278 A Box of precious Ointment; Or, and rifeth again. Eccl. 7, 2 o. For there is not a jug man urn the earth that doth gord, andlinneth not. Luke 17. 4. If he tref- pfs ag.;.infl thee feven times in a a loy,and fi'ven times in a day turn a c.;?4 s ;1/,"0 bee, fiijing, I repcnt,thou (halt forgiVe him. Mat. i 8. Ihen came Peter to him, and fail, Lord, how oft lb.& Bey brother fn ag,i,,,j11 me, and I forgive hi -n, till fevea times? eirms aith, untahim, I fay not lento thee, until f even times, tut un- til reventy times feven. james 3. 2. For in many things we off end all ; or we flumble all, as the Greek has it. r ohn t . 8. If axe f4). we have no fin we deceive our felvet, and the truth /4 not in m. Ver. io. If we fly we have not finned, axe rn,:ke him a lyar, and his word is not in us. And what did the continual burnt- cx b rerino which was to be made day by day import, but a daily finning, and expiating of it ? &c../VAlm. 2 R: ;. Such is the univerfal corruption of humane nature that the fouls of the heft, of tla. rural-, and of the holiea men in the world, do from day to day, vea from moment to moment, contraa fume filth and unc4leannefs. The choicell Saints Can never acTit thernfelves from fins of infirmity, "filch as do inevita- bly and infeparably cleave unto the bell of men, elpecially Confidering the Date and condition wherein they are,, carry- ing Bill about them corrupt flefh and blond, Methodius com- pares the inbred corruptions of man's' heart to a wild Fig= tree, growing upon the wall of force goodly Temple or flate- ly Palace, whereof although the main trunk of the flem be broke ofF, and {tamp of the root be y)lucked up, yet the brouS firings of it 1.iercing into the joynts of the flone work, wiltnot be utterly extraed, but will beever and anon £hooting and fprouting out, until the whole frame of the building be cliffolvd ?nd the Rorie work thereof be dif- joynte and phlled in pieces. SeCbrid,V, It is nOt fuChta tn fL o° .? fin, as that the true` penitent (hall never relapfe into the fame kind of -fin any I more l for a true penitent may, fall into the fame fin again and again It was a fin fo.r the difciples to ile'ep when Chbrifl: 4'11, 41: had commanded them to Watch and oray, and yet they 'lent 1 again and again. The 'prophet 'Was a holy man, aim 41.)41.31344)47. ye f
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