584 The Soule,effeauaflcalling toChrift. a ftournefTenot fullyconquered,it gaine-layes ir, and raifeth up new, and keeps the old quarrells, thofeoldquarrels that have beene anfwered long agoe, that a man would have thought they had beene dead long agoe, a mans flout heart will bring thofe in afreth againe : it is in this cafe with a poore firmer, as it is witha man that bath a contentions adverfary that delights in wrang. ling, the cafe haply hath beene tried in all the courts inEngland, at laft itcomes into the Chan- cery, and there it is concluded againft him and the decreepaired, fo that now all the bufineffe is effablifhed; the Lawyers have pleaded it, the judgedetermined it,and the man is overthrown, and thereforenowin reafonhe fhouid fit downe, and yeeld, but the wrangling party perfwades him that beewill not yeeld, but bee will goe to law againe, and fell all he bath before bee will let let it goe thus : therefore hee begins the fuit againe, and puts in the old plea, till at Taft the Judge knowing the man, cafts offhis plea, and flings offhiscage, and puts him inprifon dare you againft the court and the fentence fet downe, put in the old plea, and trouble the court, and the law in this nature ? fo it is with the foule, the heart of a gracious man humbled in fornemea±ure and in truth, could be content now and then toyeeld to theevidenceof reafon, and verdiáofconfcicnce, and the foule comes tobee cheered; Blefl"ed beGod, my eftare is better than I thought; but there is an old breed-bate, and proud ,tout heart, a fturdy felfe-wildheart, and that
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