.. .I V p R I G H. T N A s. ------ thegracestowhichtheygive a w6nud, ftillga– ther more iherigrh; but wid1orhe;rs it is not [d~ fiillthey are wcakn<:dby their relapfes,the good thingsthey feemed to havc,orre fiil11elfencd, and fufferdiminution, till at length they be quite abolifheCi. That is one difference. . ' .The fecond is thouch a godly m<tn fail ,.Difference, · _, ~ e . Agod!yman backe to finne againe and againe, yft he never ·allaweshim ~ fals. backe to the allowance of any finne; there felfei~nofin, ~ is a greatdiffercnce,myBrloved, betweene thefe theWlc:krddo two, betweene returning to the aet of a finne, and the allowance of it: Another man cloth : not onely rcturne to-the linne, but he returnes likewife to the-continuance in it, he is ready, in. the end, either toexcufr.:. the finne, to find our fomedevice and excufe for it, or elfe he is rea– dy to fay, I fee it is impoffible for me to over. · come it, I fee there is no remedy, I mull: give : upmy felfe to it: Thus you f11all fee in the rebpfes of S.aul; Sau! tooke a refolurion more In/lancu. : than once, that he would perfecme David no more; and no doubt this refolu.tion w~1s ex- : ceeding heJrty for the rime; but you fee, he did not onely rcmrne to the ad, but to a-conti– unanceinir,and an allowance ofhimfelfein it. So likewife did Pharaoh, he refoived many times that he would let the people goe, and made that promif\: tO#ofes and to rhe LoRD, · that he wou~d let them go; but you fee, he . returned ag:une,not onely to the finnc,butto fuchan al1owanceofit, that he excufed him· felfe in it, he thought rather, he had erred in V 4 his w~ • ewa;: tv c esb.s nw .... t ...- .,..--Y-.s~sete ~ ea . (&& -· ;
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