Attention in Hearing Gods Word, com∣manded and commended. [ 1342]
MAny there are in our days,* 1.1 that delight to have Rings and Jewels hanged at their ears, and they account it a great ornament unto them; whose Vanity the Poet long since in a scoffing manner, answered; It is (saith he) be∣cause they have no fingers on their hands, as if the fingers not the ears were made for Rings: However, this may be said,* 1.2 that if we had the richest Iewels the East or West could afford us, if we have not an ear bored through to the Heart, a hearing ear to hear the Word of God, they are no better then Iewels in a Swines snowt:* 1.3 Oh the excellency of the Iewell of attention! when audire ter∣minates in obedire, when we hear the Word of God and do it, when we under∣stand, believe and practise what we hear.