te drelefie SAINT S. 245 whir to Humiliation before God. But rvhen the minds comes once to confider, then it (hakes off its dulnef e and remifhnefle, then it growes bu(ie, fuck a man will not goe to Prayer, but he confiders what he goes about, what a great God he is to ípeaketo, what a vile creature himfelfe is that is to pray to him ; he will confider how he may pray with faith and hope and feeling of his wants; how he may rite up from his knees not without profit. N ow he will not goe to the word, but he will confider what it is he repaires to, now all his mind is bow he may get good, now he is buhe in every duty ; when he is tempted to doe as others doe, he confiders what the iffue will be, and this makes him forbeare. Beloved, this is the life ofour mindes, when they confider thing; when we confi- der our latter end , when we confider Gods promifes when we confider his threatenings, when we take his Commande- ments into our deep confideration, when we confider the dan- ger of finne, we doe net onely know all theft things but we confider them. Though we know neere ío much, yet except we confider what we know, our mindes are lumpifh and dead ; confideration is the a &ivity of the mmde ; and there - fore if we would prove our iclves to bealive towards God, let us put on cenfideration a day es. Fourthly, the Remembring of the mind ; when the mind for- gets it felfe every day, this is nothing but the deadneffe of the minds ; for if it be alive to a thing, it will be fare to remember it felfe of that, if it can ; CA* a Maid forget her arnaneents,or a Bride her Attire t Tst "maple have forgotten rye da es with - out number, }er.a.3 z. That is, my people are dead- minded to me ; if they regarded me, they would remember thenrfelvcs e- very day, to ferve me ; looke what a man is alive to,the mind will be furs to remember us of that; we can have no journy ro take,but our minds remember us of it ; no bufinellè to doe, to feed out Cattle, to milk our Kine every morning,and evening, tofheare ourlheepe every 14111011146, if wee forget any thing in this kind, prelently it's a hundred to one, but we remember our (elves : Now when a man is alive to the belt things in force I i 3 mea-
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