The sorties calling to Chriít. the heart, and the adulterer burnes and boiles in his lufts,and the covetous man cannot fleepe,and fo forth ; there are boifterons in a mans foule, thereforea man cannot but fee themplainly, and fo it carries the heart tooutward things; but this unbeicefeHides offfecretly fromGod, and from thepromife, and from the truths which are fpiri- wall, fo that a man cannot fee his finne; this is thecanfe of that fp: ech, /aim 16. Q. it is the caufe why our Saviour Chrift loth challenge that fin, where bee faith I mill fend the Comforter to the earth, and whenhe is come, he ibdiconvince the world ofßiine,becaufe theybel,eveei not onhim aMinifter may haply convince a man of his drunkenneffe, and the Magiftrat may convince him ofhis fwea- ring,but the Lord from heaven, by that almightie power ofhis, muff fet downe the heart, and con- vince itofthis finne,or elfe a mancannot fee that he beleeves not : n ty, leta mangoe from pole to pole, andaske all the drunkards, and all the vile rakefhames, and tell them thus, You areadrun- kard,a iwearer,and the like, they fay, I confeffe,it is true, it is my infirmitie, and I confeffe it; but tell them ofunbelee. fe andtheywill not acknow- ledge that,but this fine fpun wickedneffe, and this fpirituall wickednefTeof the foule, is a meere tur- ning off fromGod, and fo from Chrift, and the truth, and thepromife, and thereforenot eafily difeerned. ,teafon. Secondly, as it is hard to fee the want of this grace of faith, fo it is marvellous difficult to fee theufe,andneed,and benefit, and helpe, that will come
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