part.t.Cap.8~ Afjli[fcdConfl:icnces. . perverted, thy will more fiubborne, thy memory more fiuft with fcnfuall notions, thine aft~&ions will become more rebellious, thy thoughts more earthly, thine heart more hardened, thy confcience morefea-:- red, thy fclf more fold to fin ne, and every day that comes over thine head in trois fiate of darkendfe , . · much more the Child of the Devill, then thon ware before. To refufe Christ upon this point fo freely and fairely offered, is to receive Gods cur.fe.undcr Seale; and to make fure thy covenant with Hell, and League with death, untill thou be ilaine by the one, and [wallowed up of the other, without all mercy , _ or recovery. For in this time of delay, God growes more angry, Satan more firong, thy felfe more unable to repent, finne more unconquerable, thy conver- . 1 ·!ion inore hard, thy falvation more unpoffible. A rui- ......t' nous houfe, the longer thou.letteO: it rurme, the more 1\. labour and charge will it require in repairing. If thou drive a naile with an hammer, the more blowes thou givefl: to it, the more hard will it be to plucke it out againe. It is jufi fo in the Cafe of continuing in finne : . . ' ~ i • and every new finne is a new firoke with an hammer, that drives the naile in further. Secondly, with wh.at poffibility art thou like to paffe thor<i>W the great worke of faving Repentance? Or with what heart can!l: thou addreffe thy felfe unto it ? when . upon thy Gcke Bed, thou art {et upon at once, if thy confcience be waking, 'With the ugly fight of all thy finn!!S c~arging upon thee· with ~nfupportable hor- g'I'empore mMisfovirour, .Wlth the pangs of deatM, With g Satans utmofi ilr majori~ da/a ttntat malice, and His very Powder-Plot, and with theter- & confli.git ~ · fcien_s fi ~;our of that approaching firickt Tribunall. Which tunc tkftmst, pcmws_ d de 11 · bl · h ft ;-- · (e /ru[tratum.Gerfon. rea IU encounter IS a e to put to It, t e pmtuall de rem tationibus di- ~rength of many yeares gathering. Thirdly, Refolu- ver. P · t1on to deferre Repentance, when grace is off.:red 3 . cloth ju!l:ly merit, to be deprived forever after of ali ~ · opportunity~ and ability to repent. Fourthly,rtisjufl: . 4 . R with
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