8 Wilfull Impenitency rentantes ad Trojam peeve- ?lire Grad. Theo, 3 Demon. They ref ufe the help which god offers. go about it ? no, he will not try ; why then he is wilful!. If his mafter`fhould fee him fweating and ftriving to car- ry it, it were fomething; then he would fay, he Ruck at a cannot ; but when he will not be at the pains to try, he flicks at a will not. So thou ftickft at a will not, thou doff not every day in arenam defcendere , fweat at good duties; thou dolt not ftudy and labour every day how to Ihun all temptations, and prevent all thy inns ; thou doll not goe about the cleanfing of thy Family, the purging of thy Houle; thou wilt not go about it, and therefore the reafon is,becaufe thou wilt not. Nay,its all one whether thou haft power, yea or no. To what end fhould God give theepower?for thou wilt not ufe it Nay, howdoff thou know, but when thou goeft about it,thou mayeft meet with fome power ? but thou wilt not try. Cut down thy drunken ligne, and try : never let drinking and (willingbe in thy houle, and try ; fer up confiant holy conferences, and try ; frequent prayer in thy Clo- fet, and try, &c. But I have tryed againe and againe, and yet it will not do; every day try though: Si crebro jacias, aleas aliud jeceris ; though thou haft thrown theDye a hundred times, yet next time ( may be) thou fhalt throw a good tail ; But thou wilt not try. I would have healed Babel,but the would not be healed. The fieldof the flothfull is all grown over with Thorns,and Nettleshad covered all the face thereof, and the gone -wall thereof was broken down,Prov.a4.3r. What's the reafon he bath not a good crop ? becaufe the ground would not beare it ? no, how does he know ? he will not try, he will not plow it, and harrow it, and weed it, and manure it, and low it; he will not try : Therefore 'tis becaufe he will not. 3. Demonftration. God offers thee many good motions of power I will help thee, and I will finable thee ; and thou wilt not be helped. God Gaffs in thefe good motions, and thou calls them out. Standye in the ways, andfee, ask¿ for the old paths, and walke therein, and ye (hall finde reft
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