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 things, than that one needful thing; and we desire all things, and we neglect one thing which is ſo needful. This thing hath Mary chosen, and therefore  chosen the better part: Martha's part  good, because it provideth for this present life; but Mary's part is better, because  leadeth unto eternal life. It is good to occupied about our calling, to get our
 * but it is better to be occupied in the word, which is able to ſave  ſouls.

Chriſt loves Martha for hospitality, as loved Esau for his venison; and Christ Mary for her care and diligence in his word, as Rebecca loved Jacob  the hearkening to her voice, Gen. xxv. As a nurse, that having her breasts full of milk, doth love the child that ſucks it from, even ſo the Lord Jesus Christ, when hath his breast full of heavenly milk, is  when he hath children to ſuck the ſame. Let us therefore, as the apostle willeth us, "Lay aside all maliciousness, guile and ; all envy and ill-ſpeaking;, as new-born babes, desire the ſincere of the word, that we may grow thereby,  perfect men in Christ Jesus," 1 Pet. ii. 1. us breathe after the fountain of living, which ſpringeth up into everlasting , John iv. 14.