2. CHRISTS Wrm that have this grace ? O if it bee not I, O let it be I ; a quic- kened nrinde, is an applying minde ; now if the winde be yet dead, it cares not for applying, though it knew never lo much, yet it lets the word fill be a (ranger unto it, it does not take it home to it felfe ; like the Hearers there in Hofea ; as Goer layes, J writ to them the great things of My Law, hart they were counted as a flravge Thing, Iol.i .1 z. They would not take them home, now a quickened winde takes them home ; this repr9ofe is to me; this Commandement is to me ; nay, when a reproofs to ones thinking of all other fhould (tome leaf to concerne him ; as when our Saviour Chrif fpake again( Rich men ; O how hardly (hall a rich man enter into the Kingdoms of God ! yet the Arotles took it to them felves ; they were amazed fayes the Text, lvlatth. 19.25. One would have thought tFe doé}rine fhouuld little concerne them ; alas, they were not fdrich, but they applyed it though, fearing leaf that little that they had mould draw their hearts away from God ; this then is the firft. Secondly, the meditating of the Mind ; this is another flirting as of the winde ; a naturall man may think of Lis eternall good now and then, but this is nothing, his winde is dead for all that. But when a mans winde runnes on filch_ things, now it is alive ; look what your mindes doe run on, that your mindes are alive to ; Becaule it is roof certaine, that that is ìt which you relpeec molt ; as David layes ; J will meditate on thy precepts, and have re fpe7P unto thy wares, Plal.r19.1S. A dead mind may light on goodthoughts' but when a man meditates of them, when his winde runneth up- on fuch themes ; this mans winde is alive to them, he, gives his winde to them ; as Paul layes to Timothy ; Meditate on tbefe things, give thy felfe wholly to them, that thy pro - fitting may appears, a Ttm.¢.1 ç. You may fee this in un- godly men, they doe not onely thinke of the world, for fo a godly man may doe and mull doe, but their mindes runde on the world; they give their úlitides to it ; . It is the Apofles laying; They minds earthly things, Phil.4.19. Je may be they
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