· · -~ the gro.fefl ·self-murder. S7 fets up atemple, you can go confiantly to it, ,_ __ whycannot you go confiantly to.mine ~The re- ' proof was yr.ryequal. If thou ·wdt not fet upon the meanp, thou arcmoO: equally condemned. I cannot .Preach fo often as· fome do, nor be fo · muchx-efident as fo·me are ; No ? Why wilt thog not give ·overone ofthy two livings then? Thou art able to do that ; if thou'lt not Jet upon the means, thy condemnation is equ11l. Thus I have confirmed this firO: Point, namely, that the wic- ~edmayufe thofe means ~htlt the Lord command1 them as means. ·· · In the ·fecortd place I {hewed that this being thus, thy condemnationmHft be wilful ifthou"Wilt not ufe all t.he means. ·- · . .Arguments to prove it, · Firfl:, The Lordwill not ~elp thltt man bya I .Argu. miracle to go that h~r.th /eggs ~o go and will not; Thou fayeft thou·would"ft fatn go to Heaven ; tell . me what leggs bath God .given thee? What means hatl1 he lent thee ? If thou wilt not ufe them, the Lord will never help thee without. Had· the Jfraelites had any means to have gotten over ·Jordan, as Ships or Barks-_, Boats, or Bridges , or Fords, and they would not, he. would never have helpt them over -witho~tt. You know the Lord parted. the -waters, fofo. 3. 1 3. but if they had refufed the means, he would not have kept them on this manner without : if they had food fufficient in the Wildernefs to eat, ·and they would .not, bee would not have rAined food down upon ·them ; .• . · F 3 had
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