Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Secondly, To desire that which is good, 1 Pet. 2. 2. As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word. As if he should have said, there are no babes but they will desire the dug. Perhaps you may keep them quiet with apples a while, but they will cry for it at length. And if you have once tasted of the sweetness of the Word, you will desire it; when you have found out what meat is nourishing, then desire it; that is, choose the savourest meat, read the books that are must profitable, delight in them above others; and if we were truly thirsty and hungry we would do so. A thirsty man stands not to look at the carving of the cup, but drinks off the wine: and a hungry man had rather have a good meals meat, then hear a whole noise of musicians, and he will not stand commending, but he will fall to his meat, though this be too little practised; for many when the Word is delivered find no relish in it, but are ready to complain of the plainness, and simplicity of the spirit, which to do is to do as children, that bites the nipples of the teats that gives the sweetest milk. And this secondly shows their ⟨p. 285⟩vanity, for when they meet with a Sermon partly good, partly not, wherein Heterogenies are mixed (for otherwise I know not how better to call them) this is sure to go into their table books, I mean not sound and wholesome points, but pretty sayings, and frothy matters; and these are not unfitly compared to our siling bowls, that let all the milk run through, but retain the hairs and that which is nought, that sticks in them; for how choice soever their eloquence is, it is but as hairs in that case, although they be flowers in an oration, yet are they but weeds in a Sermon.

Secondly, To desire that which is good, 1 Pet. 2. 2. As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word. As if he should have said, there are no babes but they will desire the dugge. Perhaps you may keep them quiet with apples a while, but they will cry for it at length. And if you have once tasted of the sweetness of the Word, you will desire it; when you have found out what meat is nourishing, then desire it; that is, chuse the savourest meat, read the books that are must profitable, delight in them above others; and if we were truly thirsty and hungry we would do so. A thirsty man stands not to look at the carving of the cup, but drinks off the wine: and a hungry man had rather have a good meals meat, then hear a whole noise of musicians, and he will not stand commending, but he will fall to his meat, though this be too little practised; for many when the Word is delivered finde no relish in it, but are ready to complain of the plainness, and simplicity of the spirit, which to do is to do as children, that bites the nipples of the teats that gives the sweetest milk. And this secondly shews their