OE / MANS lee wced~sjna Field. As it is in a Cornefield, : except you weed it, . and till it, andplowit, . and · manure it, and never giue it over; it will be oyer.-growne with weedes;. and:wax Fallow·a- · gaine,and not be fit to beare ·Come with. any · conftancy; fo it is with our hearts, except we fi:ill plow them,. and weede them,. and watch over them:, they will be·r.eadictogrow fallow, they:will be readie to be overgrowne; _ there– fore. r tay' it is tlie propertie of a man that is p(r.ftelhe.is fiill returning, andlinaking up the breaches and : defeds; as we fee, 2.Iuh.8~ Let 'mloo/:e toottr flliles-, thitt wee l'Ofenot' the t-hings · that wee·kau·ewrought, hut ·thir.t ·weemayreceiue .«. foU-rewarod::·Marke, let·us Iooke to,our fe1urs, that-we lofe not the things we haue wrought; as-if he iliould fay, even·thofethat are perftff, that are found:liearted, there is this ·propertie in them, (though hedelivedt by way ofexhor• tatiop,yet it isa propertie rhat is· never feparate ftom them) they frill Iooke to ·themfelues, that tliey, lote ·not ·the things ·they haue wrought : -and fee-, ipyBeloved, there is great reafon for- it: for aman ·may lofe all that he hathwrought, he - may lofe his·reward·altogether, as youfee,Rev. · 3. r r. Take heede, hold-that thouhafl, lejlanother: tttke thy Crowne• You know, Ithtjh ·went farre, . ·e1nd fodidlehu,and ·fO did 'thofe lfraelites in the Wildernelfe; and· yet they lbft their reward, for not looking to themfelues: but this is for thofe that may i111 quite away: But for the E– lect, that -can never fall quite away, this di'Iig:~nc.e~.
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