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And keep your selves in a continual readiness ⟨p. 702⟩¹whensoever God shall call you to such a glorious recompense of reward as this is. It is said of Daniel, though he was in Babylon, he opened his windows towards Jerusalem, he kept his heart in a readiness to go: So you should do, keep your hearts in a heavenly frame ready for heaven, waiting upon the Bridegroom with your lamps burning, that when he comes you may open immediately to him. There is a difference between a wife that hath been faithful to her husband, and waits for his coming home, and another that hath been unfaithful to her husband, and hath other lovers in the house when her husband knocks; if her husband knocks, she doth not go immediately, but there is shuffling up and down, and she delays the time, till she have got the other out of the house; but a faithful wife, she immediately opens; it is true, though the wife be not unfaithful, yet if the house be not handsome, and things be not prepared, she is loth to open: So Christians they have been dallying with their lusts, and their hearts are out of frame, and they are loth to open to Christ; but we should keep our hearts in such a readiness, as immediately to open to Christ, and to be willing to dye.

And keep your selves in a continual readiness ⟨p. 702⟩¹whensoever God shall call you to such a glorious recompence of reward as this is. It is said of Daniel, though he was in Babylon, he opened his windows towards Jerusalem, he kept his heart in a readiness to go: So you should do, keep your hearts in a heavenly frame ready for heaven, waiting upon the Bridegroom with your lamps burning, that when he comes you may open immediately to him. There is a difference between a wife that hath been faithful to her husband, and waits for his coming home, and another that hath been unfaithful to her husband, and hath other lovers in the house when her husband knocks; if her husband knocks, she doth not go immediately, but there is shuffling up and down, and she delays the time, till she have got the other out of the house; but a faithful wife, she immediately opens; it is true, though the wife be not unfaithful, yet if the house be not handsom, and things be not prepared, she is loth to open: So Christians they have been dallying with their lusts, and their hearts are out of frame, and they are loth to open to Christ; but we should keep our hearts in such a readiness, as immediately to open to Christ, and to be willing to dye.