AND DIRECTIONS FOR HEARING AND READING THE WORD OF GOD WITH CERTAIN AND SAVING BENEFIT. By DANIEL BURGESS, LATE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL. LONDON: Printed by Defire of a Brivate Gentleman; and may MOTHE MDCCLXXXVITE. [Price Six-pence.] Mason 19 RU L E S POR HEARING the WORD of GOD, With certain and faving Benefit. BEFORE you Hear. DIR IRECTION I. Pray for a blessing, hearty prayer is ftill a prevailer; and their moft when it is for gifts that be beft. But by not asking a blessing, you deferve à curse: because you do virtually tell God, either that you need not his fpirit, or that you defire not the faving efficacy of his word. Neglect of prayer will ruin the best hearer; holy use of it will fave the worst hearer. Direct. II. Ufe forecast against distractions in hearing. Wrath, and luft, and finful paffions, A 2 will |