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Motaues
topeffwade
vs
to
haft
en
our
repentance.
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
and
delight they
cannot commit
thofe
f
nnes, which in former times they would haué
trembled
to
haue
entertained into
their
reacts
thoughts.
,.Sea.6.
Sixtly,the
longer
wee
dcferre
our
repentance,
the
more
6. ncearfe
the
vneffc6fuall
will
the
ineanes bee
of
our
conuerfion
;
for
the
wages
grow
word
of
God
will
either
(often our
hearts
like waxe,
tsr
vnef
eCtuall
by
harden them
like
clay,eith.er
it will:bethe
fauour
oflife vnto
delates.
life,
or the
fau-our
of
death
to
our. deeper
condemnation,
as
is
i.Cor.z.i6.
2.Cor.2..16.
¡fit
oncegoe
out
of
Gods
mouth,
it
fhall not
returne
;vuto
íhim
voide,
but
it
!hall
accon9plifb
that
which he
will,
and
it
fhall
proper
in
the
thins
rrhereto
he
fendeth
it,(vvhetherit be
for
the
conuerfion
or hardening
ofthofe
who heare it)
as
it
is
Efa.55.
ir.
Efa.s
x.11.
We
know.
if
a falue
be applied
veto awound,ei-
ther
it
healeth
it,or
els
the
fore
ouerc6ming the
vertue
there-
of
doth
more
fefler
and ranckle, and
fo
this fpiritnall falue
being
applied
vnto
our
foules
wounded
with(nne,
doth ei-
ther
cure
them, or
elfe
becomming vneffeduall,
they waxe
worfe
and vvorfe.When men fleepe, and
are
fuddenly
wake-
ned with
force
firange and
vnufuall
found, they prefentl
e
Bart
vp-
and.are amafed,
but
after
a
long
time they
haue
been
acquainted
withthe
noife,
they
can fleepe fecurelie
and
not
be
much.
difquieted
;
fo when
men fleeping
in
carnall fecuri-
tie
are
awaked
with the
rhreatnings
ofthe
lawpreached
vn-
to them,which
like
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
haue
been
many times
awakned,
at
WI this feare-
full
found
nothing
rnooues
nor
difquiets
thcm,neither
will
anything
waken them out
of
this,
fpirituall
lethargie,
but
the
voice
of
the
Archangell commanding them
to
arife
and
to
corne
vnto iudgetnent.
§Seel
7
Seuenthly,if
\;
ce
deferre our
conuerfionvntil
our old
age,
7. necattfe
old
it
will then be more hard
and difficult
then in the the
time
of
agcis
more
va-
youth
,becaufe
old
men are
more indocible
& vnfit
to
learne
frt
forrcpen-
then
they
tiereintheir
outhfull,daies
and
therefore
who_
;t
i,ce,lliea
y
ÿ
r
yurttb.
.foctier