· Ofturningfrom our elJifl 11ayes. 119 a fpring, that to morrow there will be new ones wiU inflaurAre Aciem, and make a new fupply; ic is Oill recovering firength aodfetdngup :tfreth. _All .which con!idered,it appeares to bemoll: dif– ficul~ (or unregenerate men to begin to turne; or fo( regenerate men to get anygr~und oftheir evill wayes. . lfto turne fromour evill wayes,and to refill: the rfl law. of the members be fo difficult ; then learne ro proportion your labour to the worke; elfe the bu.: -fineffe ·will not be etfeeted. Ifmuch labour be re– quired, and little befiowed; then that whichis beflowed, will be loft. . . .Thinke therefore with your [elves, that ifyon have taken none or fmall paines, the worke is not yecdone. Ifany man havethoughcit aneafie work, let that be enough to convince him that the worke is not yet wrought• . The blunter the toole is, the more fireEJgth muft beput to it: many ftay yet in . their fins, becaufe chey have undervalued the diffi. · culcy of this worke, and have thoug-ht leffe paines would have ferv'd the turne. · Isit eafie to change and tu roe the cenrfe of nature ~ fee it by expfri. enc.e;ifa man have anaturaH inclinati0ry; though it may be leffe fiirring fometimes then other, yet it _will recurne againe and. ~ga.ine ; ~nd !f thou. uf~ll not as much forces agato.ft It, as It brings wtth 1t, thou do£1: nothing to refill it. Ifone come againll: you with ten thoufand, and you meet him but with two thoufand,who ~s like to get the vitlory~ Thpu : . mull not theref<ue fpare any paines. . Difjcilia .– qutt pulchr. : this is the moll,excellent thing, and Q.3 there,
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