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0 D
s
go; One was, he
wan~ed fpec~h,hewanred
abili–
tie and gifts;·H
c
was
of
a
Jlammering tongue
5
And
the other
was,
thofe were aliue,
that
(he thought)
1
fought
hislift:Ifhe
had rhought thatG
od
was
able
{ to
hauebin with his tor.Jgue, to haue firengthned
him,and to haueimproved his gifts, and to haue
inabledhim
to
the fervice: if he had dwught
likewif~
that he bad been able
to
h~iue
defended
him from
rhofethatfought his lift,
he would ne–
ver haue difobeyed the Cemmandemenrs of.
aod,and
bin backward tq-performe-it
as
he was.
And folikewife
Rebecca,
'h
7
hatwasthe reafon
fl1e vfed that wyle
&
ihifr, that inordinatemeans.
to bringagood thingtopaffe, to obtain
the6lef-
-
Jing,whenlacob&
ihe joynedin 1yingro
Ifaack,
but becauletheythought
God
wasnot
Sufficient
to-performe that prornife?Forthe
Mefsing
belon–
ged
tolacob,
&no doubt b}Itheflmnld hauc
hacl
itinduetime. Andfoitisjnallthefaults ofthe
saints;
which are hence,becaufe they
~pprehend
nor
God
to
be
A
tl-
fujficient;
even as
it
was in the
firll: linne
ofAdam
and the
Angels;
what was the
reafon that
A
dam
felfrom
God:ltthe
firll:~Itwas
hecaufeh;e defired fomething that he thought he
could not find
in
the
Lord,
he defiredto
know
goodand
evi!t,
which
he
thought he fhould not
haue in the
Lord,he
thought the
Lord
had kepr
it.from him,andtherefore hefl:epped _outfrom
the
Lord
to
eat
that
Apple,
vling that as
a
meanes
toobtainehis delire.And
this,
indeede, was the
caufeofhis-falling away.So likewife,thecaufeof
the falling
of~he
Ange!s,r
Tim.,;.6.the
Apoftle
fayth