466 The Soulet effeílaaall caring toChrift. this comes fomething neere faith, and there is force colour for hire toplead, that hee bath force confidence in God ; there are three things in Scripture that he faith for himfelfe, as Luke 8.13. the ftony ground there is the temporarie, and the text faith two things of him,That he receives the word with joy, and beleeveth for a time thefe two things are there averred, and are in the heart ofthisman ; the receivingofthe word with joy, is the tickling of the affeáions, with theappre henfìonof the fweetnefíe of the truth; and his beleeving, is not onely a bare aff'ent to the truth, but aworkeof the will in a kinde of hourlineffe in application; thefe fall fhort of the fpirituall worke, namely thus, when the treafures ofwif- domeand holineffe are laid open before the foule of a padre firmer, and when the unfearchable riches ofGods love inChrift are let in, and come home to theheart ofa ftony ground hearer, the will is tickled therewith, and his inward man is ftirred,andbedewed hourely with the fweetneflb thereof, this isthe beleeving fora time ; lohn i ,. 35 our Saviour faith,lohnwas aburning and aJbi ning light,andyouwere willingfor afeafon tobave re- joiced in his light ; one man that is at a loffe, and outofhis way, or another that is benummed and let with cold,the one feeth the fire,and is content to come to it to warme himfelfe, but when it burns him, away goes he ; fo theydelighted in the rninittery of John, and it was pretty good while it was new, but when it begun to fcorch, then they would heare him no more ä thus k was
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