promises of God in Christ when thou art in any straight or temptation as wel for thy present provision and preservation in this life as for thy salvation in the life to come abstaining from the use of any unlawfull or unwarrantable practices Gen. 22.8 And Abraham said My son God will provide himselfe a Lambe for a burnt offering so they went both of them together Exod. 14.13 And Moses said unto the people Feare ye not stand still and see the salvation of the Lord what he will shew to you to day for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day yee shall see them againe no more for ever Mar. XI If thou canst find in thy heart that thou dost love God sincerely although thou couldst never love him but that hee loved thee first Joh. 21.17 And hee said unto him the third time Simon son of Jonas lovest thou mee Peter was grieved because hee said unto him the third time Lovest thou me And hee said unto him Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee 1 Joh. 4.19 Wee love him because hee first loved us Rom. 5.5 And hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy Ghost which is given unto us Mar. XII If thou canst heartily love good Christians and others that have helped thee on to heaven and on the contrarie doest hate and avoid wicked and dissolute men but most of all such as withdraw others from the faith or by scandalous lives have caused the faith to bee blasphemed and evill spoken of 1 Joh 3.14 Wee know wee have passed from death to life because wee love the brethren Mat. 10.41 He that receiveth a Prophet in the name of a Prophet shall receive a Prophets reward and hee that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous mans reward Rom. 16.4 Who for my life laid down their own necks unto whom not only I give thanks but also all the Churches of the Gentiles Gal. 4.14 And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not nor rejected but received me as an Angel of God even as Christ Jesus Ps 15.4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned but hee honoureth them that fear the Lord. 1 Tim. 3.3 Without naturall affection truce breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good Mar. XIII The fight between the flesh and the spirit Rom. 7.23 But I see another law in my members warring against the law of my minde and bringing mee into captivity to the law of sinne which is in my members Gal. 5.17 For the Flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot doe the things you would Mar. XIV If wee long for the appearing of Christ Revel 22.20 He which testifies these things saith Surely I come quickly Amen even so come Lord Jesus 2 Tim. 4.8 Henceforth there is laid up for mee a crowne of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give mee at that day and not to mee onely but unto them also that love his appearing Mar. XV. If thou makest conscience of secret sinnes which none eye sees as a hard heart a secure proud heart if thou lookest not so much to the matter of good duties as to the manner if they bee done in truth and sincerity also if thou dost apply both the promises and the threatnings to thee in the Word of God and lovest and admirest grace more in others then in thy selfe and hatest sin in all but most in thy selfe Thou mayest take comfort from these if thou canst doe them in a holy manner namely 1. With uprightnesse of heart 2. With continuance 3. With daily growth in the practice of them And to this end two things must be practised 1. Use often to examine and try and search thy heart and all thy actions 2. Take an often account of thy life concerning thy progresse in the course of godlinesse for want of this examination many live and die hypocrites and know it not but suppose their case is good 1 Chro. 29.17 I know also my God that thou tryest the heart and hast pleasure in uprightnesse as for me in the uprightnesse of mine heart I have offered all these things 1 Joh. 3.18 My little children let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth Rev. 2.19 I know thy workes and charity and service and faith and thy patience and thy works and the last bee more then the first 2 Tim. 3.7 Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Psal 119.59 I thought on my wayes and turned my feet unto thy testimonies 1 Tim. 4.15 Meditate upon these things give thy selfe wholly to them that thy profiting may appeare to all Gal. 1.14 And profited in the Jewes religion above many my equals in mine owne nation being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my Fathers Heb. 5.12 For when for the time yee ought to be teachers yee have need that one teach you againe which bee the first principles of the oracles of God and are become such as have need of milke and not of strong meat Mar. XVI If thou dost desire to keepe no corruption or if thy endeavours bee constant in the use of all meanes against every corruption Mar. XVII If thou desirest Christ for his holinesse-sake which if thou dost then thou wilt take all that comes with holinesse whether it bee shame or disgrace or persecution c. FINIS
