the gr'./{eftself-mNrder~ 107 zo. this· is a mofr fawcy excufe, thou tellefi , Chrifl: in plain terms, I cannot come, q. d. ye may even fave your labour to invite, ·for dais isfhort and long, as we fay, I cannot come. This I put in only by the by. r I have 1hewed you fome ofthe deceits ofthe heart in pleading thefe cannots. · Fidl: , how it lies unto God. Secondly, how it daliies with God. ' , Thirdly ·, how pereby it puts off the word. And then Ithewed you the il:rongr~afon we ,have to be humbled under thefe wil-nots. Firfl: becaufe here ·chiefly lies the pride of tht heart, not in me11s cannots,but in their wil-nots, }'er. I 3• 1 7. - · Secondly here lieschiefly tht hardningof the heart, Exod. 9· 34,3 5· Thirdly, here lies chiefly the jfNbbornneffe (Jf . the h~art,Deut. 2 r. I 8. . . Fourthly,.here lies chiefly the great defpijing ~~the Commandements ofGod, Levit. 26.1 S· . Fifthly, now to go on, here lies the reafon · whyDivines fay that the coqverfion ofa finner is a harder work than theCreation of Heaven and Earth,for thus they do rea£on: whtn God created Heaven rand Earth ,he hadno~ing to refiil: him ; as he 'had ·nothing to help him , (he made all of nothing) fo lie had n~thing to refift him. There was bu£one difficulty in tqe Creation of Heaven and Earth;- but in the converfion ofa finner there be two difficult.es. Fidl:, here is the fame difficulty that was ~n ~reatioo,for.God makes aConvert ofnothing; I heha4nQthing tQ help him, no~one thouglit, · ' I .A. no.t ' ~ ' .,. ' /
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