wilfuil rmpeniteney felves, your ruin is wiltull if yee yeild not, and will not give way.. Thirdly, Sense of the meanes are yet eaf er, for fume of the meanes of grace are better for you even inyour worlgt y and carnall refp:Eis. You'l fay, that's the eafei of all for a man to favour himfelfe,and his flesh. As for exam- ple, the reforming ofyour gaming, dicing, carding in your Innes,your drunkenneffe and bezeling o're the pot, your pride and your geygawes, and the like; would not this favour your purses and be more agreeable to your very carnali refpel, ? And therefore you that doe not re- forme theft', you p!uclse wi:fell perdition on your heads. Fourthly, Come of the meanes of grace, its harder to omit them then to ufe them. Many of you meet with more hard- (hips in the omiilion then you could light upon in the pra&iceof them I need not inflance, the particulars are very familiar. Fifthly, Same of the meanes ofgrace, be they hard, yet they are but hard;they arenot impofible for you to u fe ; They will aske no more then a little labour and diligence, and therefore omitted only by reafon of will.nyts. 1 hope by this time you fee clearely the truth of this ground.Ifyee will not fit yourfelves to u fee the meanes of grace and falvation, when ye die , you muff needs lay the blame on your wills ; And why will yee fo ? Why willyee die,0 bouf of I frael ? But notwithilanding the evidence of this truth ; The wife dome oftheflesh which is enmity again ft God; fills carnal! minds with many objettians againllit; from all which I (hall endeavour to vindicate it,by anfwering them all in order. t Objea. 2 Objea. 3 Objett 11-le fief Obje&ion is drawne from thofe Scriptures which fay that they cannot. From their own willingneffe, they would, but they cannot. Is from their own desires, they delire to doe it, but they are not able. Is
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