Doth holinesse fit a man to love God above all and wouldest thou know whether thou hast an holy heart Try it from the former truth Where ever holinesse is it fits the heart to love God above all Canst thou doe this which holinesse enables a man to doe then if there be holinesse in heaven it is also in thine heart I doe not meane that any man should have the exactnesse that Adam had in creation but what hee had in perfection wee must have in desire Thou must have an heart enlarged to love God above all though thou hast many weaknesses with it Many for want of this are cast out as not being partakers of this saving worke Namely Those that never had any readinesse to this saving work of God further then shame or disgrace provokes them for most that live upon the face of the earth must have some constraining power to force them to the performance of Gods service they say as those in Malachi What a wearinesse is it Mal. 1.13 The word of God and his ordinances are a burden the sabbaths are tedious men come to Gods worship as a Beare to a stake or a captive to prison how willing are they to bee freed from these duties whereas holinesse ever brings willingnesse with it Ob. But doe not the Saints finde a great deale of awkwardnesse Ans I confesse it is true but there is a great deale of difference between these and the other The Saints willingly oppose their corruptions that clog them but a carnall heart joynes sides with the flesh hee desires means and occasions to withdraw him from the love of God hee is glad to finde a pretence to travell on the Lords day or to neglect prayer in his private family But the Saints are weary of their untowardnesse and awkwardnesse to holy duties Matth. 26.41 the Disciples were overcharged with wearinesse and fell asleepe Christ addes the reason The spirit is willing but the flesh is weake Rom. 7. The law is holy and the commandement holy but sinne tooke occasion by the commandement c. It is not I but sinne that dwelleth in me as if hee should say It is good to please God and I will labour after it but I confesse I have a wilfull wretched heart within mee which opposeth this yet there is a sparke of holinesse in this heart and with that I love thee though my flesh oppose thee §. 5. Quest WHat is righteousnesse Righteousnesse what it is Answ The second part of the spirituall image put into Adam whereby hee could love himselfe as hee ought and his neighbour as himselfe In the description there are three things 1. It is the second part of Gods image in the will Holinesse fitted Adam to goe to God yet of it selfe it could not fit him to love his brother therefore hee must have another frame that is of righteousnesse Againe it is beyond the power of the soule to performe spirituall love to his brother therefore it must have this part of Gods image in it 1 Joh. 4.7 Love is of God to love another holily is beyond the power and faculty of nature Indeed a man may love another carnally as adulterers and naturally as creatures but to love another spiritually hee must have power from God There is a double cunning of the hand as David useth the word a cunning to play on an instrument Psa 137. and a cunning to write now the cunning of the one will not make a man skilfull in the other so there is a double cunning put into the heart of Adam the first Of holinesse whereby hee could love God above all the second Of righteousnesse whereby he could love himselfe as hee ought and his neighbour as himselfe 2. The second part of the description was By this he was fitted to love himselfe as he ought The ground of all lawfull love comes from self-love if it be pure There is a selfe-love required nay if it be right it is the standard of all love to another He that loveth himselfe as he should will be disposed to love another Love lookes first at that which is most good to me as to my honour which is a greater good to me before the honour of another man It is true what was said of David 2 Sam. 21. Thou art better then ten thousand of us that was in regard of his place and office but take a man as a particular person and my good is better to me then another mans Quest How should a man love himselfe Ans This love is bounded by three things Selfe-love how to be bounded by a right Order Measure Manner 1. A man must love himselfe in a right order and that you must understand in three rules Rule 1. He must love himselfe in the second place God in the first Pro. 3.9 Honour the Lord with the first fruits of thy increase Mat. 6.33 First seeke the kingdome of heaven all else must be served after God In the old law it was required that God should have the first fruits of a mans vintage We must bestow the chiefest of our love and delight on God we must love Gods honour in the first place our owne in the second Mat. 22.38 This is the first and greatest commandement To love God with all our heart The second is like unto this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe 2. He must love himselfe with a subordinate degree of love but in the love of God he must put forth the utmost of his strength In the old law hee that brought a sacrifice was to bring a male Mal. 1. ult Cursed be the man that hath