~he grofeft Self-murder. . 9 . art able to fhift for·Heaven afterwards; tu{h, an ~.,,,.,,.,pp] youth may make a good oldm.lln,and a young Saint an old Devil. Hence it is that . the Whoremafter be can plead , did no.t Da-r,id c~mmit adultery too? as though he ,could get up again as well as he ; the drunkard , was not ,· N ()ab drunk. ? as though he ·were able to re~ . pent·as well as he. TheThief on the Crofs, did tuk. 2 ; , not he repent at /aft ga[pe ? as though he could 4o, · fhift as well. at lafl; fo they think they can . leave off their fins for .a need; and therefqre ·· the reafon why they do not, is only becaufe' they willnfJt. He that thinks he bath ahundred Poundof his own inhis purfe , and yet wiHnot give a poor' body a half-penny, what 1 s the reafon he will not open his purfe-togive? becaufe he cannot? No, he thinks h~ bath it and can ; but ·he will not; fo the r~foo why thou art not reformed ' is, thou .wilt not. ; 1 2. pemonftration. Becaufe thou dofi not fo 2Demon. much as tr;y whether. thou canfr or no. . There- 2 .T~ey fore taou dofi not fl:ick at acannot h11t a TJPill-not. w•Jl not When a Mafier bid~ his fervan~ . c~rry . a fack .oftry· Corn to the Mill ; I cannot fayes he~; but (:an- · no~yeu try, fayes his Mafier, ~annot you ·go ~ about it? no, h~ wilrnot try; why then he is wilfull; if his Mafier fhould fee :him fweating and firiving to.carry it,it were fomething, theQ he would Jay he, fiuck at a cannot; but when he wilf not he at the pains to try , he fiicks at awill--:not. So thou frick!l: at a will not, thou do£1: not every day 1·n arenam defcend•ere' f~·eat at.gooq ~uties, thou dofl: not Hu~y agd labour · C 3 every \
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