5 In hearing of the word with others, and reading of it by our selves, we think we have to deal but with men, because those are but outward things, many men will carry themselves cheerfully: but there is nothing more tedious unto us, (without Gods special assistance)1 than by meditation to call our selves to account before Gods judgement seat for that which we have heard, and to deal with our hearts in good earnest for the doing or not doing of the things we have learned: and without hypocrisy to lay our hearts naked before God, accusing our selves when we come short of any thing, praying also for grace therein, confessing our sins that we have been rebuked of, and craving forgiveness: acknowledging his mercy where we have received any thing, and begging for the continuance of it: and so to depart away either more humbled in our selves, to avoid sin more carefully; or comforted in the Lord, to go on forward in welldoing more cheerfully.
5 In hearing of the word with others, and reading of it by our selues, we think we haue to deale but with men, because those are but outward things, many men will carrie themselues cheerefully: but there is nothing more tedious vnto vs, (without Gods speciall assistance)1 than by meditation to call our selues to account before Gods iudgemēt seate for that which we haue heard, and to deale with our hearts in good earnest for the doing or not doing of the things we haue learned: and without hypocrisie to lay our hearts naked before God, accusing our selues when we come short of any thing, praying also for grace therein, confessing our sinnes that we haue been rebuked of, and crauing forgiuenes: acknowledging his mercie where we haue receiued any thing, and begging for the continuance of it: and so to depart away either more humbled in our selues, to auoide sinne more carefully; or comforted in the Lord, to goe on forward in weldoing more cheerefully.
- 1Godly meditation painful.Godly meditation painfull.
