the greatefl Self murder. 8r Grillers excufe their own felves but there is more manner, line in all their excuf .r;I pray thee have me excufed (ayes one. I have bought frveyoake of Oxen, and I pray thee have me excufed; (ayes the other, I have bought a purchife , I pray thee..have me excufed. Thefe though wretched ex- cufers and turned out from all mercy, yet they were fonmewhat more mannerly,but I cannot come,fayett thou; I have married a Wife, and i cannot come, Luke 14 20. this is a molt f.1wcy excufe, thou tellett Chriit in plaine termes, I cannot come, q.d. ye may even fave your labour to invite, for this is (port and long, as we fay', I cannot come. This I put in only by the by. I (hewed you fome of the deceits of the heart in plea ding thefe cannots. F`irit, How it lier unto God. Secondly, how it dallies with God. Thirdly, how hereby it puts off the word. And then I (hewed you the itrong reafon we have to be humbled under thefe will nuts. Fiat, becaufe here chiefly lie, the pride of the beart,not in wens Cannot!, but in their will -noes ; Jer. t 3.17. Secondly , here lies chiefly the bardning of the heart, Exod.9.34.3 5. Thirdly, here lies chiefly the fiu.',bornnelre of the heart, Dent.2 1.18. Fourthly , here lies chiefly the greatefi defpifong of the Commandements of God, Levit.29. t 5. Fifthly, now to goe on , here lies the reafon why Di- viner fay that the converfron of a foncierio a harder worke then the Creation of Heaven and .Earth ; for thusthey doe reafon.When God created Heaven andEarth,he had no thing to refill him ; as he had nothing to helpe him, (he made all of nothing) fo he had nothing to refill him. There was but one dcfculty in the creation of Heaven and Earth; but in the converfion of a limner there be two difficul- ties. Firíi, here is the font difficulty that was in creation, for N G.,d
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