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beariog about us this•bodie of flelh,the fieppes whereoflre fo un!layed.
)(ol."""'"'""'"-iiJ",and walking in d\is world, thewayes whereof
arefollipperi~'
!t is an
Apl!ftle~h<lt[aith
it,.Inmultis, 1mnes, &c. lnmany things weojfend,all:
andi;
IS
anotherrhat fayth, that,
whofoeverfayth otherwi{e
(not, he
IS
proud,
and there is no
hn~t,.feneffe
j
but)
he
ts
tt
lyar, and there
is
i'JV
tmth in him.
Our efiate then (as it is) needeth fome
Scriptttre,tbat ojfereth moregrace:
And
fuch there be (faith
St~
lames)
an·d,this,ls fuch. Thanhey Which have not heard the
Apojlle
and his counfell.
~i
jla't,&c.
_May yet heare the
Pro~~et h~re
andhis
%i
ceczdt~,
let
htm up.
agame; That they, whtch have not heard
Efaze s votce,Amhli/
411 •
You are
;;:i
the •••y,trerne notfrom it;
May yet heare
Ieremie'
svoice,
f<!!javerfru
cft,&c:
He that is o11t,let hirn'getinto it againe.
The Srimme:
So that, this is
thef~mme
of that I have read. Ifwe havenotbeene fo happie;
·
~s
to
ftand-:u:d·keepe
our way; iet us not be fo unhappte,as not torife,and
turne
to it
:tg\tioe. J3efi it were, befol·e we fin,
tq
fay to our [elves,
~id
facio,
What am I now
abo~tto
doe.; If we haye not t.hat, yet iS will not beamilfe,after to fay:
What foav,el
dom?
Gd,d wtll not be pleafed,ro bean'
tiS
lo fay.We lhould not
follow thofefcules
;we
ll10uld haye no wings,to lly from God: but if in
flying away,
we have followed them;
then, that we follow them roo,in the
ret~ive
or fecond Bight. In a word:
re.fterday,if
rr.,t.
9
r
7
.s.
we have notheard His voice,
To day if
IV<
willheare His voirc, not to harden our hearts,
whei).He callerh us
to~epenrance.
This is the fummc. The manner of the delivery is nof common,bot fomewh•t
un-uluall and full of
pafion;
For fedng, phine
pmnztentiam agite
doth but coldly
af.
feet us,
It
pleafeth God,
hac vice,
to take unto him the termes,the ftyle,the accents
of
pafion;
thereby to give
i~ail ed~c,tllarfoit
may make the
fpeedi~r
and deeper iti'IpreC:
tioti. .
2
1.
4
And, the
Pafion,
He choofeth, is tlpt of
Sorrew:
For, allrhtfe verfes areto6e
pronounced,,with a fott?!'l'.full
~ey. ~omnv (manl(ti~,es)worketh
us to that,
bn
melting compaffi?n,
'\ht~h
the,tJ;Jore_r{'ugh and
VI~lenr
paffions cannot get at.out
hands.
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"J:"his forrow He Clf.P\4feth, by .way of
complaint ..
(For, all the fpeech is)o)
Which' kind offpeech m'ake th the better nature to relent; as mooved,that by
H~
meanes any ll10uld:have ciufe
to
tomplaine; and not fine! redrelfe for it.
·
'Jl!ar, He
complai'!e!.
of.i~
(not
rha1~ve
fall and.erre,but) that we rife not;and
re;
ttmle
not;tnatis,fiil ael'ay;f\ifp"ut
offoucrepentance.Arid
that r.Comrarie to our own
cour(e and cufiml}till'other' things: we:dodt every.where elfqyet here we do it not.
~
.. Conrrarie to Goo.'s exprelfepkafufe."For,glad and faine He wouldheare,wedo
)'t,
yet we doe it not. 3• <:;ontrarieto t?e very light <:f nanJre.
For,thefowles
here
jly
~ef.,.em:,~nd
ll1ew bs tbe.wayto doe tt,
yet~ve
doelt riot for all
~har.
.
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Which three He uttereth by three fundty wayes of rreatie: r.
Th~
firl:):,
by
a
gentle yer forcible expoll.ulatioii
(Ver.4.) Willy9tt not?
Why will ye·not?
2·.
Thefe·
condby an earnefi protefiation
(Ver.
5
.) Hoivgreatly He d9th hearken after it.
3·
The
tl1ird, l;>y a paffionate
Apoftrophe (Ver.7 .)hy turning Him away to thefo!Vles oftheayre,
that tioe.that naturally every y.earc, whichwe cannot he got to, all ottr life long.
:..ll ,
..
Qf
wqicl~
Pafions,
to fay a word : It is certaine,the immutable cdnllancy ofthe
J?irine nat11re
i~
not
fuqj~Ct-to
them;howfoever here
orelf~where
he prefenreth him·
{cif<;
in tht!p. I.adde, that as itis
notprop.er,[o
neither it is not
.fitting
for God,thus to
~xpre\Tehimfelfe.
But that He (notrefpeCtingwhat befi may become Him,but what
'!}ay.
~eft .f~em,e
to, move us and doe us mof\
good)
choofeth ofpurpofe that
dtAlefl,
that
ch~r.aq'p_r;•bofetermes,~ijich
ate moll meet and mofi
li~ely
to affect us.
·
At)q._be~~pfe
good moral! coun(ell-plainly delivered enters but f:1intly, and of
BallionatdP\iec~es.we ha-ce;~,.more
quiak apprehenfion,He attireth His fpeech in the
~
·' ·' -· habit, utter"ethitin thS phra,Ceifigure, and accent of
anger, orforrow,or
fuch like,as
may lgeme
ro»Jl:
fit
and forcible to prevaile.with us.
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Ter't;,iltan,.ftyth,ther-eafqn (this cour[e is ufed) is
adexaggerandum
maliti~
vim,"
tq
ma~e
·t.QC..
}lilinoufnelfe of our
cantetnp~
appeare die more. Goo:(indeed) cannot
eom·