But the 5th Property of a heavenly disposition is to cause the man reflect upon himself and his own sleepiness.1 8—my self will awake early. What if tongue and voice awake? ⟨p. 305⟩what if harp and the gift of music wake, if mans heart sleep? 1. Grace hath an immanent working, and a reflect acting on it self and the mans own heart as well as a transient, and a direct acting: the vessel of honour, or the chosen man purgeth himself, 2 Tim. 2. 21. And every man that hath this hope purifies himself, even as he also is pure. 1 John 3. 3. Jude exhorts so v. 10. Building up your selves on your most holy faith, praying in the holy Ghost. Some think if the holy Ghost act, pray, sigh, believe, praise in them, they need to do nothing, the holy Ghost prays in me, and in my stead. Nay but Jude wills you to edify your self: the actings and influences of the holy Ghost are not given to this end, that we should sleep, and sport, and play. 21. Keep your selves in the love of God. Will not the love of God keep the man in the love of God? Shall not Christ in you the hope of glory keep Christ himself in you? nay what need were there then of watching? Watch thou in all things, 1 Tim. 4. 16. Take heed to thy self and to thy doctrine. Then may one take heed to reading, and not take heed to himself, Acts 20. 28. Paul to the Elders of Ephesus, Take heed to your selves and to the flock. They shall not heedfully watch over the flock, who do not carefully watch over themselves. Is this right, that men should doubt of the influences of God, and fear that God forgets himself and his own begun work of grace, and never fear their own lazy back-drawing? Why but we should be on our wings, and waken our selves, and crow more loudly. It's a gracious complaint, Cant. 1. 6. My mothers children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Ask hourly what your own heart does, how the husbandry at home thrives. The Spirit of the Lord was in Jehoshaphat without doubt; but 2 Chro. 20. 3. When he heard of the host coming against him, he feared, and set himself to seek the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel, but he was not idle, but prophesied and stirred up himself to believe. Often it's said the Spirit of the Lord came upon Sampson, yet so as Sampson roused up himself, and shook himself, Judg. 16. 20.
But the 5th Property of a heavenly disposition is to cause the man reflect upon himself and his own sleepinesse.1 8—my self will awake early. What if tongue and voice awake? ⟨p. 305⟩what if harp and the gift of musick wake, if mans heart sleep? 1. Grace hath an immanent working, and a reflect acting on it self and the mans own heart as well as a transient, and a direct acting: the vessel of honour, or the chosen man purgeth himself, 2 Tim. 2. 21. And every man that hath this hope purifies himself, even as he also is pure. 1 John 3. 3. Jude exhorts so v. 10. Building up your selves on your most holy faith, praying in the holy Ghost. Some think if the holy Ghost act, pray, sigh, believe, praise in them, they need to doe nothing, the holy Ghost prayes in me, and in my stead. Nay but Jude wills you to edifie your self: the actings and influences of the holy Ghost are not given to this end, that we should sleep, and sport, and play. 21. Keep your selves in the love of God. Will not the love of God keep the man in the love of God? Shall not Christ in you the hope of glory keep Christ himself in you? nay what need were there then of watching? Watch thou in all things, 1 Tim. 4. 16. Take heed to thy self and to thy doctrine. Then may one take heed to reading, and not take heed to himself, Acts 20. 28. Paul to the Elders of Ephesus, Take heed to your selves and to the flock. They shall not heedfully watch over the flock, who doe not carefully watch over themselves. Is this right, that men should doubt of the influences of God, and fear that God forgets himself and his own begun work of grace, and never fear their own lazy back-drawing? Why but we should be on our wings, and waken our selves, and crow more loudly. It's a gracious complaint, Cant. 1. 6. My mothers children were angry with me, they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Ask hourly what your own heart does, how the husbandry at home thrives. The Spirit of the Lord was in Jehoshaphat without doubt; but 2 Chro. 20. 3. When he heard of the host coming against him, he feared, and set himself to seek the Lord. The Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel, but he was not idle, but prophesied and stirred up himself to believe. Often it's said the Spirit of the Lord came upon Sampson, yet so as Sampson roused up himself, and shook himself,
- 1Heavenly dispositions cause a man act upon himself.Heavenly dispositions cause a man act upo• himself.
