2. _To admonish us_, not to suffer our affections to be taken up with the things of this world, thereby to lessen that desire, which we should have to the word of God. 3. _To exhort us_, to use the utmost of our endeavours to stir up and increase these pious affections in our selves. Doctrine 6. _This affection and desire that wee ought to have to Gods word, should have respect to the sincerity thereof._ This is gathered from that, _desire the sincere milke of the word_: that is, the nature it selfe of the word and of the things proposed therein, as they are pure, and ♦afford nourishment fit for our Soules. ♦ “affoord” replaced with “afford” _Reason_ 1. Because otherwise we doe not desire the word, as it is the word of life, or the bread of life, or the milke of life, as it is in the text, but as we doe apprehend it under some carnall shew. 2. Because this desire alone proceeds from spirituall life, which seekes after that in the word that tends unto life, which is intimated also in the text by the similitude of infants, that naturally desire their mothers milke. _Vse_ 1. This may serve _to reprove those_ ministers that falsifie the word of God by their owne mixtures and devices, and obtrude upon him an adulterate word, in stead of the simple and sincere word. 2. _To admonish_ the hearers not to suffer their affections to be carried either towards the person of the speaker, or towards the manner his speaking, much lesse towards those strange forgings which many use in their speaking, but sincerely to seeke for the sincerity of the word. 3. _To exhort us_, highly to prize this sincerity of the word, and to endeavour all that we can to preserve it as well in our selves as in the Church. Doctrine 7. _Then and not before, doe we use the sincere word of God aright, when we grow thereby._ This is gathered from these words: _that ye may grow thereby_. This is signified in all those places of Scripture, where the end of the word is made to be the edification of the faithfull: for _to edifie_ is to promote the structure of the edifice, to a greater perfection, after that the foundation is already laid. This is expressed also _Ephesians 4.16._ _Reason_ 1. Because we are imperfect, like as infants that are newly borne: now we are perfected, when the word of God dwells richly in us, _Colossians 3.16._ 2. Because the word it selfe in its owne nature alwayes tends and leads to perfection: for it is the perfect will of God, _Romans 12.2._