410.4.1..6.11.10.----_ Theseules Valued calling to Chrift. 533 the courfe of mens carriages and lives, wee [hail obferve, that everyman will acknowledge his in- firmities in other things, but now his inabilities in this, there is not one man confeffeth : one complaines, his abilities are poore, bee cannot pray as he lbould ; another, his parts are mean; he cannot conferre as heought ; another, hispaf- fions are unruly and heady, and hecannot matter them as God requires and commands : thus eve- ry one will confefle his infirmities in other things, but goe to every mans doore, and aske, doe younot beleeve ? why ? all the fwearers, and drunkards, and fors in the towne, they can be- leeve, they candoe this, though they can doeno- thing elfe ; they cannot pray, they cannot under- fiand,they cannotremember, they cannot fubdue their corruptions, but they (hall be taken away with company, and fall into that finne, but they canbeleeve inChrift with all their hearts : thus wefee that every man thinkes it inhispower,and within the compatfe of his abilitie naturally to reíf upon Chrift. Now marke what followeth, why thould a man delire that hee hath ? why fhould he feeke for that he bath attained ? why thould he labour to bepoffeff'edof that which is inhis owne power,and he is poffeß'ed ofalready? if I canbeleeve naturally, if itbe inmypower to goe to Chrift when I lit , why (hall I ufe all meanes, and receive abilitie to doe that which I can doe bymyovine power ? and this I take to be onemainground,why the endevours ofmen are takenofffrom attending,andwhy the labours yyy of
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