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Ofhardneffeofheart.
tión
they
may
take comfort thereby,affuring
themfelues
that
they
(hall
againe bee reflored
vnto their
former
elate,
for
Rom.ti.19.
the
girt and
calling
of
God
are
without
repentance,
and
thofe
1olin
t;
t.
whom
he
bath
once Awed,
he loiaeth
vnto the
end.
An
example
hereofwe
haue in
Dauid,
who being troubled
and
full
ofan_
guifh
in his
fpirit,
his foule
refuting
all
comfort,and
being
fo
a(loni(hed
that
he
could
not
fpeake,
yet
hee confidered
the
Pfal.77..
;.4.
daies
ofold,
and the
yeers
of
ancient
time,
hee
called
to
re-
membrance
his
former
fongs in
the night,occafioned by
the
great
benefits which the
Lord
had
bellowed
vpon him,
and
to
knowing that
the
Lord
was
vnchangeable in
his mercy
and
goodneffe,
he
releeued his
poore
foule, which
was ready
to
faint under
the
heauie
waight
of
prefent
of
li6lions. And
thus
alto
lob
being
brought
through
the
violence
of
thofe
heauie
croffes
which the
Lord
laied vpon him, euen
to the
brinke ofdefperation,
fo
that
he (pared
not
to
vtter
in
the
bitterneffe
ofhis
foula, fearefull curfes and
moll impatient
ípeeches
comming
neere
vnto
blafphemie,
oftentimes com-
forteth
himfelfe
by
calling
to
minde
his
former
integritie
and righteoutheffe
:
whole
example
if
the
poore humbled
foules will follow,
they
may raife themfelues
with true com-
fort,when
they
are funcke
downe vnder their
heauie
burthen
ofprefent
corruptions.
,.......
CHAP.
X
LI.
How
the :wake
Chriftian
may
bee
a
f
fared that
his repentance
is
true
and
vnfained.
§.Seít?.I
'
Nd
fo
much for anfwering
Satans
tentations,
el
the
fgnesef'
.t>
?:drawne from hardneffe
of
heart,
whereby
he
la-
true
repen-
1:
bot'reth
to
perfwade
poore humbled
(inners
tance,
and
fi>
,
e
`'
that
they
are
vtterly deflitute
of
repentance
:
but
of
__
-
..
ifhee
fade
of
his
purpofe,
then
hee
will inde-
degrees
tberof..
uour
to
make
them
beleeue,
that though
they
haue
fome
(hew
ofrepentance,
yet
it
is
not
fuch
as
God
requireth
:
for
either
hee
will
affirme
that it
is
hypocritical) and
diffembled,
rather
for
feare
of
puni(hment
thezt
for hatred
of
finne
or
true