^"...a +.-ti. µ.,,_ ;si'...", µ 'M''---.....= of InefeiivalRearing the vVord. found, which every one fayes,and they think is the word' but they, hear not God fpeaking it, One would wonder that thofe Jews that heard John and his Difciples, Mofes and the prophets, nay Gods voice from heaven , laying , This is my Sonne , that they fhouldnot heal this, and receive himwith all their hearts, but they did not hear his vciee. One would wonder to fee, that fuch things which a gracious heart thinks, this would draw every heart, yet main not ftirr'd, things which the devils tremble at, and others which Angels wonder an, -'yet they hear not. Oh they hear not God (peak, they are dead in their graves, farre from God ; and there thay are kepr by the mighty power of Satan, like one in a deep dark cave, kept by fiery dra- gons under the ground, and the tombftcne is laid upon them. if Chrift fpake he would make the dead to hear, and the blind to fee. Vfe 2. Hence fee why the Saints find fuch changes and alterations in themfelveswhen they come to hear ; fometimes their hearts are quickned, fed andcherifhed healed and comforted, relieved and vifited; fome- time again dead and fenfeleffe, heavy and hardned. mark 8. 17, i8, 2i. How is it ye do not underfland ? Nay which is more, that the fare z rt hwhich they hear at one time, Mould affelt them,and at another time Both notithe fame thing which they have heard a hundred limes, and never i irr'd them, at Ian fhould. The reafon is, they heard the Word ofGod fpoken at one time, but not God fpeak- ling ; and they heard the Lord fpeaking that fame Word at another time; the Lord is in his Word at one time,` the Word goes alone at another time ; as in . liah, the Lord was not, in the whirlwind, but he fpake in the f idvoice, and hence there he was to Elijah, Luke 24. a. with 32. not that you are to layblame on the Lord; for he blows where he lifteth; but to make us fee 'tis not in outward means, nor. 'cis not in our own fpirits to quicken our (elves and to make us afharned ofour own darkneffe, thatwhen he fi,eaks, yec we can- not hear, there is fo mach power of fpiritaal death and Satanyet within us, only out of his pitty he (peaks fome- times'; not that you fhnuld defpife the outward word; T33, no, the Lord is there fhining in Perfeaion ofglory, and that which doth thee no good, the Lord makes powerfull to forme others. Bat prize the Spirit ofGod in
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