The Practice of Piety

Whilst the Preacher is expounding and applying the word of the Lord: look upon him; for it is a great ⟨p. 596⟩help to stir up thine attention, and to keep thee from wandering thoughts, so the eyes of all that were in the Synagogues, ¹are said to be fastened on Christ whilst he preached: and that all the people hanged upon him when they heard him. ²Remember that thou art there as one of Christs Disciples, to learn the knowledge of salvation, by the remission of sins, through the tender mercy God. Luk. 77.

Whilest the Preacher is expounding and applying the word of the Lord: looke vpon him; for it is a great ⟨p. 596⟩helpe to stirre vp thine attention, and to keepe thee from wandring thoughts, so the eyes of all that were in the Synagogues, ¹are said to be fastned on Christ whilest he preached: and that all the people hanged vpon him when they heard him. ²Remember that thou art there as one of Christs Disciples, to learne the knowledge of saluation, by the remission of sinnes, through the tender mercy God. Luk. 77.

1. 1Luk. 4.20.
2. 2Luk. 19.48.

Be not therefore in the School of Christ, like an idle boy in a Grammar school, that often heareth, but never learneth his lesson: and still goeth to School, but profiteth nothing. Thou hatest it in a child; Christ detesteth it in thee. To the end