obfcure a rule for thee ; ( l will adde but this ,..Rule~ forthe making ofit plaine.) Looke to the efBytheclfeCI:. feets. Thou pretendeQ, lhave not chofen ano– therHusband,Ihave chofen the L~rd for my' God, and himwill I ferue, it is well, itis a · Ioh.B. good profeffion, but take heed you be onafure ground. Saith our Saviour, John 8. You pre– tend that -you are the children of<..Abraham, that you have liim for your Father, and not the DeviU: but I fay unto you, hee that committeth jirme, is the fervant ofjimze: and fo likewi(~, Knowyounot,thattowhomfoeveryouobey,hisfer• vl.ntsyoHare; to whom you obey? -Rim;6. And agaiRe, 2 Pet.z. ()jwhomfoever amtmis over.. come, to that he is in bondage. Looketo it now, art thou overcome with finne? doft thou obey finne, when it comes with a command upon thee~ do!I: thou commit ·finne? Certainely; thou hall: chofen another Husbanq, thou doeft deceiv~thy felfe. ~ Alas,you will fay, is it every committing of finne that breaketh thecovenant. An{w. . No, Be!o':Jed, tlut is not the .meaning ofit, Aconfiant b k 1 d f' h' ,t fi · d courfcinlin a · utta e 1ce eo t lS, W11en a mne1s : rawne figneofcho~ outas athred in thecourfe ofthy life, now in ling another truth thou obeyeftit now thou art overcome· husband thara . ' . • • God. of1t, now it hathdommwnwhenfoeve.r ltcommands thee; when there·-is,I fay, a trad: of . ,, finne,whena man is ll:illgivento fuch a way, t.ofuchan in'firJUitie,( Icannotproperlycallit · an inf.irmitie) that you may fay it is fuch amans trad~,hevtalkesinir,nowa man obeyes finn~e •
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