The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

But in hearing, apply every speech as spoken to thy self, rather by^* God than by Man: and labour not so much to hear the words of the Preacher sounding in thine ear, as to feel the operation of the Spirit working in thy heart. Therefore it is said so often,^† Let him that hath an ear, hear what the Spirit speaks to the Church. And,³ Did not our hearts burn within as, whilst he opened unto us the Scriptures? And thus to hear the Word, hath^a a blessing promised thereto. It is the acceptablest ^bsacrificing of our selves unto God. It is the^c surest note of Christ's Saints; the^d truest mark of Christ's sheep; the^e apparentest sign of God's Elect; the very blood, as it were, which uniteth us to be the ^fspiritual kindred, brethren and sisters of the Son of God. This is the best art of Memory for a good hearer.

But in hearing, apply every speech as spoken to thy self, rather by^* God than by Man: and labour not so much to hear the words of the Preacher sounding in thine ear, as to feel the opperation of the Spirit working in thy heart. Therefore it is said so often,^† Let him that hath an ear, hear what the Spirit speaks to the Church. And,³