g t 8 In HO Places, Or, Secondly, a gracious heart purfues earthly things with aff-h;- ly indifferency, laving the violence and zeal of his fpiriefor the things ofheaven ; he ufeth the former as if he ufed them nor, with a kinde of non-attendency, his head and heart is taken upwith higher matters, how he may pleafe God, thrive in his grace, enjoy more intimate communion with Chrift in his Ordinances, in thefe he fpreads all his Nile; plyes all his oares, firains every part and power: thus we finde David up. on his full (peed ; Ady foul prefeth hard after thee, Pfal. 63, And before the Ark we finde him dancing with all his might. Now a carnal heart is clean contrary, his zeal is for the world, and his indifferency in the things of God, he prays as if he did not pray, &c. he fweats in his fhop, but chills and groves cold in his clofet ; 0 how hard to pully him up to a duty of Gods worfhip, or to get him out to an Ordinance ? No weather (hall keep him from the market; raine, blow or fnow he goes thi- ther ; but if the Church-path be a little wet, or the aire fome- what cold 'tis apology enough for him if his pue be empty ; when he is about any worldly bufineffe,he is as earnell at it,as the idolatrous Smith in hammering of his image ; who (the Prophet faith) worketh it with the 0rength of hifarmes, yea, he it hungry, andhis flrengthfaileth, he drinketh not, and isfaint, Ifs. 41. 12. fozealous is the muck%worme in hisworldly employments, that he will pinch his carcafe, and deny himfeifhis repaft in due fea. fon to purfue that; TheKitchin there (hall wait on the (hop: But in the worfhip of God, 'cis enough to make him lick of the Sermon, and angry with the Preacher, ifhe be kept beyond his home ; here the Sermon mull give place to the Kitchin fo the man for his pleafures and carnal paftime, he tells no clock at his fports, and knows not how the day goes; when night .comes, he is angry that it takes him off; but at any heavenly work, 0how is the man punifh't ? time now path got leaden heels he thinks ; all he does at a Sermon is to tell the clock, and fee how the glafre runs : if men were not willing to deceive themfelves, Barely they might know which way their heart goes by the fwift motion, or the hard tugging and flow pace it airs, as well as theyknow in a boat, whether they row againft the cycle, or with it. Thirdly, the Chriftian ufeth thefe things with a holy feare, left
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