' ' Wilfu_!,l .Impenite11ty thenhe humbles his 1oul for his former wilnots nay for his too too manywill nots for thepre~ fent.But thou canfl: never behumbled while thou livefi,if tqou plead~ftthus a cannot,becaufe thou layefi the' blam~ up~nGod. . .· · ·. NO\Y Sixth!y,. .thou. . canfi;not behumbled be.. caufe thou dolt not only lay the· blame up– .on God for thy fins, ·hut thou findeft fault with ,all Gods proceedings ; it is as if thou fhouldeft ,fay, why does hebid me Repent, when he-. knowe.si cannQt ?' whydoes he yet complain ? Romans 9· I 9· lie knowes I cannot ·; why does he woo .me to do -that which I cannot ? or pro– mifeme blefiings ifi do, when he knowes that .I cannot? why dees he help me to moreand ' ntore knowledge_ ? he does but -hurt me with knowledge , and make my firis to be worfe , which I cat:lnot forfake. My fins are now againfi knowledge , and Mirrifiers ,tell me that is' worfe, ;~ this is all that I get by your preafh– ing ; nay thou finde~ fault with all Gods Correction ·: why does he punifu me for not doing·of 4 that which-I cannot ? thus thou art fa~ from b~ing · humbled ~: the··· truth is, thou n1tghteH: get a great deal by knowlege ,. . ~y exho~tation , ~and reproofs , and ·corred:ions_, but thou wilE ·not : is it not ~afier to leave a £in when thou ..knowefl: it, than when thou arc ighorant of it ?' to be mo've4 when thou art exhorted, than when· thou art not admo· nillied at all ?· to forfake a finful courfe when once God .bath irnbittered it t9 thy flefb by / corrections, than when it kas fweet ? is it. nor eafier to give over Drunk.e,nneffe, when thyex... · .cefie
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