The soutes effeáuafl calling to Chrifl. 497 m °aforeofit, but not enough for the uprightneffe and fincerityofit, hee plowed deep enough, but he left force thorns Handing, andhee had forne 1ufls teat his heart was more affec`led with, bee would not be thus ,but there were forne bafe,inor- dinate,earthly afEfaions,wh chwereclofci> fafte- r,ed to hisheart, andhis heart glued to them, bee would not plow themup, and thiswas ill husban- t ry, if he had done right, he would haveplowel up every thorne as well as forne: allthe paffages of Scripture run this way, as Luke 3. S. Everyvally PJPallbe frr/ed, andevery hiu and routfurze !hag be brought low, and every crooked thing 'hallbeemade ftrait ; beedoth not fay, this or that mountaine, but every mountable-5 not one fume, but every finne ; not the heart to bee loosened from one particular fine ',butfrom every finne whatfoever; ifever you bee humbled,- and that you make worke of it, you muff blowup all, as Matth, z 3: 44. thewife merchant man went andfold allto buy the field; notfold fame, but all; fo this flurdy hypo- crite fhould have foldall his luflsand corruptions, and every curled haunt of heart, and every finfull withdrawing of foule : you know the privie prankes ofyour hearts, if there bebut one finfull luft maintained and continued in, it wit con. demne youas well asan hundred thoufand : there is nobargaine to bemade with Chrifl,ifyou dai- ly with him and (landdodging, hewill not yeeld toyou, no, no, you muff fell all, this man hadhis heart humbled in thecon(deration offorce franc, and it, Was either for the feare ofthe puni(hment Derr3 of 9 =
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