a male in his flocke and offereth a female to the Lord The male is the stronger the female the weaker All our prayers and services unto God must bee male but female love and desire will serve our selves God required in the old law that the sacrifices should not be shorn our sacrifices are our duties to God they are the males we must offer we may not sheare our joy and delight but let them go with their fleeces on that is in their full strength to God but when we come to our selves we may sheare our love 3. A man is to love himselfe in God and for God Adam was to love Gods image in himselfe as a step to conveigh him more speedily to the love of God What wouldest thou love in thy selfe thine honour Get thee to a wise and glorious God and love his glory more Dost thou love thy life Oh love the life of God who is a living God Rom. 9.3 I could wish to bee Anathema for my brethren c. Seeing that the Jewes would fall to the dishonour of God hee did so prize the honour of God that he could wish himselfe to be accursed that they might stand This was the cause hee loved the glory of God above all Adam had power to love himselfe in a right measure This I referre to all those
things which concerne Adam in comparison with his fellow brethren In this right measure two rules are to be attended 1. Adam was to love all things belonging to himself with a love proportionable to them He was to proportion his love sutable to the nature of the things As one exceeded another in goodnesse so hee was to exceed in love towards them Those things that were of the choicest nature on them he was to bestow the choicest affections as for example Adam was to love his life honour and good name according to their nature A man must love his life above his wealth and the good of his soule above his life As in a paire of scales the heavier the waight is in the one the more weight we put into the other if wee would have them even so answerable to the love that was in any thing Adam was to weigh out an agreeable proportion of love The happinesse of the soule is everlasting therefore he was to bestow unchangeable love upon it but wealth and riches are mutable therefore mutable affections wil serve them we must so love them as to be content to leave them Thy wife is dearer then thy kinsman weigh out the affections of matrimony to thy wife of friendship to thy kinsman The credit of the world is good but it is but a small good weigh out but a little measure of love to it The woman sicke of a bloudy issue spent all she had to save her life and shall not a man spend his life to save his soule Rule 2. We ought to love our owne personall good more then the good of another All true love begins at home I must love mine own honour more then the honour of another For the right understanding of this Rule take notice of two cautions Caut. 1. I must alwayes compare my good with the good of another in the same kind I must compare my life and his life my soule and his soule My owne soule is dearer to me then anothers But if you take them not in the like quality the rule bindes not I must love the soule of my brother more then mine owne life If a man might undoubtedly set forward the salvation of his brother by laying downe his life he must be content to dye so likewise I must love the life of my brother better then mine owne riches But compare them in the same kind and the rule holds Caut. 2. There must be no overpowring circumstance to oversway mee if the publicke good may bee promoted or God may be honoured more by him then by me in regard of his parts and place 1 Joh. 3.16 We ought to lay downe our lives for our brethren When God may receive more honour from another man then from me I must lay downe my life to save his It was requisite a private Christian should die rather then Paul the Apostle because hee was chiefe if therefore a private man should rescue Paul he must lay downe his life for him 1 Sam. 18.3 The life of king David is better then the life of a thousand subjects Gods honour may be more promoted by it The arme will loose it selfe to save the head Rule 3. We must love our selves in a right manner The manner of loving our selves namely in that manner that is comely and beseeming This makes knowne it selfe in these thre particulars It must be Really Fervently Purely 1. Really not in complement but with love unfained and hearty 1. Joh. 3.18 Let us not love in tongue or in word but in deed and in truth so it was with Adam hee was able to do good to himselfe whereas wee that are corrupt are most enemies to our selves when wee seeme most to love our selves Pro. 8. ult He that despiseth wisedome * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 layeth violent hands upon himselfe so the word in the originall is Out of selfe-love and pride you must not have your base courses condemned but you hate your soules in despising the means God is Jehovah a Being God therefore requires that mans love should be reall 2. Adam loved himselfe fervently 1 Pet. 1.22 as Saint Peter calls it There was namely a pressenesse in Adams spirit whereby the whole man was carried to improve any