196 Vire `lionsfor(getting and keeping b any vain thing before Gods Word and Wor(hip, or loath; ordelpife it, becaufe of fomeweaknefs in the fpeaker : and we may in a great ineafure reftrain our thoughts from wandring, and force our felves to . attend ; and labour when we come home to recall it to mind. We cannot call on God fo fervently, be- lievingly or delightfully as we would : But yet we may do it fincerely as we can, and do it conftantly. We cannot inftruft our children and fcrvants, and reprove or exhort our neighbours, with that bold nefs, or love and compaflion and difcretion, and meet exprefsions, as we would : But yet we may dó it faithfully and frequently as we are able. So that youmay fee in all this what fin it is that Sul (peaks of,Rom,7.when he faith, When he would do goo& evil is _ prefent with him ; and that he is lead captive to theLaw offin, and ferves the Law of fin with his flefh : and Ga1..4.17. when he faith, We cannot do the thififs that we Woa:ld ; he fpeaks not of wilful finning, or grofs fin, but of unavoidable in- firmities ; whereby alto we are too often drawn into a committing of many fins which we might avoid (forfo the heft do.) And becaufe you may often read and hear offing of Infirmity, as diftinguifhed from other fins, let me here give you notice,that this word may be taken in feveral fenfes, and that there are three feveral forts of fins ofInfirmity in the Godly. z: There are thofe fins which a man cannot avoid though he would : which are in the gentleft' fenfecalled Sivas of I=2 firmity. Here note, I. That 11dam had none fuch. 2. And that the reafon of them is becaufe, i. Our reafon which should direft, and
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