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the groffefl ielf-murder.
17
.'.T-
He firfl:
Ground
is
thi~·,
which is
obferved
by our
learnedDivines
at
~he
Synod atDert,
namely, .
.
.
.
· ·~
,
Every
.
ma;g. c
~n~
do more .. g
iloa
t
h~tn
he does
,
4_r~
3.
(11
and foun more
ev~l
th111n
he
does
,
though I con...
4·
'"
rtf:~:
fe~fe
not in a
graci?,~s ~anner.
I.f I
can
prove/
0
fi~:
erro
~
th1s
to be true,
tLwtll
necelf'ardy follow that
·
the reafon
why
a
wiCked
man does not
return
,
.is
not
flect~H{e
he
tannot,
butonely
b~caufe ~e
Wil
.not.
.
I
.
-
:Arguments to
pro~e
it.
.
·
!.
Confi~er,
if
a "'!an
c~n
.do
mDre
~ban.
he,
1
conft1J..
·
tloth,.
noth1ng
can
htnd~r ~tm
from do1ng .
ETcry
·more than he does but
h1s
will
'
when
the
fire
ma• can
can
burn.
more , ·
it
doth burn more , becaufe
do more
it
bath no
will
to come
b~tween
the
power
of~
00
: t~an
lntrning
·and the
Afl
of
b~rnitJg
to fufpend
it.
c ot • ·
The fire .is a natural agent , and. therefore
·burns as
much
as it can : but a man is a
vo/un-–
t~try
agent.,and
therefore when he
can
do a thing
and does not, ·"tis becaufe- his
will
comes be–
.tween to fufpend it:
So
that Jbe reafon is
t~i.s
,
he -rrill not.
Pil~tte,he
had
power ~ tocrucifie
Chrift,
and
power
not to -dp
it,
John
19.
1
o.
he had power
not
to do
it ;
why then
does
he
cruci
fie
him
?
not becaufe he hatl
no
ppwer
td
do otherwife .; he· confeffes
hirnfelf
he
had
power to do otherwife; but-he
crHcified.
Chriff
·becaufe
he
he
would do fo.
When a man bath
ppwer to do a
thing ,
or
not
uo
do
a
thing· ~
Its
.·
\
.