74 Vfe 3. 3 Vfe. Engage to hu- miliation. Wilful Impenitency tell is lye, not fetting about It to due it ; God give ma grace, repentance is his gift, and if he doe not give it, I cannot repent,' would but I cannot,if he doe not give it: the Cpeech is very good and becomes a godly foule that makes confcience of the meanes to fay it, but this is thy thuf ling to lay it at Goas doore,as though is Duck there; God tels thee plainly it does not Dicke at bim,he would have all to cony unto repentance, 2. Pet.3 g, but thou wilt Inot come; and this is the deceit of thy heart to fhu$le it from thee. In the third place , is it fo, that the reafon why thou doll not amend, is not becaufe thou canfl not, but onely becaufe thou wilt not Ob then my Brethren learnt to be humbled. This points calls forgroat humiliation. FirD, here lies efpecially the pride of the heart, not in men: cannot:,but their will nots; when a foule does what - foever it can, reformes as much as it can , odes at many meanes as it can,and as often as it can, this is not a proud heart : but a proud heart is that efpecially which flickeD at a will not. Ifye will not heare, my foule (ball weepe fn floret places for your pride, ver. t 3. t 7.marke,for your pride, if you mill not, he does not fay if you cannot, my foule (hall weepe for your pride, if ye Dicke at a cannot, but if yee Dick at a will not; doe not think,e this point does lift up mens wills, no, this point does as much beat at the hum, tiling of the will,as any point under heaven;for here lies all the pride of the will , and therefore here ye muff be humbled. Secondly,here lies efpecially the bardning of the heart: when a man flickesat a cannot, he does not more and moreharden his heart,but onely Dickes at the fame harde neffe he had. Beloved, thou deft then barden thy heart when thou wilt not ob y , andtherefore here's moll need of thy humbling, to be bumbled for thy mill -not: ; its laid of Pha-
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