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~he
grofeft Self-murder.
.
9
.
art able to
fhift
for·Heaven afterwards; tu{h, an
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youth
may
make
a
good
old
m.lln,and
a
young
Saint an old
Devil.
Hence it is that .
the
Whoremafter
be
can
plead , did no.t
Da-r,id
c~mmit
adultery too? as though he ,could get
up again as well as
he ;
the
drunkard , was not
,·
N ()ab
drunk. ?
as though
he ·were able
to
re~
.
pent·as well
as
he.
The
Thief
on the
Crofs,
did
tuk.
2 ; ,
not he
repent
at
/aft ga[pe
?
as though he could
4o,
·
fhift as well. at lafl; fo
they think they
can .
leave
off
their
fins
for .
a
need;
and therefqre ··
the reafon
why
they do not, is
only
becaufe'
they
willnfJt.
He that
thinks
he
bath a
hundred
Pound
of
his
own
in
his purfe , and yet wiH
not
give a
poor' body
a
half-penny, what
1
s
the
reafon
he
will not open his purfe-togive?
becaufe he cannot? No, he thinks
h~
bath
it
and can ; but ·he will not; fo
the
r~foo
why
thou art not
reformed '
is, thou .
wilt
not.
;
1
2.
pemonftration. Becaufe
thou dofi not
fo
2Demon.
much as
tr;y
whether.
thou canfr or no. . There-
2
.T~ey
fore taou dofi not fl:ick at a
cannot
h11t
a TJPill-not.
w•Jl
not
When a Mafier
bid~
his
fervan~
.
c~rry .
a
fack
.oftry·
Corn to the Mill ; I cannot fayes
he~;
but (:an- ·
no~
yeu try, fayes his Mafier,
~annot
you ·go
~
about
it?
no,
h~
wilrnot try;
why then
he
is
wilfull; if his Mafier fhould fee :him fweating
and firiving to.carry
it,
it
were fomething, theQ
he would Jay he, fiuck
at a
cannot;
but when
he
wilf
not
he at the pains to
try
,
he fiicks at
a
will--:not.
So
thou frick!l: at a will not, thou
do£1: not every day
1·n
arenam
defcend•ere'
f~·eat
at.gooq
~uties,
thou dofl: not
Hu~y
agd labour ·
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3
every
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