l''tt 11~ AS4int or~ Br~ie: 's11d the [piriunl Regeneration : ~nd thereforeexce;t aman !Je !JorH ttg~~t;.•f the /jJrit as wdJ. as o( Wllt!r, he c;mnot enter int~J the Kingdrnn Gj He~~Zvm,loh.3·3,S. · . This inwad. differenc.e of Jnc/ination.ns thtz true .caufe of the .•• difference of the jdgem.ents an~ the f~Hrbs of men, about the __7- -– rnarters of God anu.. he~r falv~uo,n. . . . ~ . _ ...--r/ ~. Thu is it thac makes tou~ny to thmk none .wife bu~M~ that aremore dangeroujly TiJMa then mt:u:r..i fllt.JJr<t'TI'. ; a-fl{f that makes fo manyothers fiand in douht as men Hnrefohied what to choofe, ar«d what courfe to follow: As· if' it were t,eally a 4ifficult point for :1 man to be refolved in, Whether it be 1Peft and Wijeft w fol– low the teachings of God, or of the flejb : and to fee~ firft the J(ingdo~ and RighttoNfnefs of God, or.~~ m~ke a pudder ~or nothing m the world ; and to claw thts ttchmg t:ldh awhtle, though they mufl: fmart for it for ever~ or to m~!ler the flefh and Jive to God ! In a word; the world are half unrefolved, [whether it be bet– ter to he Holy "ffith Gods promife of 8ternal Glory, or to tak.J th~ Ple,zfuresof jinforafeafon, andneglefl thuHo/inefs, thoPtghthi.r courfe6e threatned !Py the Living God With l!verlaftint torments ?] This is the true fiare or the Qiefl:ion, which I fay one part of the world doth feem to be unre[olved in, and another pan: are re(ol– 'IJedon the worfer fide, againll their fouls and a Holy life ; andonlJ thofe that the illuminating fanetifying fpirit bath refolvtd; do choofe the needful better pdrt. The ~eafon of this diftrailed judgement of the mofi, is ,vithi11 themfelves. It is not becaufe that there is any f uch difficulty in rhecafe,as fhouldpatawifernantoafiand; Nor it is not be– caufe they have not fufilcient evidence in the word, or that God ~enyed them Teachers, Books, or any Nece!Tary Means for their mformarion. The Light is among them ; but they Lo11e it not becaqfe their hearts and deeds are evil, and their dark._nef.r doth mt comprehendi t; and d~is is their delufion, and their condemnP~tion, Joh. I. 6, 7, 8. & J. 19. When I am preaching to acongregation of many hundred or thoufand 1Aouls, if the falvation of alt that people did lie upon aJZ} other queflion no hardtr then thiJ that we have in hand, fo it .were fuch as flefhly interefl:, and corrupted minds and wills had no quarrel againfi, how eafily, how furely fhould I favethe fouls of alLthat ~ea.~d me ! Reader, let me have thy judgement. If v P the
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