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10 This reproves those who all their life remain dull and sluggish in religion, that like Carriers horses keep their ordinary pace, they will not go beyond their bating place, they are like Dromedaries, swift in the ways of sin, but like the dull Ass, slow in the ways of God. The firstling of other beasts was to be offered to God, but not the firstling of an ass, Exod. 13. 13. And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem ¹with a lamb, and if thou wilt not redeem it thou shalt break its neck; to note that of sluggish and dull hearts, the very best services are not acceptable to God. The snail is reckoned among the unclean creatures, Levit. 11. 30. Those hearts that are of this ²dull constitution are impure and odious in the sight of God. And thus much shall serve by way of reproof.

10 This reproves those who all their life remain dull and sluggish in religion, that like Carriers horses keep their ordinary pace, they will not go beyond their bating place, they are like Dromedaries, swift in the wayes of sin, but like the dull Asse, slow in the vvayes of God. The firstling of other beasts was to be offered to God, but not the firstling of an asse, Exod. 13. 13. And every firstling of an asse thou shalt redeem ¹with a lamb, and if thou wilt not redeem it thou shalt break its neck; to note that of sluggish and dull hearts, the very best services are not acceptable to God. The snail is reckoned among the unclean creatures, Levit. 11. 30. Those hearts that are of this ²dull constitution are impure and odious in the sight of God. And thus much shall serve by way of reproof.

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