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Is it one of the great things for which ye blame and find fault with your selves before God? And though your outside and visible Conversation be blameless: yet while you look on the carnalness and earthliness of your mind, and on the want of this Divine and heavenly frame of soul, it makes you hang the head, mars your boldness, and (as it were) lays your feathers: because, do what ye can, your heart will not abide in heaven: If it be thus, It's a token for good, and some ground of peace: but O! How rare is this? many of you, be like, have often overly prayed, Forgive us our sins; who never took with, nor prayed for the Pardon of this sin: but have lien down at night and risen up in the morning, having your hearts plunged and puddled in the world, without once minding heaven in earnest, and yet have never been challenged for it: Q sad state!

Is it one of the great things for which ye blame and find fault with your selves before God? And though your outside and visible Conversation be blameless: yet while you look on the carnalness and earthliness of your mind, and on the want of this Divine and heavenly frame of soul, it makes you hang the head, marres your boldness, and (as it were) layes your feathers: because, do what ye can, your heart will not abide in heaven: If it be thus, It's a token for good, and some ground of peace: but O! How rare is this? many of you, be like, have often overly prayed, Forgive us our sins; who never took with, nor prayed for the Pardon of this sin: but have lyen down at night and risen up in the morning, having your hearts plunged and pudled in the world, without once minding heaven in earnest, and yet have never been challenged for it: Q sad state!

The Third Use Serves to Reprove and Expostulate for this unworthy carriage; for having either nothing at all, or but very little of a Conversation in Heaven: We take it for granted, that many of us are far from it, and that all of us are little in it; but very few even of the best are daily and constantly Conversing in Heaven; Alas! it's but now and then with many sad interruptions. For quickening this reproof and expostulation a little, let me propose these few Queries to you; and in the First place, do ye not know that the neglect of this is a sin and the breach of a Command; Be ye followers of me? 2. Is not this an excellent duty and royal privilege, to be admitted to converse in Heaven? And therefore the neglect of it must not only be a sin, but a great sin, even a trampling on the Grace of God, a slighting of heaven and of a most noble privilege and dignity. 3. Think ye Heaven to be of great worth; if so, must not conversing in heaven be of much worth? Will ye never so much as once go to see the house, wherein ye say ye are to dwell? Q! How unsuitable a thing is it, that those who are but days men here, should sit down and settle on the earth without minding Heaven, and be so confined within time, as not seriously to mind eternity? 4. How can ye come before God with confidence and boldness, who do not endeavour thus to walk with him? Can ye say with Holy boldness; Our Father which art in Heaven, Whose Conversation is not Heavenly? Can ye pray for Holiness, and say these words, Thy will be done on Earth, as it is done in Heaven, who never studied to be heavenly in any duty, that ye put hand to? But 5. And above all, I would ask you, can ye hope to die comfortably, nay can ye hope to die in safety, as to your souls, who know not heaven, nor what is there, nor what is the way to it? It gives a man