Use 3. If Christ be a Word of Life, a living and a quickening word, then when we find our hearts dead and dull, and indisposed to good duties, run we and seek unto him for life and quickening, Psal. 119.37, 40. If we be afflicted in Conscience, and esteem our selves as dead men, in regard of the apprehension of Gods Wrath, and the want of the life of Justification, then let us seek to him, Psal. 119.107. & 28. If we fear, that though we find some life of grace, yet we shall be unfruitful, and dead unto God, except we be strengthened and quickened more then ordinary, here again let us seek unto this Word of Life, Luke 17.5. Mark 9.24. In the midst of our entertainment of many of our acquaintance (as Hezekiah did) 2 Kings 20.13. who might have taken an excellent opportunity of sanctifying Gods name, considering the occasion of their coming, 2 Chron. 32.31. he might have wrought on them to have embraced the true worship of such a God, Deut. 32.31. And so indeed did Moses upon Jethro, Exod. 18.8, 9, 10, 11, 12. and in the liberal use of Gods Creatures, an easy matter it is to forget God, and to be dead and unfruitful unto him; here then seek to this Word of Life, but always seek we in humility, and consciousness of our own weakness, and then God will delight to quicken us.
Ʋse 3. If Christ be a Word of Life, a living and a quickning word, then when we finde our hearts dead and dull, and indisposed to good duties, run we and seek unto him for life and quickning, Psal. 119.37, 40. If we be afflicted in Conscience, and esteem our selves as dead men, in regard of the apprehension of Gods Wrath, and the want of the life of Justification, then let us seek to him, Psal. 119.107. & 28. If we fear, that though we finde some life of grace, yet we shall be unfruitfull, and dead unto God, except we be strengthened and quickned more then ordinary, here againe let us seek unto this Word of Life, Luke 17.5. Mark 9.24. In the midst of our entertainment of many of our acquaintance (as Hezekiah did) 2 Kings 20.13. who might have taken an excellent opportunity of sanctifying Gods name, considering the occasion of their coming, 2 Chron. 32.31. he might have wrought on them to have embraced the true worship of such a God, Deut. 32.31. And so indeed did Moses upon Jethro, Exod. 18.8, 9, 10, 11, 12. and in the liberall use of Gods Creatures, an easie matter it is to forget God, and to be dead and unfruitfull unto him; here then seek to this Word of Life, but alwayes seek we in humility, and consciousnesse of our own weaknesse, and then God will delight to quicken us.