meanes for the good of himselfe Adam was free from weaknesse within from impediment without As in Heb. 6.10 it is called The labour of love so was Adam painfull to use all meanes for his good Ephes 5.29 No man ever hated his owne flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it that is hee imployes all meanes to helpe himselfe whereas wee that are corrupt cannot inlarge our hearts in duties of love We are so distracted that we cannot go on freely in our occasions both in things that concerne God and in things that concerne our selves Rom. 7. The good we would do we doe not 3. Adam loved himselfe purely not with carnall nor sensuall love He loved onely that which was good in himselfe he loved his excellency that so he might get more of it and be fitted by it in the performance of his service There are sixe good things belonging to a man Honour Life Chastity Goods Good name Prosperity now Adam loved these that hee might get more of them and be fitted the better for Gods service These two things Adam got by obedience 1. more ability 2. more dexterity in the performance of Gods command Adam loved his honour that he might receive more honour from others and be more enabled to performe his duty to them whereas we love good things for naughty ends The covetous churle loveth his scraping humour and growes more covetous we love sin which we ought to abhorre and we doe good oftentimes for bad ends but Adam loved that which was good in himselfe for that good end to get more of it Gods people are followers after righteousnesse Isa 51.11 More of that Lord more chastity and meeknesse As the beast that hunts his prey pursues it still with more and more eagernesse so doth the gracious man follow after righteousnesse Adam was patient c. but yet he desired more wee love good things wel but many times use them ill when wee have them A man perhaps craves honour with moderation but he lifts up his heart when hee hath gotten it Part 3. The third thing in the description is He loved his brother as himselfe for quality not for quantity The love of himselfe was a patern to imitate not to equall or exceed Quest How may we know how Adam was to love his brother as himselfe Ans The rules are two How to love our brother as our selves 1. He was to weigh out love respecting as well his brothers good as his owne In 2 Kin. 1.13 the poore man was afraid that Elias would have slaine him therefore he prayeth him that his life might he precious in his eyes as Adam was able to set an high price on the honour and life of his brother
Will imbraced that and the Affections yeelded serviceably to the command of Reason and Holinesse Herein appeared the difference between these affections in Adam and in other creatures The creature is carried by the rule of appetite the horse rusheth into the battell the wild asse snuffeth up the winde The Psalmist saith Psal 32. Bee not like the horse and mule which have no understanding Psal 32. Here was the excellency of Adam that wisdome that God had imprinted in his understanding that holinesse that hee had implanted in his will commanded his affections and they did sweetly yeeld thereto Adams soule was like a well-tuned instrument all the strings the affections being rightly tuned make a sweet harmony In a well governed common-wealth the Councel directs the King enacts lawes and the subjects obey so there was wisdome in Adams understanding and that counselled there was holinesse in the will and that commanded and all the affections were like loyall subjects imbracing what reason and holy will commanded In this common-wealth there were no traitors no in Adams heart there were no tumultuous disorders as now we finde but what the reason said and the will chused that the affections embraced Quest Wherein doth this subjection discover it selfe How shall wee see Adams affections submitting to reason Ans In foure particulars Wherein the affections submitted to reason 1. The affections of Adam were willing to entertaine every command which wisedome and holinesse gave The affections are but so many servants that attend on the understanding 1 Pet. 5.9 Bee sober and watch There is a sobriety required in the soul namely a man should not lavish out his affections on other things and so unfit himself to be under the subjection of the Truth This sobriety was abundant in Adam he had a sweet easinesse and softnesse of affection like waxe to take the print of Gods Seale whereas it is with our affections as with drunken servants who when their Masters call them are not themselves for there is a drunkennesse in mans heart when it is inordinately carried with too eager a pursuit after vaine things though reason commands yet it obeyeth not Adams affections were in a sweete frame for if God revealed any command love embraced it Ephes 6.15 Having your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace The feet are the affections the shooing of the feet is the preparing of the affections to entertaine all the conditions of the Gospel of peace A man that is shod is fit to goe a journey so when the affections are thus shod they are fit to walke in any