34 Prov.zt,zç. 5.Argu. z Kings t z. Luke 4..13. Wilfull Impenitency then doll thou not nowput thy felfe forth ?Thou cant, but Oh, it kils thee to thinkenow of taking pains after fuch things. It kils thee now to go to thy beads, and lie at weepingcroffe, and be fo holy, forfooth. Oh, it kills thee now to take paines here abouts; like the fluggard, the defire of the fluggard kills him, for his hands refute to labour. Hee delires to have a crop, but it kills him to go to the Now ; he delires to have his markets, but it kills him to go thither. So thou delìreff to go to Heaven, but it kills thee to take paines; Mortification, Selfe -De- nyall, Repentance, Humiliation, Examination ofCon- fcience, Reformation of Life ; Oh,th efe kill thee to think of them. A ligne much is in thee, but it kills thee to put it forth. Fiftly, A ligne it is in thee, becaufe thou canif do a hundred times more then when thou art pleated; like a wil- full lazy fervant, you could do it better if you were plea fed, fayes his Mailer. So long as thou art pleafed, thou canif be more religious, a ligne it is in thee. Rehoboam hisfirif years were religious; Peter (Martyr obferves, he was well pleafed that fame while he taw it was for the efiablifhing of his kingdome. And the Levites came to him from f eroboam, fo long he was pleafed, and then he was religious, but afterwards not; and why not af- terwards too ? It's a ligne it was in him, but he wasnot well pleafed; So 1oaJh did right in the fight ofLord all the duke of 7ehoiada. ; -Why ? then he was well pleated with Religion, for it helpt him to root out Athaliahs fatti- on ; 7ehoiada had been the Saviour of his life, the help of him to the Kingdome,the Lord Proteaor of his Non- age, the eflablifher of his Scepter. All this while Religion did pleAt, him, but afterwards he would not do right in the fight of the Lord. Why ? be- caufe other things now pleafed him better; but it's a ligne it was in him. They on the rock, they could heare, and profelfe as long ag the goffiell did pleafe them; they heard itwith joy that pleafed them welt. Yee
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