A godly Christian is a constant Christian [ 166]
AFfections to God must be constant. The aire (you know) is light, and yet we call it not a lightsome body, because it is lighted by the presence of another, and when that body is removed,* 1.1 it is dark; for the aire is dark in the night, when the Sun is absent; as it is light, when the Sun is present: Those onely we call light∣some bodies, whose light is originated and rooted in themselves. So, they are not godly persons, that may have some injections of godly thoughts, and godly affections cast into them, and be in them for a spurt, and a brunt, and for a little flash, (like a flash of lightning in the aire) and so gon▪ but it must be rooted and grounded in a man, so as that it will continue, continue so, as that the exercise of graces, and du∣ties towards God,* 1.2 should be frequent and quotidian, daily to have converse and com∣munion with God,* 1.3 to walk with him, and talk with him, to approve our selves to him, to set our selves in his presence, to make a constant trade with him, to be his daies-man, to work by the day with him, and withall to hold out to the end.