a than lookes about him ; when a man gives his winde to a cling, this is the flirrinas of the minde, now the mind; isquickened up. Now there be fix flirting alts in the mimics of men ; and looke which way they /tad, it's molt plaine the winde is a- live, whether to God, er to the things of the world. . The
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