The soles eft Iualdcaring toChrifi. 3e5 and the powerfull worke thereof, may marvel loufly fnub and wound finne; but infidelhtic will heale itagaine, and will reflone life to it againe. I compare reformation to the retreat ofanarmy, when one fide is weak; and the other fide is too firong, and they are not able tomake their parts good, then they make a retreat, and goe home againe to theirtrenches, and bee that wifely re. treats himfelfe, though he may Tole theday, yet he lofeth nôr a man, and the Commander faith, fuch a manwas wounded, and fuch a man was hurt a little, but wecameall well home ; they re- C treat into the trenches, and get more flrength, and then they levyout their forces againe. So it is with outward reformation, haply a man lives underapowerful' Minifler, under a good mailer, andina good family, and all there make fin re- treat; and lice dares not fweare, and hecannot walke in his wicked wayes,his mailer curbs him, all this while his linnes make a retreat ; but . there isnone ofthem gone, the lifeofnever a one ofthem is gone,fo long as hebath an unbeleeving heart : let the unbeleever enjoy never fuck means, and live in never fo good a family, yet he bath not one finne killed, they are onely retrea- ted, and fo unbeleefe nurfeth them, andmakes them grow out with greater violence. This I take tobe the reafon why many aman thatbath profeffed theGofpell, and bathhadmuch horror ofheart, and many good refolutions, and much careexpreffed outwardly after manyycers, his corruptions breake out againe and get ground, Aaa and
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