way that God requires Since Adam lost this sobriety of affections what awkardnesse doe wee finde to duty when a man should love an enemy how hardly is hee brought to it when a man ought to reforme a sinne what a difficulty is there in it 2. They were speedy in the performance of what was injoyned them A wise understanding could no sooner reveale a duty to be done but they ecchoed answerably This all of us would have Psalm 40. mark how speedy Christ was in performing of duty Behold I come thy law is within mine heart And Psal 27.8 The Lord saith seek yee my face and his affections answered Thy face Lord will I seeke Also in Psal 119.4 5. Gods voice saith I charge you diligently keepe my Commandements and they eccho again Oh that our wayes were made so direct that we might keep thy Statutes 1 Pet. 1.13 Gird up the loyns of your mind And in Luk. 12.35 it is said Let your loynes bee girded about and your lights burning The loynes of our mindes are our affections They are compared to loose garments such as they wore in the East Countries which they girded up when they went on a journey Our affections hang like loose garments about us wee must gird them up that we may with more speed goe in the pathes of Gods Statutes Thus David prayeth Set mine heart at liberty that I may runne the wayes of thy commandements But we find the contrary for though many times the minde so yeelds that the course is holy yet what a base wearinesse hangs on the heart what slow hearts have we how doe we draw our loyns after us We feele this and the ground of it is the want of Gods image 3. They continued in the speed they made Adams affections were to hold themselves in an holy bent without warping Wee finde the contrary In Gal. 6. the Apostle saith Bee not weary in well doing Sometimes a man is hot at first and then his affections coole this is the bane of Religion Hee was holy so they may say of a man-devill 2 Cor. 11.14 an Angell of light But Adam was able to hold himselfe in a right pitch This David prayed for Psal 51.12 when he had wounded his affections Oh stablish mee with thy free spirit as if he should say Time was when I did love thy Word mine heart did feare evill and I did hate uncleannesse but now how unstedfast are my affections therefore stablish mee with thy free spirit If you finde your hearts giving way to any base lusts you shall finde them easily giving back from holy duties Rev. 2.31 Thou hast forsaken thy first love O woe to that declining condition that those who heretofore expressed forwardnesse in a good course and could cry for mercy as for life are now key-cold But Adams affections were able to keep themselves in full strength and so did the Saints of God Num. 14.24 Caleb followed God fully Psalm 63.9 My soule followes hard after thee Hee pursued God with eagernesse as the creature the prey David stands not still nor delayes but pursueth and as the phrase is Esa 51.1 follows after righteousnesse Thou that hast a stubborne heart by nature if thou beest once righteous thou wilt then follow after meeknesse 4. His affections were in an orderly tractablenesse to the rule of reason and holinesse Reason and holinesse gave not only direction to the affections but moderation in all things and upon all occasions The affections would not bee carried out of order nor measure upon any thing nor stay longer then they should upon any object An Embassador goes no farther then his Commission stayes no longer then his Commission gives leave so reason and holinesse were the commanders of Adams affections they received a command therefrom and went no further then reason and holinesse allowed them It is lawfull for a man to love the world but no more then reason and holinesse allowes if God should say I will take away these things from thee love and joy should willingly part with them The souldier if he be loyall when the Commander biddeth battell hee goes when hee soundeth a retrait he returnes home againe so the reason and will sanctified were the commanders of Adams course When reason and holinesse saith it a man may delight in the things of this life but when they say grieve no
of his heart to the well-pleasing of God are all conveighed and communicated to the soule by the Sacrament and to bee received therein 2. You must understand how this is communicated to the soule in the Sacrament Quest How is pardon and power conveighed unto mee by the Sacrament Ans I answer This comes from a right discerning of the body and bloud of Christ when I can see beyond the outward elements and see the spirit of Christ undoubtedly communicating the spirituall good as I see the outward elements communicating the temporall good when I can see something beyond bread and something beyond wine and something beyond breaking something beyond pouring out something beyond taking and see as certainly the Spirit of God communicating the spirituall comfort unto my soule as the outward elements would do to my body in this case the Spirit of God doth as certainly communicate assurance of Gods favour power against corruption and to walke with God as the bread doth food to my stomack and the wine sweetnesse to my taste and refreshment to my nature I say the Spirit of the Lord doth as undoubtedly give Christ and his merits the fruit and benefit of them in the forgivenesse of sin and strength against corruption as drynesse goes with the bread and moysture with the wine III. The Character of a sound Christian in seventeen markes Mark I. IF thou canst mourn daily for thy owne corruptions and failings committed yet so as to bee thankfull for the grace received Rom. 7.24 Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death Ver. 25. