Of ABSOLUTION; which there breedcth a TJ>oime TJ>hich never leaveth gnawing: ·Even·fo doth Efay66, u!t\ finne at the firll alfo feeme a matter of libartie. For; a lil;;erty it is·, not to be reflrained . not to be (astheApoSlle fpeaketh) committed to Mofes td bee k.ept and jhdt up under the Law_; Not to be forbidden any fruit (udder. GaL3: 2j~ whidr'very terme, rhe [etpent did perfwade it:) But when it was done Geo-3-:, and pall, then lhall a man feele apmchingor ftreigbtnejfe in his foule, tet. med by theApoftle""X•ri•, which properly fignifieth thepainewhich they Roni••.~; fulfer, that are lhut up in a narrow roome or forne pla~;e oflittlemft. So fpcakethSa0mon of finne. Hu o1vne "Wick.ednejfe Jhall att.tch thefin~ ner,and beJhall be holden,or Ptnioned, 'With the cords ofhis own fin.So S.Peter toSimon MagM: I perceive, ihou art (eo ellpreffe the former refemblante) Prov!f.:li1 in the. ga'll of bittemejfe (and to expreffe the latter) i11 tl!e bond ofiniquity. Ms8.z3. AndS.Paul :that finners,in' llead ofhavingMofos to their keeper, become 2 Tima,u!rJ theVevils capti1!es,and are ofhim holden and taken at hirwill and pleajure. Truly fome have felt as much as I fpake of,and have in pregnant terms complained of it. I amjo[aftin prifon (faith ValJid) tbatlcann9tgetout. Pfal.SS.S. , And; bring myJoule out ofprifon and I 'Will praife thee. And I "Will riinnethe 14>. lift~ Tl>ay of thy commandements, 1/Jhen thoujhaltJet my heart at liberty. 11Sl·33 .! ·Peradventure all fcele not this prefently as foonc as they have finned ; nor (it may be) a·good while after. SoGod told Cain at the beginning : bufinne jhould lye at the doore; that ,is,whilc he kept within, he fhould not Geb;~;j\ be troubled with it perhaps; but at his comtning forth, it lhould certain. lyattach him. But faith Mofes;let every one that finneth be fure,thathil .finatlafl:"Will finde bimout: Forhelhallno fooner be under arref.tof any Num. 3 ,, 23 l trouble, fickneffe, croffe, or calamity,but he lhall be lhut into his mo~"'i~· - and fc:de it prefc:qtly. As the brethrenoflojeph, for very many yeatc:S;af. Gcn; 4 2; 2 i;: ter they had ofenvie and without all pitie fold him to be a bqnd-fervant; · · feemed atliberty : No [oonet fell they into danger :md difpleafure, in ~ · ftrange country,but it came tO mind and uhey wereferYed With it flraight, , c.; • . way. Even a:s in lob, it i's faid: The finnes of ouryor;thjballlet usgo up '!nd ·lobzo:xr• downe quietly all our youth-time, but "When "We come toyeares. 'We jhallfoele thent• pinch us in our rvery bones. ~ -' !' Yea, though many, even then when they fee)c this llreightneffe ilf their foule, make meanes to put it away for the time, and feeme merry and light enough (as many times, prifoners beein the goale, till thever~ - day of the Afti:<._es come ;)yet when it is come to that, that judex eft pr.e Iamess.sli foribus, when the terror ofdeath cotnmeth;and with itafearefull expe_[fa~ tion ofjudgement;thencertainly,then ·without all doubt,theanguifh S.Paul Ileb; xo. 27~ fpeakech of,lhall.be upon elJery (oule ofelJery-one that dotb e)!il/. ''Then, ehere is no man never fo wicked,that with•his good'will would die in his fins; Iohn t. 27 ; , but would have them releafcd while he is yetin lJia,yet in che way. Then· Mat, 5·25' · wefeek helpacfi;chjtriptures as this,and ea! for the perfons to whom this Commiflion belongeth. And i:hofe, w):mtn we have gone by [even yearcs ~~getbcr1 and never faid wo'rd to about it, then we are content to fpeake - -· - - - - - ~~ eee l with 1
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