·.w;!folimpenitency- ·. ' . ing to promote any goDd 'Work..,.till men tt~gJeE! r- ' or conttmn. And thts leaves men wholy wr,thoNt exc~j{, and £hews it is not their &llm.zot, but their . , Will not~ which betrays them tO ,their fpiritaal . loffei; namely their -wilfol rejectingof G~ds gra.-: tiOHJ offers. . . . I I I ' ' . •· Pref,p. · lestrue, Godgives thewickedbNt one Taltnt, when he giveth his children !our, two at ~he ., ... leaff; but they~annot fayhe 1s ~tuftere,reap'~lr ·" · "RJhere he [()wed nrJt, ·gathering ~he~e he ftrowea not. No, There"'sthe fame proportton between one, Talent, and g~tthering one more, as there is 1/et-we'en two, and the gathering of two o-:- . . . •;. .. thers ' &c. ' · ' . You know_that they are readytocomplain, ~s Chrift fuews lt in the Parable, _Lord, I k.pow that thou waft"' hard man, reaping wh~re thon haft not [owtJ , and gathering where thou haft not ftrowed: But ye remember alfo the Lords ~nfwer : Thqu wicked -and floathful fervant; &t. Mat. 2). 26. Mark,h~ cafrstheblameup– on his wilfulfle[s , that he would not take pains for to trade. .So the wicked complain, alas God h'lth not fow'en any power ~f cowver– fion 1n my heart; and will he' look for to reap it ? This is a#fterenelfe and hardnef[e of dealing. Oh thou wicked and floathful fer· Vanr, &c. Why didf\: thou not ·tYitde with the Talent that I ,gave thee ? ·One Talent fhould beget one,- as well as two beget two, &c. But ' , I ga~e thee 'wit, and thou buriedjf it,ln the e'ttrt~., and frail: beenearthly with··it ; rgavethee k..,11o-w~ ledge·, and thou haft hid ·it in the ~artb, and ~ot traded for reform~etion according to it, &c~ · Alas'
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