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ble of the Sower, Luk.S. 8. twoof the forts of ground
were nor fit to receive feed becaufe they were not
humbled, and therefore the Word had not that effect j
in them as it had in thof c that were humbled, plowed,
and had the clods bioken. It is with anhumbie foule,
as it is with an hungry and thirfty man • tell him of
gold and filver, he cares nor for it, only give him meat
and drinke, for that is the thing he moftdefires, and
ftandsmoft in need of: or like a condemned man, tell
him of lands and poiTefTions, he regards them nothing
at all: for nothing will fatisfie him but a pardon: fo
it is with aChrilfianthatis humbled and caftdownc
under the fenfe of the wrath of God for finne:cell
him of any thing in the world in the moft learned and
exccllentefl: manner that poffibly you can,yet nothing
will latisfie him but the love and favour of Godin
Chrift, he can rcllifh nothing but heavenly things :
nothing will quench his third: but the imputed righ
teoufnefle of Chrift. Thus ycu fee thac Humility is an
excellent meanes unto heavenly mindedneffe.
The third meanes, if you would get heavenly min-
dedneffe, is this, thou mud labour to get thy ]udgt-
merit rightly informed, efpecially concerning earthly
things : The reafon wherefore men are fo befotted
with the world, is, becaufe they doc not conceive of
the things in the world fo as indeed they are, they
thinke better of them then they deferve, andlooke
for that from them which they cannot afford them:
therefore heare what the Preacher faith ofthem : Salomm
fjaith, that they are vanity and vexation of fpirit
yea,he calls all vanity : And in another place he cotn-
I pares
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Simile
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A judgement
rightly informed
concerning
earthly
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