.20 Ui'ilful1mpenitentJ . 't 19ardly, at lea£1: if 'you would, andyet will not ·; neither wo1,1ld you ,reform more ifyou co1lld . ye have mony ~n ---- your pudes , cannot yo~ fpend it better than upon fwilling and drink· ing, and gaming? ye can well enough,._but yec will not. Soyou would do , had you that'. true riches, Luk! I 6. I I. Ye have natural abilities , 'if ye will not be faithful in them, fQ it would be if fo beye had better ; ye that have moral ,and civil' endowments; if ye will not b~ faithful in thetn, ,neither would ,you if God fuould lendyou more, &c. ye are able toavoid fwear~ ing and .lying , but yee wili ~ot , _neither would ye avoyd all other fins _tf ye could; if a tnan will not do that which he can; nei– t her 1vill he do that which he cannot if he ct~uld. . . , . .4. ~ confid. 4· Confidet~ If a man will not do that which he can, cat.t, or ·cannot all's one to him, all ·fiicks at hh· will. I cannot repent, and: I £annot give over myfins, fa-yefi: th0u ; and I pray thee who told thee that t~ou canH not ? I am naked/ayes ·· Adam., and who told thee that thou were na.:. ked?[ayes God, Gen. 3· I r. So may I fay, who told thee thou canfr not? do~s not thy own con~· fcience tell thee 'tis becaufe thouwilt 1zot ? I can.;. not digg fayes the lazy Steward , and to beg~ I ~m ajhamed, Luke 16. 3· Icannotdigg; if he 4ad acudgel about his back; it would m.ake him to digg ; tobegg. I.am afhamed,.fayes he ; . be was not afoamed to cozen his _M after' of his goods, but he. was ailiamed to begg. I hav~ marriedaWife, and I ctfnnot come; Luke 14. 20. ~o, what di.d his· Wife tye h~s leggs-? ·there ' ·.
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