that fo the Power of God might the more be manifefted : fo God fuffers deluges offin tobe fomtimes in men and women, that he might magnifie his Power fo much themore in the eflì- cacïe of means ofgrace :. But yet we are to know that fin, and every fin ofits own Nature, Both harden the heart againft God in the ufe of all the means ofgrace; yea, and fohardens the heart, that ifmen and women live any long, time under the means ofgrace, andcontinue in the waits -of fin, it is a thoufand to onewhether ever they be wrought uponafterward ufually we findwhere the means ofgrace comes toany place, it works for the moft part at the firft i I dónot, nor-will not limit God, but for themoft part at fief( it works upon men and women, be- fore they have by fin hardened themfelves a- gainft it 5 if once they have continued fore Iittle-time under it, and - their hearts-have follo- wed their fin, and fo come tobe hardened; it is I fay a molt dangerousthing, and manie times God for ever leaves them to their hardnefs; yea, Inch evil there maybe in fin, as if man or womanpath anenlightened°confcience, and fhal go againft the light of their confcience, when they liveunder themeans ofgrace, any onefin againft the light ofconfcience may for ever har- den them. Thou that haft come, to the Word andhaft heard, thefe things thou`knoweft hath comeneerto thy. foul, and yet there bath been . that violence ofcorruption to go againft the light ofthy confcience' and thatparticular truth that áaath been made known -ante thee from
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