TheSoudes effe1uall calling te Chrift. 585 that begins tobring inthe old plea,and will mains taine the old quarrel!, though reafon confuted them, and conscience condemned the weaknefiè thereof, and theyhave beene anfwered from day to day, yet agaiuft knowledge, and confcience, and truth, and reafon and all, the Pinner you {halt finde out of hisdiftemper offpirit, will keep hisold obje&ions, and maintains his oldcavils; and if they were anfwered over night, beewill have them againe in the morning, whereas a man wouldhave thought they would never have durff appeared before the evidence of the truth anymore,becaufe the cafe was fo fullyanfwered, and fo fully fatisfied ; therefore the wound is here, Iabour therefore to cure it, namely get thy heart fofar awed, get thy foule fo far overpow- erd with the foveraigne command, royal! autho- rityofthe truth, that it may fubmit it 1 lfc, and yceld towhat everword the Lord reveals,towhat ever truth theLord difcovers to the foule, end be- ware efpecially that thou doff not outof' a felfe. wild waywardneffe reje&and refute theevidence ofthe truth and the verdi& that the Word paf- fethupon thy foule for thy everlafl'inggood; that becaufe thou hail not comfortas thouwilt,there- fore thou wilt have noneat all;&it isnot fomucb, becaufe thoucanft not receive the promife, but becaufe out ofa waywardncfeof heart thou wilt not entertains the promife, that caufeth all this debate, here lie; the root ofthisbitterneffe, and the groundofthis wretched citate : weewill ex- prelfe our felvesby pra: ice : hence it is, that E e e e 3 when
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