498 The Soaóer effal;mldcalling to Chrift. ofhis finne ingenerall,or elfe forfeareofplague, andof hell, andofGods wrath, orelfebecaufe of the fhame anddifgrace that would corne there- by, but ifhe had beene truly troubled for finne, becaufe it is the breachofGods commandments, then every finne would have ffrucke upon his heart,and troubled him ; thus it is with the heart rightly torneupby the law, but if it have onely herea bauke and there a bauke,then it is baledea. ling, and y-ou will never haveharveff norhopeof mercie upon this ground, but if' a man play the goodhusband,hemuff plowupail, from one cor- ner ofhis confcience to the other, and frcm.the beginning ofhis heart to theending, theremuff be nocorruption fetled, but hate finne as fnne, and therefore every finne, this is the temper of the foule that the Lord will doe goodunto, and here is the failingof moff unfound hearts, many religious menand profefl'ours roc?, what they bee the Lord knows, theywill dailywith this finne and that finne, but a true broken heart (hakes at the leaff finnemore than at all punifhments, and had rather endure the torments ofhell, than that the leaff=finne fhouldbe committedbyhim 5 this is a good heart which makes goodworke of it, andherein this hypocrite failes, fo that though he had legali terrour enough, for themeafure of it, yet it was notright for themanner ofit, for it could not bee any fining worke ofgrace, there- fore it muff needs bee a terror for finne, and yet the heart never truly humbled, nor never plowed inpeeces by the law, and by theworke of
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