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Now to show you how you should hear, When Peter & John would make the cripple attentive,¹ they said unto him, Look upon us: so, many to sharpen their attention, desire to stand before the preacher, that they may look him in the face. by this little help Peter showeth, that we had need to use many helps to make us hear well. In the thirteenth chapter, ⟨p. 650⟩& fifteenth verse of the Prophecy of Jeremiah when the Lord speaketh, it is said: Hear and give ear, as though we should hear and more than hear. This more than hear, is to mark, and understand, and remember, and believe, & follow that which we hear: Like the Jews which said, All which thou speakest from the Lord, we will do it: Exod. 24. So all that which we speak unto you from the Lord, you should do it: Therefore all the commandments but the last are commandments of doing. And Solomon in the twelfth Chapter of Ecclesiastes, and thirteenth verse, concludes his doctrine with this, which he calleth the sum of all: Fear the Lord and keep his commandments. In the third Chap- of Exodus, and the fifth verse, God teacheth us how to hear, when he speaks to Moses and bids him put off his shoes: So we should put off our lusts, & our thoughts, & our cares, and our fancies, and all our business, when God speaks, for he which thinks or doth any thing else, when he should do that which is better, though it be good which he doth, yet he doth sin in doing it.

Now to shew you how you should heare, When Peter & Iohn would make the cripple attentiue,¹ they said vnto him, Looke vpon vs: so, many to sharpen their attention, desire to stand before the preacher, that they may look him in the face. by this little help Peter sheweth, that we had need to vse many helpes to make vs heare well. In the thirteenth chapter, ⟨p. 650⟩& fifteenth verse of the Prophesie of Ieremie when the Lord speaketh, it is saide: Heare and giue eare, as though we should heare and more than heare. This more than heare, is to marke, and vnderstand, and remember, and beleeue, & follow that which we heare: Like the Iewes which said, All which thou speakest from the Lord, we will doe it: