Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

ll J ' , , • in this, when aman is ditlralfted betweene G~l ' 1 and fome other objett; 1-fay,betweeneGodarid · · _\, .riches, betweeneGodand·credit, betweeneGod \ · ·and pleafure, and is fometime applying himf~lfe · ;.·1 · to one, and fometime.to another, and fo hegoes • adouble way. So that when a man hath two f prindpall objeds, and two-principaU.ends, ap· onwhich his eye is fet,whe he hatn two inward prindptes within,that are the caufe ot,his moti· . on, this-way and that way, fueh aman i$ ad"~- A double .b/emindedman ; hee is a fingie hearted man th'at =~r::ed man, · · choofeth Godalone, and though he'walke im-: 1 : .perfediy with him, yet he choofeth him. · I .,. . NowifamanapprehendG1d.r AU-fofficie~&J, ./ he will choofe himalone, ·ifhe doe fl~t, it is im"': i poffible he iliouldchufehim alone, but heewill joyne fomewhatelfe withhim ;forifhe thinke there is but apartia~lfofficiency in :G~d, and that there is fomeftiffciency in any Creature beftdes, . it Jnuft needs be that hee ~uft haue an eye upon both, & then his wayes will be uneven,.then his rvtty i5 unftahle;and, therefore, I fay;the c~mfeof that inftabilitie to whic:hmen are fubjecr,is, be– ·caufethey doenot apprehend -Godto be All-fof– ftcient,fory~umuftknow this by the way, that there isadouble infrabilitie(rhat word isufcd in lam I. -8 .Adoublemindedmttninm(lahleinallhis Jnthbdirie w-aies.One is an inll:abilityberween twoobjeas doubtr.• 1 whichmakesupall tl!J.efufflcieney that he deftres, I~m . (.a. fothat ,the.re'is apartofrhatfofficiency in one,& part ofit in another. The fecond is an infiabilirie in following one objechhat hee bath chofen.- C 2 . Indee~?~ ~~ I I '

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