The Seule, effeîtuatIcalling toChrift. 455 confeffe and crie out of his finne, and refolve amendment, and the drunkard loaths his old company, and the adultererwill not goe after his Tuffs anymore, and thecovetous man in thehors tour ofconfcience,will rid his hands ofall his ill gottengoods, and fend for one man, and call for another, and make reftitutìon, and all this while not one word offaith,nor ofgoing out ofhim- felfe to a Chriff for mercie and fuccour for him; nay, thofe that have beene defperat perfect'- toursofGod, and ofhis truth and grace, upon their death-beds they will turne to God,and love his people, and now thofe will pray, whichfor- merly have fcorned prayer, and they will doe thisand that, andyet all this while not oneword" ofthis precious faith : the reafon iffues from the two former things, becaufe they arenot convin- ced that they want faith, and doe not fee the need and ufe offaith, and therefore doe not de- fire nor looke after it : fo gather up all, and the funirne isthis,ifall men by natureare marvellous hardly convinced that they want faith,and fee the little, andWall men beffow leaff care how toget this faith, then thecafe is cleare, and it is nomar- vel! though the naoff men want faith : now wee have laid the inditement, and it is marvellous faire, you fee, andyou cannotbut confefre it, for it is againf} reafon todeny it, as fome ífurdy hy- pocrites doe,that will beleevenothing, but what theyTiff sand yet they willbe beleevers too. Now let as come to plead the inditment crowmee thictkes every mans heart fhould trem- L II bie
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