thegrfJjJeft Self-murder. - ' .19 help to do that whidr you cannot ; and if you will not do t_hat which you can '. you do ·voluntarilJ hinder your own felves from doing that which you cannot; J:ofhua could not ftdnd before Ai,, nor hinder a dof€ Achan from taking the golden wedge; butwhe~ it was taken and knowri, he was able to-make· htm an example. Jofouah ·he-fafied and cryed unto God all day untill · night, /that theLord would mer,ifullyfave him and all Jfrael; Now hear that anfwer the Lord giveshim, Get thee up faith he, why lyefi thou fiere ? Jofh. 7· 10. 1/rael hath finned, go and execute Juftice, go, anddo th~tt fjrft, and then·I wi!fan[wer thee ~tbout .Ai; for if Iojhuah would not have done what he could, the Lord would never have helpt him to do that which ·he - co~!d n()t. So thou prayeft for mercy and grace,. oh that God -would convert thee and pardon thee; qet thee up fayes God, dofl: thou O:and _ praying for mercy, as long as fuch things and fuch , tnings are not reformed ? thou haft drunkennefs in thy houfe , go·and reform that; thou art in league with a fort of bafe·luil:s, go and reform them; if thou wilt not do that \vhich thou canfi ~ how canfi thoube fure God will help thee to do that-which thou canfi not ? no , t~O!J fiick~ft at a will ~ot, as longas thou ref#feft . to do that. ' . 3. Confider, if_ a man will not . elo thllt .WhichJ• C6njid• . he c11n, neither will ~e do that, whifh he cannr;t . if h~ could ; -the fervant that will not go five · I or fix mil-es ina ~ay which he ctt'n for his Mafier~ · · would he .. go a hundred miles for his £,......... "'~"' • if he co!l/4 ; ~o-u that c:an: reform ollt.. w~traly
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