A Saint Indeed

1. Help. Sequester your selves from all earthly employments, and set apart ⟨p. 105⟩some time for solemn preparation to meet God in duty: you cannot come seeking hot out of the world into Gods presence, but you will find a tang of it in your duties; it is with the heart a few minutes since plunged in the world, now at the feet of God, just as with the sea after a storm, which still continues working, muddy and disquiet, though the wind be laid and storm over: thy heart must have some time to settle. There are few Musicians that can take down a lure, or viol and play presently upon it, without some time to tune it; there are few Christians can presently say as, Psal. 57. 7. O God, my heart is fixed, it is fixed. O when thou goest to God in any duty, take thy heart aside and say, O my Soul, I am now addressing my self to the greatest work that ever a Creature was employed about: I am going into the awful presence of God about business of everlasting moment.

1. Help. Sequester your selves from all earthly imployments, and set apart ⟨p. 105⟩some time for solemn preparation to meet God in duty: you cannot come seeking hot out of the world into Gods presence, but you will find a tang of it in your duties; it is with the heart a few minutes since plunged in the world, now at the feet of God, just as with the sea after a storm, which still continues working, muddy and disquiet, though the wind be laid and st•rm over: thy heart must have some time to settle. There are few Musicians that can take down a lure, or viol and play presently upon it, without some time to tune it; there are few Christians can presently say as, Psal. 57. 7. O God, my heart is fixed, it is fixed. O when thou goest to God in any duty, take thy heart aside and say, O my Soul, I am now addressing my self to the greatest work that ever a Creature was imployed about: I am going into the awful presence of God about business of everlasting moment.