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(Notifies
to
perfavade
vs
to
haffen
our
repentance.
389
Canticles we
(hall
long
feeke
him
but
not
find him
without
great
difläcultie,
yea perhaps wee may
feeke
him
as
Efate
fought
his
bleffing
with
teams and neuer
find him?
CHAP.
'XX'VIII.
O
fthefourth
motiue,takenfrom
diicultie'of
repenting;
can,
fed
by
delayer.
He
fourth motiue to
perfwade
vs
to
fpeedy
re-
pentance and
turning vnto
God,
is,that the
lon-
ger
we deferre
it
the
harder
wee fhall
find
it,
for
the
difficultie
thereof
wilbe much
increafed
by
delay,
and our
felues
alto
who-are vnfit
to
day will
be
more
vnfit
tomorrow the
reafon
hereofare many;
firfkbecaufe
by
continuali
finning wee
get
a
cutiome and habite
of
fin-
ning,
and
if
a
cufiome
which
is
but
affe&,Ied
be
hardly
left,
what
Thal
we fay
ofa
cufionne
which
is
confirmed
by nature,
or
what
is
nature
firengthened
by
euliome
?
who knoweth
not that
the
drunkard
is
more
eafily
reclaimed fr6 his
drun-
kennelfe when he
firfi
falleth
to
this vice then
when
he
hath
Iong
liued in
it;
that the
fwearer the
longer
bee vfeth
and
ìnureth
his
tongue to
fvearing,
the
more
hardly
can
hee
forbeare
it;
and the couetous
man
as
he
increafeth
in
yeeres
increafeth alto
in
couetoufneffe?
and the
like
maybe
fayd
of
al
other
vices.
Neither
neede
this
(cane
firange
vnto
vs,
fee
-
ing
it
is
a
thing
apparent
in
reafon and
in experience; for
the
longer
the
difeafe
bath
poffe-ífed
the
body the
more hardly
it
is
cured,and
therfore
that
counfaile
is
goad,tenienti
occurri-
te mark),
preuent the
difeafe
before it bath
feafed
on
thee,or
prefently
after
it hath
taken
place remoue
it.The longer the
fore
is
negle
&ed
the more it
fefireth;
&
the
greater
difficul-
tie thereis to
heale
it
;
the longer
the tree
groweth
the
dee-
per roote it
take
-th,
and
the more hard
it
is
to
pull
it
vp; the
enemie
is,more eafilie
kept
from fcaling
the
walles,then
bea-
ten
backe when
he
is
entred
into
the
mi
c
of
t
e
ciue ;an
fo
it
is
with
finnes and
vices, facibus
re elluntur-guam
expel
-
luntser,,rne
.re
aore,eafil
kept rom
entrance:
t
en.
cotent
That
the
longe
we
deft,' re
re-
pentanee,the
more hardly
we
(hall
repent,.
i.
Becaufe
jin
will
grow oufit
niable.
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