_-_ Exceedrvrg Sinfirinefs' of Sin. Ia;Y grounds as this is, Certainly this notes a true railed heart by God, and fuch anone is like to (land out againfi temptations , in another man- ner than othersdo. And trulywhen the heart is poífefèd with this thought, it cannotperhaps parley, and reafon with the temptation as others can;. yea, this one principle of finningagain(l God, will fo fill the heart of a man or woman, 'that though it dothnot fland reafoning and an- fwering every thing , yet it will even buril out, either in tears, and fal a lamenting that it Mould be pdftered with temptation or built out into .Refolution againfl it. I remember an excellent Story reported in the Book of Martyrs, you may find it in King Edwards life ; that yong Prince, that died at force fifteen yearsof age, inhis time, there were two Bi(hops (otherwife good, and proved Martyrs, andyet you may fee what the bell of themwere in thole times) they carne to perfwade the King to yeild to a Tol- lerationof theMars, and it was but for his Sifter ai.ither, not for the whole Kingdom, butmeer- (yfor his own Sifter, toyeild to aTollerationof it inherChappel, he flood out againfl it though yong, thought it a difhonor toGod ; well, they -plead andReafon with him , tellinghim it was bell inState Policy, and other grounds theyufe to perfwade a Tolleratión of Popery, ( thus youfeewhat kindof men there in there waies N are, and if you donot know, yet you are like to knowmore in this kind about therewayes ) but this I bring it for, when the poor King, ,a thoughyong, having his heart poífefled with this
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