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2. When they are not so vigorous in motion. A man that is lively and stirring at his work, it is a sign he is in health; but when he is listless, and cares not to stir, or put his hand to any thing; a sign nature is a declining. So when men have no heart to that which is good, they care not to put themselves upon the exercises of Religion; they have lost a spirit of activity for God; ⟨p. 106⟩they serve him in a faint sickly manner; 'tis a sign they are consumptive.

2. When they are not so vigorous in motion. A man that is lively and stiring at his work, it is a sign he is in health; but when he is listless, and cares not to stir, or put his hand to any thing; a sign nature is a declining. So when men have no heart to that which is good, they care not to put themselves upon the exercises of Religion; they have lost a spirit of activity for God; ⟨p. 106⟩they serve him in a faint sickly manner; 'tis a sign they are consumptive.

When the pulse can scarce be felt, it beats so low; men are near dying: So when those who were once violent for Heaven, but now we can scarce perceive any good in them, the pulse beats low, grace is ready to dye, Rev. 3. 2. ^*To you who have abated in your holy violence, and are grown remiss in duty, let me expostulate with you, as the Lord did by the Prophet, Jer. 2. 5. What iniquity have your Fathers found in me? What evil have you found in God, that you leave off your former strictness? Hath not God fed you with Manna from above, and given you his holy Spirit to be your guide and comforter? Hath he not made you swim in a Sea of mercy? What evil have you found in Prayer, that you are less violent in it? Have not you had sweet intercourse with God? Have not you sometimes been melted and enlarged, insomuch that you have thought your selves in the suburbs of Heaven when you have been upon this Mount? Hath not the Dove of Prayer brought an Olive branch of peace in its mouth? What