lVilfnll ImpenitenCJ otherwife chufed ; but thou wouldfi not have done fo. Thus thou excufeil thy felf for thine original fin too ·; ·And therefore thou: cartfi not be humbled, as long as thou pleadfl: thus; the trutH is,thou didfi willingly,fin as well as Adam. God made mtur, upright, but they have , fought out many inventions. Ecdcf. ·7· 2·9. He - 1peakethof A dams bei_ng upright ; God made A damupright' : he does not Jay, but man hath . 1 Nore. found out many inventions, as though i~ were , his fault alone that was created upright. ~o, God~made man up_right~/ but they., mark, he caf\:s the blame upon every man as well as A - 1 8am. But --they have fought ·out many inven- -~ · tions. Thus we·mufi be humbled for our origi– nal corruption:but thou canft not be humbled as · long ~s thou plead.fr on this manner:no,thou ex– cufeil thy felf, and therefore thou were never \ yet humbled: . Nay Thirdly, thou excufefl: thy-fdffor eve.. 31ixcufery fin, thou makefl: all thy fins to be nothing > but infirmities,as · ough PaNh cafe were thine : L. the g'ood w)lich ould do, that do I not, and .the evill which I would not do, that do 1. I ) . . . , would "be godlier than I am, but I ,cannot: , · .And therefore thou makeO: all thy fins.to be ·infirmities. , What is a fin of infirmity Sia of in-but a fin the will protetleth ,againfi ? thou Jirmiry. ' faieft that thy will protefieth againfi: every of thy fins , thou would£1: leave them, but thou canfi not. See then how far thou art from found · Humiliation : thy prefumptu– ou .fius ·areall nothing witlt thee, thy fiub.. .. bornne~ ·nothing , and thy wilfulnelfe no– .thing _; / ;
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