3 f 8 Chnil. speople ngpeople. VE R S E 3. cording as the workings and reprefentations of theone or other are at the timemore frefh and predominant, in like maner is finne for that time either cherifhed or fup- preffed. Manymen at a good Sermon,vvhen thematter is frech andnewly prefented, while they are looking on their face in the gliffe ; or in any extremitie offickneife, when the provifions of lull doe not rein for the prefent, when they have none but thoughts of falvation to de- pend upon, arc very refolute to make promifes, vowes, and profeffions ofbetter living;but when the pleafures of fin grow firong to prefent then delves again,they returne like a man recover'dofan ague with more flomacke and greedineffe to their lutisagaine. As water which path been flop'd for a while rufheth with themore violence, when its paffages are opened. A double heart is like the boles of a Scale,accordingas more weight is put into one or other, fo are they indifferently over-rul'dunto either motion,upor downe. When I fee avapour afcend out of the earth into thesire, why fhould I not thinke that it willncver leave riling till it get up toheaven? and yet be- caufe the motion isnot naturall, but curled either by ex- pulfion from a heat within, or by attraaion from a heat without,when the caufe ofthat afcent is abated,and the matter gathers together into a thicker confiftence , it growes heavie and Pals downe againe. Even fuch is the affeaion ofthole faint & unrefolved defiresof men who like Agrippa arebut halfr-perlmided tobelieve inChrifl. But now laywee muff obferve , that in the day of Chrias power, when he by hisword and Spirit vvorketh effeaually in the hearts of men , they are then made free-will offerings, Totally willing toobey and ferve him in all conditions. The heart of every one iiirreth him up, and his Spirit maketh himwilling for theworke and fir - vice of the Lord, Exed.35.2 I. They yeeld thensfelves unto theLord, and their membersas weaponsofrigh- teoutheffe unto him, 3 Chrens.3o.8. Row.6.19. They offer
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