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord c. So then with the minde I my selfe serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sinne Mar. II. If thou art grieved for the sinnes of the times and places where thou livest Ezek 9.4 And the Lord said unto him goe through the midst of the Citie through the midst of Jerusalem and set a marke upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that bee done in the midst thereof Psalm 119.136 Rivers of water runne downe mine eyes because men keep not thy Law 2 Pet. 2.8 For that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soule from day to day with their unlawfull deeds Mar. III. If when thou mournest for the sinnes of the times thou take heed that thou art not infected with them Phil. 2.15 That yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation among whom yee shine as lights in the world Act. 20.40 And with many other words did hee testifie and exhort saying Save your selves from this untoward generation Jam. 1.27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherlesse and widow in their affliction and to keep himselfe unspotted from the world 1 Pet. 4.4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to same excesse of riot speaking evill of you Mar. IV. If thou endeavourest to get victory over thy corruptions art daily more circumspect over thy waies and more fearfull to fall in time to come 1 Cor. 9 27. But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a cast-away Psal 39.1 I said I will take heed to my waies that I sin not with my tongue I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked are before me Job 40.5 Once have I spoken but I will not answer thee yea twice but I will proceede no further Phil. 2.12 Wherefore my beloved as ye have alwaies obeyed not as in my presence only but now much more in mine absence worke out your owne salvation with fear and trembling Pro. 28.14 Happy is the man that feareth alway Mar. V. If thou canst chide thy owne heart for the coldnesse and dulness of it to good duties and use all holy means for quickning it up afterward Ps 43.5 Why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance my God Ps 57.8 Awake my glory awake psaltery and harp I my self will awake early Isa 64.7 And there is none that calleth on thy name that stirreth up themselves to take hold of thee Judg. 5.12 Awake awake Deborah awake awake utter a song arise Barak and lead thy captivity captive thou son of Abinoam Mar. VI. If thou canst be patient under afflictions and better for afflictions Heb. 12.5 And yee have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children My son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord nor faint when thou art rebuked of him Heb. 12.11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous neverthelesse afterward it yeeldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousnesse unto them that are exercised thereby Ps 119.67 Before I was afflicted I went astray but now I have kept thy words Jer. 5.3 O Lord are not thine eyes upon the truth thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder then a rock they have refused to returne Mar. VII If thy conversation bee in heaven that is if thy thoughts and the course of thy life be heaven-wards Phil. 3.20 For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we looke for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Col. 3.2 Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth Heb. 11.15 And truly if they had been mindefull of that countrey from whence they came out they might have had opportunity to have returned Mar. VIII If thou delight to speak with God in thy praiers and that God should speak to thee in his Word Rom. 8. 26. Likewise also the Spirit helpeth our infirmities for wee know not what wee should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it selfe maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered Joh. 8.47 He that is of God heareth Gods words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God Mar. IX If thou art as well content to submit thy heart and life to Gods Word in all things even when it crosses thee in thy profits and pleasures as thou art content to come and hear it Isa 2.3 And many people shall goe and say Come ye and let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his waies and we will walk in his paths Ezek. 33.32 And lo thou art to them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument for they heare thy words but they doe them not Mar. X. If thou canst relie constantly by faith on the