- a .17 ChrOspeopleavillingpeople. 41. was once moreby the experience of David,/ innocencie reduc'd unto the fame acknowledgement. .The people in one place would have made Chtia a King, fo much did they kerne to honour him, andyet at another time when their over-pliable and unrefolved affe&ions were wrought uponby the fubtile Pharifes, they cried againfl him, as againft a slave, Crucifie him,crucifie him; io may it be in the gencrall fervices ofGod, men may have wifhings and wouldings, and good liking ofthe truth, and force faint and floating refolutions to purfue it which yet having no firme roots, nor proceeding from the whole bent ofthe heart, from a through mortificati- onoffinne and evidence of Grace, but from Inch weake and wavering principles, as may bee perturbed by every new temptation, like letters written in land, they vanifh awaylike a morning dew, and leave the heart as hard and fcorched as it was before. The young man(whom for his ingenuity and forwardneffe Chilli loved) came in a fad and serious manner to !came of Chrifi the way to heaven: and yet wee finds there were fecret refervations whichhe hadnot ddeemed in himfelfe, on difcoveriewhereofby Chrifl he was difcouraged and made repent of his refolution, Marke 10. 21,22. The Apofile fpeaketh of a Repentance net to be repented of, 2 Cor.7.1c. which bath finne,folid,and permanent tea. fons to fupport it, therein fecretly intimating that there is likewife a Repentance, which riling out of an incom- plete will,and admitting certaine ferret and undifcerned refervations,doth upon the appearance ofthern,flag and fall away, and leave the unfaithfull heart to repent ofits repentance. Saint lames tels us that adonble.mindedman it :affable I' ad bit :roger, Iano. 7.8. never uniforme nor conflant toany rules. Now this divifion of the minds Rands thus ; The heart on the.one fide is taken up with the pleafares ofntnoe fir the prelim ; and on the other with the defirereffolvationfir thefostnre; and now ac- i cording 3 1 7 VERSE 3.
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