Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

,. ~.Diffetence~ In [heir man– ner o~ liling._ his purpofe of letting diem go; and fo conti– nued frill to -retaine them~ This you fhall find in all the falls .ofHypocrites, if? all theirrelap– fes, thatin the end ·chow-ever for -atime they may refume thair purpofes againe) they weare · ~hem our, and they fieppe backe to a-refolution ._to continue- in ·that fin ne; they thinke thus with . themfelues, I fee it is a finne that prevaiies a– ·gainfime, I am not able to refiftit;itis too fl:rong ~orme, ;and therefore I wifl g? no .more about It~~" : Thirdly;. as · there is a<diffe:rence in this; ._: fo there is .a difference in their manner .ofover.. · comming,- and in their manner ~·o f. returning, . when they arife out ofa finne, whentheypre. - ferue them!elues -fro m it after -a relapfe,- by -· which you may judge likewife l for you may ~ judge the one by the other: -A· man whofe . heart is unfound, may take to himfelfe a ftrong · and fixed rcfolntion, by which he may refill: – the fi.nne, and yet this ·banke may be borne · downe by the violence of Temptation: Bllt · in agodljr man the reliltance is otherwife, and · accor_dingly:the rehtpieis of a different nature: ' for the r~fi£huwe is after this· manner, it is as . when you fee one ftreamerelilt another, as yo6 · ·simile~ fee in Rivers -that -- are -fubject to ebl:>ing :.and ·. How ~round ; flowing, there runnes-a contrary ·fireame; that . he~rtrc1iileth · over-hearesit;fo it is in thofe ·that are fOund- ' 1 tinrw:.. hearte.d,' there is a ll:rong inclination that car– ries them~mother way, fi1ch as was exprdfcd,. qa/.5 ..17. TheSpirit lujleth againjl·the jlejh: [6 · . ili~)

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