(SI) ·yet you may' not be brought to your {elves : and yiefd to grace that you maybe fned. And they fhall be the Arguments that lie before yoli here in the Text. ,1: REmember, it is Neceffity that is pleaded with you in my Text. One thiHg is NeceJ{ary. Neceffity, and your own N ece.J!ity , is fuch an Argument , as one would think of it felf ihould turn the fcales, and fully refolve you , and put you paft -any further deliberation or delay•.If Nece/]ity, your own Necef– Jity, and fogreat N ecejfity to fo great an End, will not prevail with you, What will? Necef1ity is that: ingens telum that natural rca– fon taketh to be unrefiHible. Men think they may do almofr any thing, if they can fay NeceffitJ commandeth it : Owmem legem frangit., m~tgnum illud human.e imbecillitatu patrocinium , fairh Scneca. What is it that Neceffity feemeth not fufficient to. jufiifie wilh the moll ? And we wiU grant the Argument to b~ undeny– able, if it be from abfoltite Neceffity indeed, and if men will not dream that it is more _7Vecelfary to be Rich, or Honourable , or to Live, then to be Holy, and to be Blejfed with God, and to pleafe him that created them. Vbi necej]itM inct-tmbit, non ultra di!Jm– .randum eft, fed celerrime & fort iter ~tgendum. Words fignifie no– thing againfi N eceffrry : Reaf~n is but hindering troublefom folly, when it pleadeth agamfl: NecejJity. Omni arte, omm ratione effica– cior necejfita~. c~rt. In worldly matters, howquick-fighted, how refolure, how active is Neceffity. ? What conquerable difficultie5 will it not overcome? What labour will it not endure, if it have but the encouragement of hope? And yet thi& Neceffiry is indeed, no true Necejfity at all. For that which is Neceffary but to my ~-redit, or eftate, or health, or life, can be no more Nece/Jary then ts my credit, and eftate, andhealth, and life it felf. When men do but fancy a Neceffity where there is none, yet that will carry them through thick and thin. But 0 Sin, youhave a red unde– nyable ZX,sceffity to be Holy~ and to fet your felves to the work of yo~r falvation; fuch a Nece!Jity as is founded in your Natllre, and la1d on you by your Mak,sr, and as all the true Reafon in the ~~rld will confefs to be indifpenfable Necrffity. Faxis ut libeat quodeft neceffe; M~k~ ~2 ~2~~ ~~~~~ ~~~n, but Refol11e and ft irrc when ic . H z ---- --. - --- . .. .. ti ~ - .
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