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

It will not profit us except it be remembered and hid ¹in our hearts, we shall get no good by it; meat though it be eaten, yet if it stay not with us, it will not nourish us: unless therefore we labour to gather something from it, and retain it, it will not breed succum & sanguinem, nourishment in us as it ought. But this is much neglected of among men, for as many go into Gardens, some to see the variety of flowers, some to smell of them, but only it is the Bee that fastens on them and gets Honey out of them: So many come to Church, some to see what variety the Minister hath, some get sweetness for the time, but only they that do insider & notare, lay them up and mind them, get profit by them. See this in other things, let a man hear a Philosophy Lecture, or Logic, never so long, if he recalls not what he hears, it will be long enough ere he be an Artist, and are not Gods Ordinances much more to be respected?

It will not profit us except it be remembred and hid ¹in our hearts, we shall get no good by it; meat though it be eaten, yet if it stay not with us, it will not nourish us: unless therefore we labour to gather something from it, and retain it, it will not breed succum & sanguinem, nourishment in us as it ought. But this is much neglected of among men, for as many go into Gardens, some to see the variety of flowers, some to smell of them, but onely it is the Bee that fastens on them and gets Honey out of them: So many come to Church, some to see what variety the Minister hath, some get sweetness for the time, but onely they that do insidere & notare, lay them up and minde them, get profit by them. See this in other things, let a man hear a Philosophy Lecture, or Logick, never so long, if he recals not what he hears, it will be long enough ere he be an Artist, and are not Gods Ordinances much more to be respected?

1. 13.

Not respecting of it takes Gods name in vain, and the