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Secondly,while wee hue in our
finnes
wee
continue
in Sa-
4,Se
.3.
tans,thraldome,andhehath
full poffef
ioi
ofvs
;
which pof-
.
Beam!
sa
feflìon
the
longer
he
holdeth
the more
badly
will
he
be
cafl
tan
will
more
oat
;
for
as
thofe who
haue
along
time
quietly inioyed their
hardly
be
caß
houfes
&
lands,
though
their title be
but
weak,yet
are
more
Cut
cf
hás
poi
hardlie
difpoflyd,
then
if
at
their
first
entrance
their
right
h
ets
l
e
had
been called
into
queflion.both
becaufe
long
cu11otn
hath
hel,:°71
rt,
initthe
nature
ofa
law, and the parties themfelues will bec
more
earnefl
in
vfing
all
meanes
to
retaine
-their poffeflìons
which
they
haue
longhekl,tirne
hauing worne out
al
doubt-
ing
of
their
right
:
fo
Satan
istuore
hardlie thruft
out
of
his
pofhefïìon
when
he
bath long kept it,
becaufe
his
long'hol-
ding
of
vs
in
his
thraldom maketh
him imagine
that
he
bath
right
to hold
vs
Rill,
and
hee
is
moil
earnefl in vfing all
his
flrength
and policie
;
to hold that which
hee
bath
alreadi.e
gotten
and
long
keptin
his poffeflion.
We know that when
-a
fouldier
in
fight hath taken another
captiue,
at
fitf
he vfeth
all
meanes
to breake
from
him,
as
hauing
better opportunity
when they
are
fhl
in
the field,then
he
can
hope
for after
when
he
is
carried
away
and
claptvp inprifon
:
and
as
he
bath
lefhe
meanes,fo
alfo
he
hath
lefl'e
defire
to
efcape;after
that by
con
-
tinuance
of
time,
his
captiuitie
is
made
more
familiar
vnto
him
:
and
we
commonly
fee
that
a
bird
as
foone
as
Thee
is
ta-
ken,
fluttereth and
ftriuieth
to
get
away
;
but
after
fhee
bath
been a
while in the
cage,fhee
is
content to
flay
there (till,
though
the doore be open
;
and
fo
-it is
in
our fpirituall
thral-
dome,
at
the
firf
wee
have
bell
meanes
to
efcape
and
moil
defire
alfo, for after wee are
inured
to
Satans
captiuitie we
are
content
to
remaine his bondflaues
11111.
And
if
wee
de-
fire
to
efeape.
he
would
more difdaine
that
we fhould flriue
and oppofe our
felues
againfl
rim,
after bec
hath long time
had
vs
at commaund, and ruled
vs
at
his
becke,then
when
at
the
firíi
we
fellinto
this
cruell flauery.
Thirdly, the longer
that
finne
bath dominion oucr
vs
the:
§5'ea
4
more
it increafeth in
flrength,and the
more hardly
it
is
fub-
irru-
dued:
for
it
is
the.nature
of
finne,as
foone
as
it
is
entertained
aisci.
to
make way
&
roorne for
more,and thofe
worfe
then
it.fclfe,
gime
incr
{a°'
cth.
as
:wee
may
fee
in the
example
of
Dauid,
for when
hee was
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