CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

3. When the affections are very fervent and zealous, then it cannot but they will express the same thing again: It's not want of matter but height of affection and zeal that makes the tongue utter the same thing twice, as Gal. 4.6. it's said The Spirit of God is sent into our hearts whereby we cry Abba Father; Here is an Ingemination, we cry Father, Father, and why so? the Spirit of God doth so kindle and inflame the heart, that it's so sweetly and passionately affected, that as he said pro dulcedine vix labris expedire possit, he is unwilling to let this honey out of his mouth: As Peter when he was in the Transfiguration said, It's good to be here; So the heart of a godly man thus filialized by the holy Ghost, cannot but utter the same dear relation over and over; It's usual with the Hebrews when they would express their earnest affection and desire to a thing, to double it, and when Esau was in that great extremity, and desired Jacobs pottage, he crieth out, Give me of thy red pottage, as it's in the Original; The heart that is strongly affected and zealously drawn out is not contented with once naming of that, which he so much desireth, so that commonly cold and customary prayers have no ingeminations.

3. When the affections are very fervent and zealous, then it cannot but they will expresse the same thing again: It's not want of matter but height of affection and zeal that makes the tongue utter the same thing twice, as Gal. 4.6. it's said The Spirit of God is sent into our hearts whereby we cry Abba Father; Here is an Ingemination, we cry Father, Father, and why so? the Spirit of God doth so kindle and inflame the heart, that it's so sweetly and passionately affected, that as he said pro dulcedine vix labris expedire possit, he is unwilling to let this hony out of his mouth: As Peter when he was in the Transfiguration said, It's good to be here; So the heart of a godly man thus filialized by the holy Ghost, cannot but utter the same dear relation over and over; It's usuall with the Hebrews when they would expresse their earnest affection and desire to a thing, to double it, and when Esau was in that great extremity, and desired Jacobs pottage, he crieth out, Give me of thy red pottage, as it's in the Original; The heart that is strongly affected and zealously drawn out is not contented with once naming of that, which he so much desireth, so that commonly cold and customary praiers have no ingeminations.