3 94 Motaues topeffwade vs tohaften ourrepentance. die to fiunc againe ; vntill by long cuf+orne in finning their hearts are hardned and their confciences rfeared as it were with a hot iron,fo as none 'without any checke or reinorfe, yea,with all pleafurc anddelight theycannot commit thofe fnnes, which in former times they would haué trembled to haue entertained into theirreacts thoughts. ,.Sea.6. Sixtly,the longer wee dcferre our repentance, the more 6. ncearfe the vneffc6fuall will the ineanes bee ofour conuerfion ; for the wages grow word of God will either (often our hearts like waxe, tsr vnef eCtuall by harden themlike clay,eith.er it will:bethe fauour oflife vnto delates. life, or the fau-our ofdeath toour. deeper condemnation, as is i.Cor.z.i6. 2.Cor.2..16. ¡fit oncegoeout ofGodsmouth, itfhall not returne ;vuto íhimvoide, but it !hall accon9plifb that which hewill, and it fhallproper in the thins rrheretohefendeth it,(vvhetherit befor the conuerfion or hardening ofthofe who heare it) as it is Efa.55. ir. Efa.s x.11. We know. ifa falue be appliedveto awound,ei- ther it healeth it,or els thefore ouerc6ming thevertue there- ofdoth more fefler and ranckle, and fo this fpiritnall falue being appliedvnto our foules woundedwith(nne, doth ei- ther cure them, orelfe becomming vneffeduall, they waxe worfe and vvorfe.When men fleepe, and are fuddenly wake- ned with force firange and vnufuall found, they prefentl e Bartvp-and.are amafed, but after a long time they hauebeen acquainted withthenoife, they can fleepe fecurelie and not bemuch.difquieted ; fo when men fleeping in carnall fecuri- tie are awakedwith the rhreatnings ofthe lawpreached vn- to them,whichlike Canon-íhot thundreth in therreares,they are atfiríf fomevvhat routed vp and begin to looke About rhern,but giuing themfcIues to fleepe againe in theirfinnes, after they hauebeenmany times awakned, at WI this feare- full found nothing rnooues nor difquiets thcm,neitherwill anything waken them out of this, fpirituall lethargie, but the voice ofthe Archangell commanding them to arife and to cornevnto iudgetnent. §Seel 7 Seuenthly,if\;ce deferre our conuerfionvntil our oldage, 7. necattfe old it will then be more hardand difficult then in the the timeof agcis moreva- youth ,becaufe old men aremore indocible & vnfit to learne frtforrcpen- then they tiereintheir outhfull,daies and therefore who_ ;t i,ce,lliea y ÿ r yurttb. .foctier
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