Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P74 S2 1637

Zo6 SB objei7, The Law of mans judgement and they are able to goe as far as their light goes,and I will appeale to any mans experience, let him looke backe to the courfe of his life, and examitrt himfelfe, was there ever any particular adion in all thy life, from which thou waft fo hindred, that thou can't fay thou couldeft not doe it t was there ever any particular fin, of which thou couldft fay, this fin I could not abftaine from e And howfoever we may make it a matter of difpute in the Schooles ; yet the wont man, one in whom we may thinke corruption of nature to be molt ftrong, when he comes to dye, he doth not excufe himfelfe, but acknowledge he is guilty. If you confiderthe nature of liberty,there is a fpontaneity in beafts, by which they are carried to that which their appetite defires,but that is not Li6e- rum, though Spontaneum : But when a reafonable creature lookes on a thing as Blegi6ile or no Elegi- 6ile, and not onely f o, but is able to reafon on both fides, is able to fee arguments for both,that makes it differ from Spontaneity, when there is no outer im- pediment, when you may take or refute it, when you have Arguments to reafon, and fee the comm. dity and difcommodiry of it,your will is nowfree,fo that I may truely affirme every man bath a free. will to do that, for the not doing of which he is con. dcmned ; marke ir. But you will object, I but a man is condemned for not belceving, for not turning to God, for not having his heart changed, for not being a new Crea- ture,but there no man hath power to doe ; therefore a man is condemned for fornething which he is not able to doe. To

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