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iVilfull
Intpenitency.
but
wilt
thou
not be
made
clean?
Prefuppojitions
not
to he
mifta.~n.'
1
Pre{u,i
I
.Its
true
th~t
a
tvick!d
m~rl
cannot repent ?or be
-pofltion not
c~nverted
of
hzmfelf;but
th1s
cannot
only
dos
not
to
bemifta-
htnder him;
if
a
wicked mans
cannot only
di~
hi;t·
~n.
der him,
he mtght excufe
himfelf
before the
tri·
Licetilli~
bunal efChr.ifl;LorJ,
thou
k..,non
1
tft
I
did
my
bejl,
quis non
I
would have been ruled
by
thy word,but
1
could
l'offit
grati-
not :
I
would
have been
humbled'
and
reformed
-~tTn_
Adipifci
better than I wa'i,
but
I
could
not.
If a wicked
qut npro-
mans
cannot
did hinder
him ,
he
might
excufe
lJ_:turta
himfelf
thus.
But
al ::.g,
he
is
not
able to fay
thus
"eo, 11.men
·
h
·
L d
ld
h
r.
q
11
Gd
in hoc
W1t
out
ftremptory
ly~ng.
or.
,I
cou
not
c
u1e
vel illud
but do wtckedly;
,I
acted mofi wretchedly, but
I
-,ecc
atum
.
could
n~t
otherwife chufe :·though it was not in
J~batu~
ex
thy
power not to be born in original fin · yet
~r~~t:::ero
who
neceffi~ated
thee to commit fuch grofs
,ontingit,
~
actual.fins?
1n
Prov.
I.
29.
they h.ated
/znoWledg_e,
itnde
&
they
d~d
not
chu[e ,the
way
of the Lord._
They dtd
~erito
fibi
not ufe any
liberty
of
wilt
to chufe that
w
hieh
~n
culpam
was
good: What? 'was·it becaufe they
could not?
:;_'putatur.
no;
for
albeit
they could not,
yet
that was not
qt·;;~·
I•
the caufe. -
~o,they
would none
.of
my counfels,
.Art.
3
.refp.
they
defP.ifed all my reproof,
v.
3
o.Mark, the rea–
ad
Arg.
fon why they did not chufe , was not becaufe
· ~ertium·
t~ey
could not
choofe
'
but becaufe they
would
not.
2Prc:fup.
Itstrue God. cloth not
give
them
power
to
·
believe
,
and to be
re~ewed;
but
can they
fay,
thoughiwouldferioujl_y ,God would
not?were
they
able to fay
thus,though
I
de
fired
it
heartilJ,
God
would
not give me grace ,
the!\
they
had fo
·
colofW
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