It uhard to helee"'pe · he mayacknowledgethething to be good, yet his heart is not wrought to practife it; forth ere is fomethingyet behind, fome objections, that are not yetanfwered. Itis onlyGodrhat harh an univerfalllighr, that is a gen~rall worker; and rherforehe is fai.d to beonly Jvifo:fora man is not faidro bee wife, except he know all things that belong tofueh a bulines; Ifthereheany part or .cornerofit hid from him, he isnot wife; that is, he is not able to proceed aright, he is fubjed to error:but Godwhohathahundanceoflight,God that kno\v~sall things;is onely wife: and there– fore he is one1y abJet? perfwade.Hence it is that men arc 0.ble to perfvvade,.that fuch graces. are good, that ft1ch waies areexcellent in themfdues thatii isgood to-take fitch courfes;but yet to an· fwereallrhefecret objections ofthe hearr, to · perfwade fully, toturn·e all the wheeles of the foule~ this is that which aman is not able todo-e, to enlighten all thecorners ofthehearr,heis not able to convince fully. · Re-if. Z• Secondly, GodisoneiY:ab.letodoeit; ~ecaufe . God onely_ I he only knowes all t~1e. :~ln.dmgsand tnrmng.s of know ;, the e- 1 theheart ofman: Itts{atdm I er. 17. 9 · that tht veral tot.,!llnb~ 1 h ./'. · J' J • •I'. f h k · o ft he hean. . ettrt o 1 ma-;'J u exuer;t,tngaecettJu ,w o ~an li(JWtt? Ierem. 17.. 9· That js,nn man in the world can know his own ricah, much1effe ca-nanyman elfeknow it,.there are fomany ·.vindings, fo many turnings in it, 1 rhere is fuch a labytinth in thehcart,filcha depth inir,thatnomanisabletofearchhisown hearr, to find out thebottome ofit:oh but who is able to doeit~ Saith hee, in the ·next words>i~is God· · that: •
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