Fenner - BT800 F4 1658

·. .. "' I 16 WilfullimpenittNCJ {o pure forfooth?. So tqen. th~ re~fon is be· caufe that thou wdt not; tf thywtll were not it, , thou wouldfr ne\~er be content with thy can– not ; the Congregation is -bad, and thou loveil t{) ha71e it fo , the more cufiome thou fualt have · for thy Ale-houfe ; like a ~ad Clerlz Qf the ..A ffi ~ei, .I heard one fpeak it qty felf, he was glad there was fo many Rogues, he had the more money ; fo fome of you are glad there be fo· many frequenters ·of the .Ale-/?ench, ye have the more·cujfom, ye love to have it to; y~ can.. not rcf~rm the fins of one another, .andyet love to b11,ve it fo. · c: The · Prefuppofitions premifed , and the Demonfl:rations prefixed , it follows now that I lay down the ground of thi5 necelfarytruth. ( Scil.) . _,.'. The reafonw~y tJ t!'i.el;.§d matt doth not turn untfEl God,is not becaN[e he cfl,nnot(tho#gh he ca·nnot)but·~ beeaufe.he -ppil/ nDt. \ . : = ~ He cannot fay this at the day ofJudgement, : Lord, thou k...noweft I left every fin that I could,- ~and I tookall the beft courfes that I could to he- ··_· co111-e a. newcreature, but I could not... Awicked 'man tballJ10t be ahle to fay thus with_out~yJ.ng -: The' man th theGofpel that had not on thewed:. tlinggarm~nt ' , couldhe fay,Lord I was not able' to go to thefoop ofthe Gofpel to feek one?No,he wasfpeuhlefs, Matth.22. 12. God fi~ds out the hypocrite, though hut one, and whenohce dit: covered, he is confoundedand filenced with the ·'puilt of his own wi~fu!nef~. TI~E .. '

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