Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

THIS therefore we are to enquire into: Doth it abide in us as formerly? We hear the Word preached as much as ever; but do we do it with the same desire and Spiritual Relish as before? Some hear to satisfy their Convictions, some to please their Fancies, and some to judge of the Persons by whom it is dispensed. It is but in few that the necessary preparation for the due receiving of it are found.

THIS therefore we are to enquire into: Doth it abide in us as formerly? We hear the Word preached as much as ever; but do we do it with the same desire and Spiritual Relish as before? Some hear to satisfie their Convictions, some to please their Fancies, and some to judge of the Persons by whom it is dispensed. It is but in few that the necessary preparation for the due receiving of it are found.

WHEN Men grow in Age, they lose much of their Natural Appetite unto Food; they must eat still for the maintenance of Life, but they do it not with that desire after it, and that gust in it as in the days of Youth and Health. Hence they are apt to think, that the meat which they had formerly was more savoury than what is now provided for them; though what they now enjoy is much to be preferred before what they then had: the change is in themselves. So we may find not a few Professors, who are ready to think and say, that the preaching which they had in former days, and the Religious Exercises which they were engaged in, were far to be preferred above what they now enjoy. But the Change is in themselves, they have lost their Spiritual Appetite, or their hunger and thirst after the Food of their Souls.

WHEN Men grow in Age, they lose much of their Natural Appetite unto Food; they must eat still for the maintenance of Life, but they do it not with that desire after it, and that gust in it as in the days of Youth and Health. Hence they are apt to think, that the meat which they had formerly was more savoury than what is now provided for them; though what they now enjoy is much to be preferred before what they then had: the change is in themselves. So we may find not a few Professors, who are ready to think and say, that the preaching which they had in former days, and the Religious Exercises which they were ingaged in, were far to be preferred above what they now enjoy. But the Change is in themselves, they have lost their Spiritual Appetite, or their hunger and thirst after the Food of their Souls.