When aman is{aid to caft away God. ·0 p T PI & · ' / GDd. Samuel charged him with. no lelfe; fo~ faithhe,thyji~nt is tU witehcraft, it is as Idola .. try, that is,th.ou haft cafl: God quite _away,thou ; haltchofen to thy felfe another Lfird~ anothe.r 1 Husband tO obey. How lhall this be made ' . · good~ Thtrs: when a man receives a Com~ mandement from ·God( markeit) ·when a man :knowes lt is theLotds, will, thatI firould walke , I thusand thus ,before him,that I ili~uld abfraine from fuch and filch finnes, I ·cannor deny but .this is his Commandement; well, when a m:m ,comes to the keepingofit,& his heart find's out excufes,and faith in fuch and'fuch a·caft\I hope I may be fomewhat excufed- from a firict per~ formanceofit5-I fay, :when · the hear.t at ariy time deli.berates~ and yet that word is not fuffi~ cient to exptelfe it, but when the heart workcs according to it owne r.roper iodination, and then difobeyes the Lord in any Commande. ment; ·certaineiy then it cafi:s Godaway.' Belo. V(d, it is .riot fuch dirobedie:nce,as when a man istranfported with a ll:rong affection, all:rong temptation, when he is not himfelfe for a time, fotthenifhis linne. b~difcovered,,he ealily re– turnes,and will bediefame man he was, bur .I fay,whenamandeliberately commits fin, \Vhen aman con~?e~s himfdfe we,ll, and he is. not f tranf~ort~d ~.tr.h theftr~ngth.of a te~ptatton; I but htsheart workesat hberne, fo ·hat heacts himfelfe,inrhis cafe hedorh as sd.ut r!id, he cafts Gstl away, and God fent himword that ·hehadcaft ,hfmaway. d- · The,
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