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Wilful
1111pe~titeucy
ana
wafpi}h, andPaffionate,
·and
Worldly:
like
the
weeds, the more rhey are
ph1ckt
up the
more
they
do grow; orJike the earth, the more ·it
is wa!hed, the dirtier
it
proves :
fo the
more
n1eans ye have to be enabled to good, the
wit- ·
fuiter
ye
are.
.
~
.
t
0
6.
Demonfiratton. Becaufe
thy cannot
u
a
Th~;on.
voluntary
·cannot
;
thou haft
wilfully .
brought
cannot
is
·the
mofl:
part of thy cannot upon
thee.
I
can–
voluntary
not 'give
to
the poor fayefl: thou;
yea,
~ut
thou
,A Moral ·
hadH:(
it
once ,
a_nd
thou
h~fi
wilfully
fpent
impoten-
it ;
thou
hadft
Lands an& Means ,
and
com–
cy.
~mings
in , hut
thou
hafr
fp~nt
it
·at
the
Ale·
.
,,
(
.
houfe ;
thou
haft
confumed
it on
t4~ game~
·
houfe.
Thus thy
cannot,
i~
a vol_u.Qtary cau:–
not;
C
a~tfa
cau[te eft caufa
cttH[ati :
thy
will'
was
the
caufe
of
thy
cilnnot,.
and therefore
thy
will
is
the .caufe of
rhy
not
giving to the
poor.
I
cannot
·read, fayes one, and
n<i mar–
vail
if
I
be ignorant : but .thy Parents
woul~
,have
fet
thee to School,,
and
thou
\Youl~~
be a ,trewant, therefore thou art
willingly
ig–
nvr~tnt
.
.
I
cannot remember
a
Sermon fa
yes
a...
.nother, no
wonder
though
I ·
repeat it
.not
in
_my
Family); hut
forg~t
it
as
,J,
do : but thou
haft
willingly
·ram"d
it
with
matters
of the
World, or haft weakned
it
with
qrinking; .
and therefore thou art wilfully forgetful, -&c..
I
The unprofitable fervant was curH that had
.,
hiid
up
his
pound
fafe
in
a
Napkjn :
hee
~u~e
19·
a·d
1
.2o.
·
1
not leffen
it,
nor imbezel
it ,
but on
y
,(:hrlfoft".
laid
it
up,
and ·
yet he was curfed becaufe
he did not
d'JwiS~ .
wS'ocrcJI£1'VA7',
fay5s
Chryfeft~
he was curfed , becaufe he
did
not
double hiJ
-
,
. "·
pound; .