The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

3. Beware of remissness in duty: ^*when you begin to slacken the reins, and abate your former heat, and vigour in Religion, there steals insensibly a deadness upon the heart, and by degrees there ariseth a sad estrangement between God and the Soul. And Brethren, how hard a Work will you find it to get your hearts up again, when they are once down. A weighty stone, that hath been rolled up to the top of a steep hill, and then falls down to the bottom, how hard is it to get it up again!

3. Beware of remisness in duty: ^*when you begin to slacken the reins, and abate your former heat, and vigour in Religion, there steals insensibly a deadness upon the heart, and by degrees there ariseth a sad estrangement between God and the Soul. And Brethren, how hard a Work will you finde it to get your hearts up again, when they are once down. A weighty stone, that hath been rowled up to the top of a steep hill, and then falls down to the bottom, how hard is it to get it up again!

1. *Sic putamus orâsse Jonam? sic Danielem inter leones? Sic latronem in Cruce? Hierom.

Oh take heed of a dull, lazy temper in Gods service: we are bid to be fervent in spirit, Rom. ⟨p. 323⟩12.11. [Greek or Hebrew]. ¹The Athenians enquiring at the Oracle of Apollo why their plagues did continue so long; the Oracle answered them; they must duplare aram, double their Sacrifices