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· / thegrojfeflse!fm•rder. 77· wottld command all thy foul ; foul thou·fualt not be fo feldom at the throne ofgrace as thou art &c. Thus much of the fecond objection dra~n from the will. ' , . Ob;'eEfion the thira. , ob· r:1. h ,f. h 3. 'JCC~.. JJ;ut thou dejireft to do it, andt ereJore t oM An[we~ed . d~ft n9tftic~ at 11 will not. , I anfwer thee, wbo can tell befr what is in ' thee, God or thine own heart?verily the Lord that did make it is likelieft to know befl:. Now the Lord faies perempt~rily , thou defirefi net grace ; yea~ and thy heart faies fo ~~o, and the Lord hears lt ,though thou heareil: tt not ; they faid urito God depart from us, .,e deftre net the /znowledgeof th] Wayes,Job2I.r. I4.Neverthe- . lefs, becauie diou fiande£1: fo ftoutly upon it, _that thou dofr defire gtace, I~le tell thee the reafon of thy mifiake. .Firfr, thou haft putative or thinking deftre~, - thou thinkefl: thou defireft, and therefore thou art mifraken; like Sene~a~s young fchollar,that ·"-"'"r~ faid, he defired to be good. I do not fay, faith he,he lie$, but putat fe .cupere,He thinks that he z deiires; fo thou faieO: thou defirefr, I will not fay thou lyefr . but thou thinkefi thou dofi fo; now alas thy. thoughts are the vaineft things in the World. Ho-wlongfoall vain thoughtJlodt' wi(hin thee ? (er. 4.' 14. 1 thy thowghts are very va1n~ there is no trufiing in them. Naaman 2~King. ,. thopght, I thought, faitli he, but how wide~·· , his_thought' was the fiory declares. , RamanEf\er 6.6. , 'thought,he thought in his heart, faies theText ; · ' but . ..

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