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Wilfullimpenitency
;Doef.
The reafon "WhJ the
WickJd
do
nGt
repent notcome
o11t
of
th~ir
jins,is
not
becaufe tkey
cannct,(though
they
cAnnot
)hut becaufe' they
wrJl
tJot.
·
·
A~.s,
31
•
Peter
faith
t(\)
Ananias,Why
hath
Satan filled ..
·
~hy
heArt
to
lie·
to
the
holy
G
hoft
,t~
J(eep
bac~part
()f
the
priqe
of the
Lan.d
?was zt:?Zot,
once
!n
thy
·
-
power?
Before thou dtdfl
prom~fe
· twas tn
t~y
· power
wheth~r
thou
rr?ouldft
promt~e
or
110· , ..
d1d
any
force
thee to
promife?
and when thou hadfi
prcomifett~did
any
(quee:{,e
the
ly
out
of
thy
tottg_ue·
that
thou fuouldefr tell
a
lie
tO:
theHolyGhtJft?did
any
drag
thy finger to the
m()ny
and force·thee ·
to handle it?no,thou wouldfl: lie,and thou woul-
deil:
finger
it.
.
.
7
Demonfirations
to
prove this. . .,.
·
I.
The wifked think they .have
power,
·and
!
';::n.
yet
1
they
will
,
not do'
according.
to .
their
·.wicked
thought.s.
What s the reafon they prefume ·
ta .
think
rheyrepent -another
time, but becaufe
they
think
have
pow-
they have
power?
what's
the reafon
they
er to re-
hope to repent on
their
death beds, but becaufe ·
penr.
they
think
they have power? or
at
leafr that
Prov. 6.
10
they
are able to beg power
of
C~rift
Jefu.r._
.All the
-Now·
1
hy
their
own thoughts
God_wiH
€onvince
freewill-
them, · that they do
not
give·over their fins, ;
~~!~'~h
h.eca.u1e
they
will,rtot;
~ike
the fluggard: ,
y~t
a
thefdo
no;
l~ttle
fJ1.ore fleep!
yet
a
httle
more
flumber'
yet a
repent',
hltt~le
more foldtng;
of
the
h~tnds
to[leep
;
the flug–
beca-uf~
gard,.
h~ th~nks
he can. rife time enough _,
a~d
th? wzll
d:o
~ll
hts bufine[s e,re
the
night,
though
he he
nhot~
0
"t
of ,a
httle
longer·,
and therefore does he prefume
t
ezr own
1.
h'}
h
·
niou.th
witf-0
te a
w
1
e
longer ·; ·
So .
thou art lot , to
G1d
con.
co.m-e ·out
of
thy fins
yet,
'time
enough'
yet
de~
them.
th1nkefi thou , thou haft
fetret
thoughts
thou
,
art ·
•