is made mani fe fi by God. comes in this in the third place, they are delivered up to a reprobate fenfc, fo as they cannot Neale themfelves, they are brought to an irrecoverable hare, as a man in quicke (ands that goes deeperand deeper, and knowes not how to get our, they are given up to vile affections, fo as they cannot loofe themfelves from the bands of the Devill ;but marke the progreffe : Firit, God reveales himfelfe, then they provoke him by precedent fins, then he gave them up to thefe affections. But to open the point at large, and to. (hew the excufes men have, and their weakeneffe, and how they are taken away, and then it will bee evident that all men are inex- !cufable. The firff pretence men have, is that they know not God, they are not acquainted with him, they are ignorant of his waves : That is cafily anfwered, that they that know him leafs, yet have fo much knowledge as will make them inexcufable : They that have onely beene acquainted with the Creati- on of the world, falvage men that never heard the Word, that wire never acquainted with the Scri}-- ture,yet thefcknow God, for Gcd bath manifefted himfelfe to them. This Iproved at large in the former point, fo that no man can deny but hee. knowes God, that is, that there is a God; and this very thing, if no more,is enough to make them in- excufable, for they knew God, but glorified hihi not as God : when filch a man knowes there is an Almighty power, by his natural} wit, he is; able to deduce, if the r. be a God, I muff behave my felfe well towards him, I mutt feare him ás God,i muff be 203 SE 11..1X. The Excufes ; whereby mon endevourto purge them- iclves. Excufe I. I hat they know not God. vinf v.
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