421 / 772
lotisses
to perfivade
vi
to
haien'our
repextance.
393
by
carting
it
offfpeedily,for when
by
this continual!
additi-
on
our
finnes are
Browne
to
an
vnfupportable
waight,
they
will fooner
preffe vs
downe then
we
(hall
call
them
off.
Fourthly,
the
longer
wee
liue'in
(inne
the more
vnplea=
fant
will vertue and
godlineflè be vnto
vs
;
and
the
more we
are
delighted
in
the
fulfilling
the lulls
of
the
flesh,
the
more
bitter it
will bee to
mortifie
them,
and
to imbrace
any
flril
courfe
of
fanaification,feeing
thefe are
contrary
the one
to the other
;
he
that
hath long continued in
darkneffe
can-
not
indure
the
light
of
the
furie;
he
that. neuer
tailed
any
thing but
fweet and
pleafant
meats,
cannotabide
to
feed
vp-
on
thofe
which
are
lower and
bitter
;
hee
that
was
borne
and
bred
in
hot
countries,is
not
able to
brooke
thofe
which are
cold
;
and
fo
thole who
haue
accuflomed themfelues
to
finne
will hardly
be
euer
brought
to imbrace vertue
and
godlines,
thefe being
as
contrarie
one
to
another,
as
light
and
darke-
neffe,fweete
and fower,hot and cold,
efpecially
confidering
that
finne is
as
delightfull
to
the
tafle
of
a
naturali man,
as
drinke when
he
is
extreamely
thirfly,or meat
when
he
is
rea-
dieto
-pine
for
hunger.
Fiftlie,
the
longer
we liue in our
finsand
deferre
our
con-
§.Seê.
'.
uerfion
veto Göd,the
more
are
our vnderftandings darke-
S
Becai
fe
ned, our
veils
peruerted,
our
affe
dons
more corrupted, our
the
longere
harts hardned,
and our confciences
feared,
and
all
thè
p
owers
delay,the
ort`
and
faculties
of
our bodies and
foules are
more and more
bled.
xearecifa-
.
difabled; for
as
the
longer
that
fickneffe
hath continued,the
more
it
weakneth
the
body
and
maketh it
vnfit
for
any
work
or a&ion,fo
the longer
fin,which
is
the
ficknelfe
of
the foule,
hath
leafed
on
vs,
the more
vnable weea're
to (hake
it
off,
and
the
weaker
it
maketh
`vs
to
performe
any-good
a
&ions.
When
men
at
firfl
fall
into
vnufuall finnçs, their.confciences
checke
them,
and they
feire'
left
the
lord
will poure
vpon
them
his
heauie
judgements,
but
when they
haue
commit
ted
the famefinnes
againe and againe; and
yet
are
not
pu-
mlhed,then
like
themes
,
AN
'ho hauing
efcaped
after
one
rob
-
berie
committed,
are
readie
to
commit
another;
fo
they ha-
lting
not
tailed
of
Gods
iudgennents
threat ed, thinke.-that
they
(hall
newt
be
inflited
ois
them,
and
therefore.
are reaà
diet