The firale.4iference,of mens apprehenfions 409 hash been pleafeeito deanfe the heat , to what there Was be- fore: .lere now you may lee Ole ground of the great ignorance that there is in the world,it is not becaufe the things of trod are io hard to be underflood, únd that, becaufe they have no means to underhand them, but becaufe of the fìlrhi- nefs of their léarts, no mervaile though men and women live under means, and hear Sermons, but yet have not known what Jefus Chrifl hath meant, feeing their hearts are fo filthy and unclean: In the 27ïm: 3. 7, you find there, the Apohle fpeaks of women that were ever learning, and never were able to come to the knowledge of the truth ; And fo it maybe applyed to men, to thole that are ladenwithfini, and led away with divers tufts, They are ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth : Why do they not come to the knowledge of the truth? why, becaufe they are led away with lulls, and laden with fins : When men and women have un- cleaneffe in their hearts, and are laden with corruptions in their fpirits, why no naervait though they never come to the knowledge of the truth ; and therefore do nor think your ig- norance can excufe you, to fay, why I do according to my knowledge, and all men cannot attain to the like knowledge as other men : Alas, I am a roor crea-ure, and am but weak and not able to underhand things fo as others do : O it not for want of the Rrength of thy underhand ing fo much, but the filthinefie of thy heart, thole filthy Reams that arife from thy corrupt heart, they darken the light of the truth that it cannot fhìne into the ut derhanding, G g g SERMON
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