[ LXV] Every motion towards God, is not a true motion towards God.
THere be many things that move, and yet their motion is not an argument of life: A Windmill, when the wind serveth, moveth, and moveth very nimbly too; yet this cannot be said to be a living creature; no, it moveth only by an external cause, by an artificiall contrivance; it is so framed, that when the wind sitteth in such or such a corner,* 1.1 it will move, and so having but an externall motor, and cause to move, and no inward principle, no soul within it to move it, it is an argument, that it is no living creature. So it is also, if a man see another man move, and move ve∣ry fast in those things, which of themselves are the waies of God; you shall see him move as fast to hear a Sermon, as his neighbour doth, is as forward and hasty to thrust himself, and bid himself a guest to the Lord's Table (when God hath not bid him) as any.* 1.2 Now the question is, What principle sets him a work; if it be an inward principle of life, out of a sincere affection, and love to God and his Ordi∣nances, that carrieth him to this, it argueth, that man hath some life of grace: but if it be some wind that bloweth on him, the wind of state, the wind of law, the wind of danger, of penalty; the wind of fashion or custom, to do as his neighbours do: If these, or the like, be the things that draw him thither, this is no argument of life at all; it is a cheap thing, it is a counterfeit and dead piece of service.