2 2· Wilfnllimpenitency .· \ could not; could not ye comfort Chrifts · d~~tr members as well as moc/z.them ~ conldfl: thou not take them into thi.ne houfe as well as carnal · acqullintance? its worthy obfervation to con– fider, that generally Gods thrcatnings do not run againO: Cannots,nor his judgements againfi Can– nots, but againft mens particula.r fins, that they might have a·voided; for though mens finfull confciences do .nece.ffarily incline men to fin, yet not unto this fin, nor thatfin; non determin~tt ?Jecej[ario ad hoc vtl illud malum , hie&·nunc , fay our Britan Divines atrihe Synod. Sinfull concupifence does not neceffarily determine men upon ·thefe and thefe fins, with the parti– cular circumflances which they live in' as thi~ rapine, this lye, &c. thus ye fee thiswill make a fure .ground of ou~ podrinesif fo be we can. , I prove tt. -.. · - Every mancan do more good than he does, ~en~ . avoid more euil than he does. This is a mofr certain and infallible truth,and needs no confirmation , but I will prove it notwithil:anding.. · 1 .A.rgu. Firft becaufe God doth cempla'i1Z ~tgainft the wickJdfor the .voluntary doJ.ng ?Zo more f£ood than , they do; whattfo much pre!tt]:ung and no ntore good? fo many means and no more fruit , &c r· fo God complains ,againft J[raez, neverthelef[e they dep~rted not from the fins of Itroboam ,&·c. . "and r_here remained thegrovesalfo in Sapiaria , 2 Kzngs I 3. 6. the grove alfo;what not fo mucb as the grove cut down? and ye muft have the fins ·of Ier~boam ; that were enoug~ fiubbor– nelfe, ~ } .. : .. ·-
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