Hooker - BT780 H7 1637

thesouks efeEua;fcaßing to Chrift. you mutt ditill them by meditation. I, but force foules may fay.Wehavedone thus Ob® often,butyet return asempne as before. I anGver,You fhould have Raid longer upon the Anfiv! promife, it mutt notbee at your carvingand dif- poliing: in reafon, a manmuff fwallow his pills, andeathis cordials ; but wee fhould doe the con- trarie, we (hould chew the promifes, and tit is doneby meditatingon them : but we fwallowthe precious promifes of Chrift that fhould comfort us, therefore chew them, ifyou defare comfort, o- ver andover again ; eat thefe daily, and you fhall finde muchcomfort and confolation therein, and benefit thereby. Terrour : we may fee thehopeleflë conditionW.Yfe 4, thofe men that live under the Gofpell, and their hearts are not wrought upon them. If the Spirit ofGod,and the Gofpell of God, will not works upon thee : if thou haft the eye ofa man about thee, thou maift fee thy wofull and lamentable condition. Ifabungling fervant cannot tell how to hew a peece of wood for a building; it is no marvell 5 but ifit be fueh a peece, that thematter Carpenter cannot make it fit for the building, then it is good for nothing but to be burned : So it ishere with the foule, iftheSpirit of Godcan doe theeno good, who can? ifwe, acompanic of bunglers cannot doeit, no marvell56ut ifour ma- fter Chrift, if h° takes a ftubborne fturdieheart in hand,and cannot doe it, it isfit tobeedamned. Is not that man miferably ignorant, that wifedoú e it felfecannot make wife? is not he fickeoffinne, K whom

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