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why
fo
difficult
to
recover
Mint
err
that
are
fallen
back.
their
hearts
and confciences, and will
rather
preach
thofe.
truths that
are
eafie
generall
truths, that
(hall not come neere.
any mans
confcience
;
then there
is
not
fait
in
their
teaching,
but
rather
a
flattering
and flight kind
of
way
they minifter
the
truths
of
God,
and
they
come
to mingle their
preaçhing
with,
fuperftitioufnefs,
and
their
preaching
is
onely to
lift
up
exter
-.
nail
things,to preach
for
fuperflitious
vanicies.A child of
God,.
one
that
bath
grace in
his.heart,
how un!avory
is
this
preach-
ing to
him
?
Many
that
have
been
flow in
preaching,when
they
come
to
(peak agaruft
thofe
that
preach the true
word
of
God,
they
are mighty
hot
and fierce
.againft
them.; thefe preachers
are
fuch
as
Chriff
calls unfavory
preachers
;
if
fo
be
that
Mini-
Hers
have
loft
their
favour, and now come
to
be
floatlifull
in
their
wayes,
and fluggifil in
their
Minif}ery,
then
they
have
loft
their
favour,
wherewith (hail
it
be
falted, it
is
almofi
an
itnpoflible thing ever
to
recover
a
Mintier
that bath
fallen
off
from
the truth
of
the Gofpel
;
take
any
Minifter that hereto-
,It'savery
rare
fore bath been
any
thing forward,
and now is fallen off from
thing
for
Mi-
the truth
of the-qiofpel, it's rare if
ever he be recovered.
I
xliRera
to
te
will
not
fay,
none at all, .but
it
is a
rare thing.
when
Y>
>
b>
they
are
Of
ce
Frill
,
In
regard
of
the pride of their hearts,
they
fcorne
fallen back.
to
be
taught
of others, or
to
be
knowne
that
they
have gon
in
erronious wayes, yea though fometimes
their
confciences con
-
dernne them, yet the
pride
of their hearts
will
not
let
them
acknowledge the errour of their
wayes.
Secondly, The
ftrength of
their
natural! parts being cor-
rupted
by
their
finne,
is
now
imployed
to keep
off
the truths
of
God that
fhould doe them good.
Juft
as,
it
is
with
a man
that
bath
a
fore in
his
body
,
the nourifhment
of
his
body will
run
to the feeding
of
that
fore,
and
fo
with
mans
wickedneíle,
and
there
is
a
curie
ofGod
upon
them,
and
it
is
very
rare
that
ever they (hall
come to recover
again
;
how few Minifters
that
were
Malignants and
wicked,
that did
returne
onely
at
filch
times
when
they were
abfolutely
necefltated
thereunto..
And therefore
by
the
way
it
fhould
take off
the
offence
that
men Vumble
at
when
they fee learned men doe thus
and
thus,
when
learned
men
have
loll
their
favour,
doe not
.be
offended
at"