arting from vicious Habits. 229 happily difpofed to abufe, fo as to make it the S E R M. occafion of their greater obflinacy. But it is VIII, plain that the fcripture í1i11 urgeth them to amend, and ufeth many exhortations, and powerful perfuafives to that purpofe, which fuppofeth a poffibility of fuccefs, otherwife they would be in vain, and could hardly be reconciled to the wifdom and goodnefs of God, and they have been fuccefsful in fome inftances. Nay, and thofe reprefentations I have mentioned, as they Rand in the places referred to, are defign'd aggravations of guilt delivered in the way of reproof, to try if pof- fibly the minds of finners could be deeply affeaed, and fo prevailed with, to exert their power, for their own amendment. The proper application of all which hath been. Paid, is to habitual finners. They are of various forts ; fome are addi &ed to cuflo - mary debauchery, to rioting and drunkenn f, as the apoflle exprefieth it, to chambering and wantonnefs, either in a more open and pro- fligate, or in a more fecret manner, under the hypocritical profefl'ion of religion ; fome have . contra&ed habits of profanenefs, others of in- juftice. But whatever the particular vice be, (one is mortal as well as another, and he who cuflomarily offendeth in one point, is guilty of all) they will find their condition defcribed, Q 3 in
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