Oh! many of you, at some times you have one argument 1that sticks at your hearts, and at another time there's another; at such a time there was some one truth darted in, and it took your hearts, and you would say as those that went to Emmaus, Did not we find our hearts burn within us? so you found Truths coming in at such a Sermon, and at another, and another; yea, but now could you get but all those arguments that ever God did dart into you to ways of repentance, could you but get them together, and work them upon your hearts, and never leave till they be kindled, and be crying to God as Elisha did, till he got fire to come from Heaven to consume the Sacrifice: Oh Lord, my heart hath a deal of watery stuff in it that will not kindle, till the fire of the holy Ghost come to kindle these arguments and make them to burn; Oh! if it were with us, as David in Psal. 39. 31. saith he, While I was musing, my heart was hot within ⟨p. 164⟩me, and the fire burned: so we should go into our closets and be gathering all things together that we can to work upon our hearts, and continue muffing till we find the fire burning within us. Nay, our hearts heat so, as to break forth with our tongues, and even to say from our souls, Well, the Lord is God, it is he that is worthy for ever to be feared, and honoured, and served, I have lived like a base, and sinful, wretched creature, without a God in the world, but it's the Lord that is God, that is worthy to be honoured, from my Body, and Soul, and Estate, and Name, and Liberty, and Life, and whatsoever I am, or can do; now if it would break forth in such a resolution, how excellent would it be? Oh! let us be humbled I beseech you for the coldness of our hearts, that nothing can kindle there; What a damp is there upon our spirits, that when any argument is laid it goes out presently? We have Truths laid upon us when we come to 2the Word, but our dampy hearts quenches them all, they do not kindle; many are witty enough to gather arguments for sin, and lay them upon their hearts, and so to kindle wickedness in their hearts, as in Psal. 41. 6. 3you have a notable Scripture there of wicked men that came to David, They gathered iniquity in their hearts;
Oh! many of you, at some times you have one argument 1that sticks at your hearts, and at another time there's another; at such a time there was some one truth darted in, and it took your hearts, and you would say as those that went to Emaus, Did not we find our hearts burn within us? so you found Truths coming in at such a Sermon, and at another, and another; yea, but now could you get but all those arguments that ever God did dart into you to waies of repentance, could you but get them together, and work them upon your hearts, and never leave till they be kindled, and be crying to God as Elisha did, till he got fire to come from Heaven to consume the Sacrifice: Oh Lord, my heart hath a deal of waterie stuff in it that will not kindle, till the fire of the holy Ghost come to kindle these arguments and make them to burn; Oh! if it were with us, as David in Psal. 39. 31. saith he, While I was musing, my heart was hot within ⟨p. 164⟩me, and the fire burned: so we should go into our closets and be gathering all things together that we can to work upon our hearts, and continue mufing till we find the fire burning within us. Nay, our hearts heat so, as to break forth with our tongues, and even to say from our souls, Well, the Lord is God, it is he that is worthy for ever to be feared, and honored, and serv'd, I have lived like a base, and sinful, wretched creature, without a God in the world, but it's the Lord that is God, that is worthy to be honored, from my Bodie, and Soul, and Estate, and Name, and Liberty, and Life, and whatsoever I am, or can do; now if it would break forth in such a resolution, how excellent would it be? Oh! let us be humbled I beseech you for the coldness of our hearts, that nothing can kindle there; What a damp is there upon our spirits, that when any argument is laid it goes out presently? We have Truths laid upon us when we come to 2the Word, but our dampie hearts quenches them all, they do not kindle; many are wittie enough to gather arguments for sin, and lay them upon their hearts, and so to kindle wickedness in their hearts, as in Psal. 41. 6. 3you have a notable Scripture there of wicked men that came to David, They gathered iniquity in their hearts;
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