[ 1872] The great benefit of Hearing and practi∣sing Gods Word.
AS we see in the siege of some strong hold, when Men have been long coop'd up, and have not had meat to eat, they have come out like so many dead carcases, as it were so many Sceletons, so weak, so poor, with such gastly looks, as it were enough to scare any Man with the sight of them; But now eating mends all this,* 1.1 upon eating follows strength to walk, and strength to work, upon eating follows fatnesse, and goodnesse of Complexion. And thus it is upon eating of the Word, when Men with r••adinesse and forwardnesse receive the Word of God,* 1.2 and practise what they hear,* 1.3 then it is that they have strength in their Souls to walk in the wayes of God,* 1.4 then it is that they grow up,* 1.5 as Calves of the stall; full of good; fat and flourishing; and then it is that they have fair and good complexions,* 1.6 their Wisedome and other Gra∣ces cause their faces to shine in the fair and lovely carriage of their lives and con∣versations.