.. 14 Wilful 1111pe~titeucy anawafpi}h, andPaffionate, ·and Worldly: like the weeds, the more rhey are ph1ckt up the more they do grow; orJike the earth, the more ·it is wa!hed, the dirtier it proves : fo themore n1eans ye have to be enabled to good, thewit- · fuiteryeare. . ~ . t 0 6. Demonfiratton. Becaufe thy cannot u a Th~;on. voluntary ·cannot ; thou haft wilfully . brought cannot is ·the mofl: part of thy cannot upon thee. I can– voluntary not 'give to the poor fayefl: thou; yea, ~ut thou ,A Moral · hadH:( it once , a_nd thou h~fi wilfully fpent impotenit ; thou hadft Lands an& Means , and com– cy. ~mings in , hut thou hafr fp~nt it ·at the Ale· . ,, ( . houfe ; thou haft confumed it on t4~ game~ · houfe. Thus thy cannot, i~ a vol_u.Qtary cau:– not; Ca~tfa cau[te eft caufa cttH[ati : thy will' was the caufe of thy cilnnot,. and therefore thy will is the .caufe of rhy not giving to the poor. I cannot ·read, fayes one, and n<i mar– vail if I be ignorant : but .thy Parents woul~ ,have fet thee to School,, and thou \Youl~~ be a ,trewant, therefore thou art willingly ig– nvr~tnt. . I cannot remember a Sermon fayesa... .nother, no wonder though I ·repeat it.not in _my Family); hut forg~t it as ,J, do : but thou haft willingly ·ram"d it with matters of the World, or haft weakned it with qrinking; . and therefore thou art wilfully forgetful, -&c.. I The unprofitable fervant was curH that had ., hiid up his pound fafe in a Napkjn : hee ~u~e 19· a·d 1 .2o. · 1 not leffen it, nor imbezel it , but on y ,(:hrlfoft". laid it up, and ·yet he was curfed becaufe he did not d'JwiS~ . wS'ocrcJI£1'VA7', fay5s Chryfeft~ he was curfed , becaufe he did not double hiJ - , . "· pound; .
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