~he groffefl self-murder: . tionupon thy Apoftacy in A dam, if now tHou pleadefi: a eanriot. Lord', I cdnfeffe I was ' conceived iA fin 1 but now I cannot .) do withall ; I cannot . . do ot~erwife _ tho~gh I would never fo fatn. . I cannot .but ·drtnk now and the1.1 and be ~runk ; I cannot I l>ut rap out an Oathnow and t~en in myh,afie, (ff·c. I confefs I brought this cannot upon me itt the loyns of Adam ; but upon the fuppofall of tha_t, doefl ~ho? bid me give over n;ry fins? I cannot; thts ts not to ·be humbled; but to fall to exq:tfes. Its true; aCtual corrup– tion'which naturally flowes from ·original, re... quires · one and the felf . fame humiliation that . original does.But otherwife thou mufi be hum~ l>le .·with a new humiliatiQn for thine acrual tranfg~fiions, or, elfe thou art 'not humble~; but plea·d~D: excufes,. ·navid hurpb.les himfdf for boxh,with one humiliation for the one,Pfa. S 1. ~with another for the oth~r, "". 3. But ~s ·- \ ' ' long as thou pleadeft on this fafhion , thou ex· · cufdl: thy (elf for t~y attual ns, and never art 1 • humbled. ' . . . · ; .. . . ·:1 Nay fecondly thou excufefl: thy felf fot thy 2ExtHf~. original fin too. Lord, I .would be without fin; but I cannot, I would ifI could ;· lbelike then if it had been thy cafe as it was Adams , th~u ' . · would{l: not have eaten of the forbidden fruit. ) I And therefore it was his fault and not thine,' thou wouldil: not .have finned if tbou tooldeft .. have otherwife chufed. , And therefore thou excufeft thy felf for that too; for thori fayeft thou would.ft not have finned if thou hadft · · ~~~n as ~e ; ·~e ~~tie~ wb~~. ~e mighh.t haye~· " ~ ot erw1n.. ~ .. ; 'I ~- ,. f ,.
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