Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P74 S2 1637

16 l u n As Repentance. 4 Deceit. Anfw. Deceit. AnIw. tance, for iudas did fo. This repentance molt com- monly rifeth from felfe -love ; every creature lo- veth his owne fafety fo at death a man is willing to leave finne,but this comes from nature and Idle- love, becaufe he would not goe to hell, and moil commonly thefe men,if it pleafe God that ever they recover out of their fickneffes, they fall into the fame courfes againe. Fourthly,He will excufe our finne by fome ver. tues wherewith he hath affinity ; he will put on us ppßiata vitìa, thofe vices that have fume neereneffe to venue. I anfwer : howfoever the Divell may ufe fuch diftindtions to helpe out his baits to fin for atime, yet in the time of trouble they will not hold out, but appeare as they are indeed. Fifthly, He makes men beleeve their nature is prone to it, and they cannot leave ir. If Iwere as filch and fuch men are,indeed I could abftaine, but my nature is filch that it wilt not fuffer me. I anfwer : Thou niuft know that this doth not excufe but aggravate thy finne ; if thy nature be prone to any finne, know, that the finne is much more grievous : we loathe a toade becaufe of the ve- nomous nature of it ; fo God loatheth our nature, becaufe its finfull. As a drunken man that mur- thers another commits a double finny, one ofdrun- kenneífe, another of murther, which comes from drunkenneffe ; fo, lour nature be prone to any fin which we commit, itsa double finne ; firft, in that it is natural' to us and originali : fecondly, that we coin-

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