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Ephefrans,
Chap.q..
V
E
RA.
Doti.
with
hardneffe
of
heart, a blind
mind,
.4f-ewe
of
Gads
grace,
read
ncffeto
Hardnetfe
of all
evill.
Whence
we
fee,
that
finnes
gee not alone,
of
edgily hardneffe
heart
is
accom-
!
heart,
but
one
followeth
on the
necke
of
another.
As
in
the body if
panicd
with
Ya
niany
evils.
the ltomach doe
not
his
office,
the
head will be the worfe, the
liver
cannot doe
his
part,
many evills are coupled one to
another:
i
in
the
foule,
&c.
For
finne
hath more
confederations then one,
for
it
is
not onely an offence,
but
a
punifhment
of
fome former,
a
delèrt
of fu-
ture
finne,
as
a
juft
recompence
of
reward,
Rom,
r.
a8.
.
-.1s
they
re-
2
The.
z.ao.
garded
not
to knew God,
fe god
gave
them
up to
a
reprobate
mink,
Becau
fe
11.13.
they
received
not
the
truth
with
love,
God
gave
tbemuptofirengdelufions
to
beleeve lyes,
that
they
might
be
damned.
vie.
Wherefore
it
troth
behove
us
to
take heede
of
hardneffe
of
heart,
as
which bath attending
upon
it
a
world
of
evill
:
And
if
we
Tooke a-
bout well,
we
!hall,
finde
that
we have all
of
us
too
much
of
it.
What
makcth
us fo
little affeaed when
we
fee
the heaven,and the earth with
Signcs which
the furniture
of
them, that
we praife
not,
feare
not
him whofe
good
-
hardneifc
oft
neffe and
power
is
manifefted
in
theme
if
we
fee
a
Lyon
in
the
Tower,
heart more
or
or form
ftrange creature, we will talke
of it;
this
is a
hardneffe
of
heart.
What
maketh
us
heare
of
judgements,
as
the
plague dcftroying
thoufands
weekely, thefeinundations, ftrange
and
prodigious
appari-
tions
in
the ayre,
and
be
no
whit moved? it
is
the
hardneffe
of
our
hearts.Pbaraohregarded not
fo
many perfonall judgements
of
God
up-
on
him,
becaufe his
heart
was
hardened.
What
maketh
us
when
we
have
good
purpofes
in
afllidions,
not
to
performe
them!
it
is
the
hardneffe
of
heart, by
reafon
whereof
we
are
the old
men when the
rod
is
of, Exod. 9.
What
dotti
make
us
when
the
Word
commeth
neere
us,
that
we difcerne it
to
meete with us,
what
maketh that
it
go.
eth away with generali termes, Lord
have
mercy
on
use
he
tells
us
the
truth,
but
the
hardneffe of
heart,
this doth
caufc it
to drop
off, and
not
enter,
as
the rocke
doth
fhoote
off
water.
What
maketh
us heare
the
curfe againfi finne
and never tremble what maketh
us
heart
the
promifes and never clafpe them
with
joyfulneffe,
but
hardneffe
of
heart
a
Finally, when our foules have juif
caufc
to
humble
themfelves
and feeke
to
God, what
maketh
us
flip
the collar
and
turne
afide
to
this
or that, but
hardneffc
of
heart
as
the Apoftle
maketh impeni-
tencie
to
come from this ground,
Rom.
2.5.
Thou after
thy hardnefre
and
a heart
that
cannot repent,
treafteref
up to
tby
felfe wrath
again!! the
How to get
it day
of
wrath.
Now
then what mutt we
doe?
vinfw.
We
muttdeale
cured.
for
our foules
as
we doe
for
our
bodies; if one
fhould
affure
us
that
we
have
the fione bred, nay
a fpice of ir,
we would
clenfe our kidnies
quickly: So now
we tell you
that you
have the
Icon
in
the heart,how
thnuld
you pray againft
it
a
feeke
to the
healing
God
that
healeth
dour
rebellions,
and laveth
ses
freely, ply him with
his
promife, that bath
faid,
Eiecks
rag.
I
willtake
away
the
heart
of
f
one,
and
give
yep a
heart
of
flelt
.
Take heeds
of
it,
if
God
did
punifhitin the
heathen
that
refitted by
meanes
of
it
but the
light
of
nature,
how
willl he punith it
in
you
that
!hall refift
the
light
of
the
glorious Gofpell
of
Jefus
Chrift.
Vuesi