Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

2. Do you respect the Word of the Gospel, entertain it with Reverence, and Delight; as the Voice of the great Prophet? Do you meditate on it, digest it as the seed of the new Life, as the rule of your actions, as the Charter of your Hopes? A good man is described to be one that delighteth in the Law of the Lord, and meditateth therein day and night, Psal. 1. 2. and again Psal. 119. 97. Oh how I love thy Law, it is my Meditation all the day long. But alas few are of this temper, Hos. 8. 12. I have written to them the great things of thy Law, but they were counted as a strange thing, they contemned the Word of God, as if its directions were of little importance, or did not concern them. Most men live like strangers to the Word of God, little conversant ⟨p. 177⟩in it, as if there were no great hazard in breaking it.

3. Do you mingle it with Faith in the hearing, that it may profit you, Heb. 4. 2. and feel the power of it for your good, but rather you shun it, run from it, John 3. 20. They that do evil hate the light, and will not come to the light, least their deeds should be reproved. The Word is a torment, rather then a comfort to you, you are afraid it will be found too true.

3. Do you mingle it with Faith in the hearing, that it may profit you, Heb. 4. 2. and feel the power of it for your good, but rather you shun it, run from it,