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REverence cannot but draw on Attention; We need not be bidden to hang on the lips of him whom we honour. It is the charge of the Spirit, Let him that hath an ear hear; Every one hath not an eare, and of those that have an ear, every one hea∣reth not; The soul hath an ear as well as the body; if both these ears doe not meet together in one act, there is no hearing: Com∣mon
experience tels us that when the mind is otherwise taken up, we doe no more hear what a man says, then if we had been deaf, or he silent. Hence is that first request of Abig••il to David; Let thine * 1.1 handmaid speak to thine ears, and hear the words of thine handmaid; and Job so importunately ur∣geth his friends: Hear diligently * 1.2 my speech and my declaration with your ears. The outward ear may be open, and the inward shut; if way be not made through both, we are deaf to spirituall things. Mine ear hast thou boa∣red, * 1.3 or digged, saith the Psalmist; the vulgar reads it, my ears hast thou perfected: Surely our ears are grown up with flesh; there is no passage for a perfit hearing of the voyce of God, till he have made it by a spirituall perfora∣tion.
And now that the ear is made capable of good counsell, it doth as gladly receive it; taking in e∣very
1 Sam. 25. 24.
Job 13. 17.
Psal. 40. 6.