The soulereffiluall calling toChrtff. 379 nourïfh the foule , and yet have an unfaithfull foule,and goe downe tohell. Thirdly,all thyduties,thottgh theywere never foglorious in the eye ofanother, and never fo greatin thine owne apprehenfìon, yet theyare all tooweake toworke this grace of faith in thy foule : Luk. ¡ 3.24. strive to enter in at theflrait gate, for many "hall feeke to enter in, and fhaanot be able: There are foure or five paffages or aggra- vations, to helpe on this point; hee doth not fay that idle and lazy people (hall not enter in, but thole that feeke and take painee, and thinke they are atgreat cat too, and not a fewofthem r.ei- ther: hut tre,ny ihall feeke, and he doth not fay they (hall not be able to run on in thewages of god lineffe, but they (hall not beable to enter into that gate it is beyondall their power and ability tomake them enter in : So that were a manable to attendwithnever fo much care,and hearewith never fo much reverence,and judgement, to re- forme with never filch converfation, and werea man able to doe much in the profetlion ofthe truth, yet hee might goe to hell, and never get faith, nor Chrifl : It is pof iible'to goe thus faire, and todoe all there fervices glorioufly in mans fights' and yet clevercormat Chriff, and fo perifn ever : If' ever man might have thought it to have dore it of himfelfe, then Pout might have done it, as Aiis 13.2. I an:verily a man, which ama ley, borne inTarfsr' a famous City in Cilicia, but brought up in this City, at the feet ofGarnariel, and inffru- ed`actordinL to theperfelrì manner of the Lawadert ,,
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