a 236. DireEionsforgetting andkeeping And confcience fecondsit,and faith,Thouart the man. But the flefh cries louder then both thefe, thou leave thy pleafures ? wilt thous undo thy felf ? wilt thou bemade afcorn or laughing lizotk to all ?Or rather it ftrongly draws and provoketh, when it path no. thing to fay Ño wonder ifthis poor firmer be here in a ltrait, and live in diftrefs ofminde. But as long as the flefh holds fo faff, that all this convi6tion and troublewill not caufe it to tole its hold, the poor foul is [till in the bonds of iniquity. The cafe of fuch an hypocrite or half -Chrifian is like the cafe of the poor Papift, that havingglutted himfelf with flefh in the Lent, was in this ftrair,that either he muff von mit it up, and fo difclofe his fault and undergo pe- nance ; or elfe he muff be fickofhis furfeit, and haz- zard his life : But he refolveth rather to venture on thédanger, then to bear the penance. Or their cafe is like that ofa proud woman, that hath got on a ítrait garment, or a pinching (hoe, and becaufe fhe Will not be out of the fa(bion, fhe will rather choofe to bear the pain, though fhe halt or fuller at every ífep.Or like the more impudentfort of them,who will endure the cold, and perhaps hazzard their lives, by thenakednefs oftheir necks and breads and arms, rather then theywill controul their fhamelefs pride. What cure now fhould a wife man with to fuch peo- pleas thefe ? Surely, that the ¡hoe might pinch yet a little harder, till the pain might force them to cart it off. And that they might catch force cold that would pay them for their folly (lo it would but fpare their lives) till it thould force them to be afhamed of their pride, and cover their nakednefs : Even fo when difobedient hypocrites do complain that
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