8. The more grace, the more, business ye will find you have to do with God in his Ordinances; ⟨p. 200⟩little grace hath little to do, and much grace hath much to do; he hath always business with God, special earnest business, Psal. 27.4. One thing have I desired of the Lord — that I may dwell in the house of the Lord — and why? to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his Temple. O I have somewhat to inquire after, I am to do something by this duty, and therefore cannot trifle. He that comes to visit his friend in a complement, he talks, he walks, he trifles, and goes home again, but he that comes upon business, he is full of it: He is like Abraham's honest and faithful Servant, Gen. 24.33. And there was meat set before him to eat, but he said, I will not eat, till I have told mine errand. I have great business with the Lord, about the Church, and about my soul, and I will not eat, nor talk, nor think, nor dally about any thing, till I have told mine errand, or heard my Maker's errand unto me: And for this end, it's a rare thing to carry somewhat always on the spirit to spread before God, an heart pregnant with some needful request, or matter whereof to treat with God, Psal. 45.1. My heart is inditing a good matter, and then, my tongue shall be ⟨p. 201⟩like the pen of a ready Writer; O then I shall go merrily on in his service, when I have matter prepared in my heart. And indeed, as the Mariner sees further new stars, the further he sails, he loseth the sight of the old ones, and discovers new; so the growing Christian, the further he sails in Religion, he discovers new wants; new Scriptures affect him, new trials afflict him, new business he finds with God, and forgetting those things that are behind, he watcheth after those things that are before, and so finds every day new business with the Lord his God: and he that's busy trifles not; the more business, the less distractions. And therefore be advised all ye that intend for Heaven, to get more grace. It is as much as your duty to get the second grace, as it was your duty to get the first grace; and as the want of this would damn you, so a want in that will displease God, and that is as bad.
8. The more grace, the more, business ye will find you have to do with God in his Ordinances; ⟨p. 200⟩little grace hath little to do, and much grace hath much to do; he hath alwaies business with God, special earnest business, Psal. 27.4. One thing have I desired of the Lord — that I may dwell in the house of the Lord — and why? to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his Temple. O I have somewhat to inquire after, I am to do something by this duty, and therefore cannot trifle. He that comes to visit his friend in a complement, he talks, he walks, he trifles, and goes home again, but he that comes upon business, he is full of it: He is like Abraham's honest and faithful Servant, Gen. 24.33. And there was meat set before him to eat, but he said, I will not eat, till I have told mine errand. I have great business with the Lord, about the Church, and about my soul, and I will not eat, nor talk, nor think, nor dally about any thing, till I have told mine errand, or heard my Maker's errand unto me: And for this end, it's a rare thing to carry somewhat alwaies on the spirit to spread before God, an heart pregnant with some needful request, or matter whereof to treat with God, Psal. 45.1. My heart is inditing a good matter, and then, my tongue shall be ⟨p. 201⟩like the pen of a ready Writer; O then I shall go merrily on in his service, when I have matter prepared in my heart. And indeed, as the Mariner sees further new stars, the further he sails, he loseth the sight of the old ones, and discovers new; so the growing Christian, the further he sails in Religion, he discovers new wants; new Scriptures affect him, new tryals afflict him, new business he finds with God, and forgetting those things that are behind, he watcheth after those things that are before, and so finds every day new business with the Lord his God: and he that's busi• trifles not; the more business, the less distractions. And therefore be advised all ye that intend for Heaven, to get more grace. It is as much as your duty to get the second grace, as it was your duty to get the first grace; and as the want of this would damn you, so a want in that will displease God, and that is as bad.
