• H'ilfullmpenitency · prickt., I cannot over it;what? is t~ere a Thorn Prov. tS· hedge in the way ? No, for the rtghteous that 19· goes it , he finds it plain , he fees none, -no ; ' there is no fuch Thorn-hedge in , the way, but ·he does imagine one ; and t_herefore .his will-not is his let , not his cannot , for h~ does but irrutg}ne a cannot. So doefl: thou_fay, I cannot do thus and thus;why then art thou floth- . full to imagine more capnots , and Thorn-bed– . ges than there are? 1 cannot live t~en. Oh I cahnot go fo often to prayer, and tfi iliould dq fo as you fay , I Otould be houted at up and down ; you tell me I am a Hellhound for my pride and ·my paffions-; Oh If l £hould be– tiev'e this, I fhould never have merry day more. Alas all thefe are but 'imaginary cannots, ima- .t)nary Thorn ·hedges. I cannot be- fo firict , neither can I put it up. I fay thou doft but ima~ gine a company of cannots, and therefore thoN wilt not. _ 2. Demonflration. If thou be flothfull to zDe1pon~ good duties , then thou mi!tk..fft every little diffi- / cultya cannot; ·nothing but an impo!fibiHty is a cannot. But,if thou beeft fiothfull, thou ma– kefl: every little difficulty a cannot. I carinot turn mine own heart,nor break mine own heart: but why then art thou flothfull , to make every little difficulty a .cannot ? a flothfull man makes every little difficulty a cannot. The p 0 $ flothfull manwill not plowby rettfqnof cold, and r v. 2 e, and therefore foalJ he begin harveft andh~tve no.;. thing. He will not plow by reafon of cold, he flicks at avery little difficulty , his fingers·are· fo tender forfooth, they muft not ak'e ' his / · Toes / I (\ 0 ..
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