And it is good to cast off these wandering thoughts with an Ejaculation to God*, else the destruction of one, will prove the generation of another. When Satan casts in his injaculations, lift you up your ejaculations. This will engage divine strength, and work God your friend. Do as they, Act. 19.34. When they thought Alexander would speak evil of Diana, they cried, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. So when these are injected then breath forth into some heavenly ⟨p. 193⟩ejaculations, so will you cross the tempter, and in stead of losing, gain*. Send up thy prayer in a Parenthesis, like that, Psal. 119.37. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken me in thy way —Forsake me not, O God, me strength— And take not thy Holy Spirit from me— Awake O North-wind, and come thou South, blow upon my Garden. These darting desires sent up with faith, will weaken the habits of corruption, and affright Satan from his suggestions. This resisting the Devil will make him flee from you: As the golden spikes were set on the Temple, to keep the Fowls from thence, so will these, being conscionably used, keep off vain thoughts from lodging upon your sacrifices. Up therefore and stir up thy self, by this means, to save thy sacrifice from being devoured, and thy soul polluted. Alas, we are daily told, and we feel it, that the heart is deceitful above all things; if a wary eye be not kept over it, you will find it sometimes in the bed of lust, sometimes on the pinnacle of honour, and often digging in the world, and yet salve up all with an I thank God, I am not as other hearts are. If ever you be rid of less guests, you must do, as good Barnabas advised them, ⟨p. 194⟩with full purpose of heart to cleave unto the Lord, Act. 11.23. There must be heart, purpose of heart, full purpose of heart, and then you will cleave unto the Lord.
And it is good to cast off these wandring thoughts with an Ejaculation to God*, else the destruction of one, will prove the generation of another. When Satan casts in his injaculations, lift you up your ejaculations. This will ingage divine strength, and work God your friend. Do as they, Act. 19.34. When they thought Alexander would speak evil of Diana, they cryed, Great is Diana of the Ephesians. So when these are injected then breath forth into some heavenly ⟨p. 193⟩ejaculations, so will you cross the tempter, and in stead of losing, gain*. Send up thy prayer in a Parenthesis, like that, Psal. 119.37. Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken me in thy way —Forsake me not, O God, me strength— And take not thy Holy Spirit from me— Awake O North-wind, and come thou South, blow upon my Garden. These darting desires sent up with faith, will weaken the habits of corruption, and affright Satan from his suggestions. This resisting the Devil will make him flee from you: As the golden spikes were set on the Temple, to keep the Fowls from thence, so will these, being conscionably used, keep off vain thoughts from lodging upon your sacrifices. Up therefore and stir up thy self, by this means, to save thy sacrifice from being devoured, and thy soul polluted. Alas, we are daily told, and we feel it, that the heart is deceitful above all things; if a wary eye be not kept over it, you will find it sometimes in the bed of lust, sometimes on the pinacle of honour, and often diging in the world, and yet salve up all with an I thank God, I am not as other hearts are. If ever you be rid of less guests, you must do, as good Barnabas advised them, ⟨p. 194⟩with full purpose of heart to cleave unto the Lord, Act. 11.23. There must be heart, purpose of heart, full purpose of heart, and then you will cleave unto the Lord.
- *Ideo Sacerdos ante Orat•onem prefatione praemissâ parrot fratrum merits dicendo, sursum corda, & respondet Plebs, habemus ad Dominum, ad•oneatu• nihil aliud se quam Dominum cogitare debere. Cyprian. de Orat. Dom.Ideo Sacerdos ante Orat•onem prefatione praemissâ parat fratrum mentes dicendo, sursum corda, & respondet Plebs, habemus ad Dominum, ad•oneatu• nihil aliud se quam Dominum cogitare debere. Cyprian. de Orat. Dom.
- *Cry unto God, Lord, wilt thou suffer thy slave to abuse thy child before thy face, while he is on his knees for a blessing. Dr. Harrison.
