The Sin f ulne /Te of Sinne. thófe extreme difcourfes,& many times men would not be at fuch difdance in tenents, if they did not too muck concurre in the pride and vaine glory of an opinionative minde. And furely fo is it'in matters of religion and pra- ice, many times courfes extremely oppote are ein,- brac'd out of the felfe -fame uniforme frame and temper of fpirit;ahumour pertinacioufiyto adhere to the waies which aman hath beene bred in, may upon contrary educations produce contrary effects, and yet the princi- pall reafon be the fame, as it is the fame vigour and vertue of the earth which from different feeds put into it,produceth different fruits. So then a man may abílaine from many evils, and doe many good things meerely out ofrefpe ì to their breeding, out of a native ingenui- ty, and faire opinion of their fathers piety, withóut any fuch experimental) and convincing evidence of the truth, or Spirituali and Holy love of the goodneffe, by which the true members of Chrift are moved unto the fame obfervances. Fourthly, the Legali and Affrighting Power which is in the Word, when it is fit on by a skilfull mailer of the affemblies. For though nothing but the Evangelicall vertue ofthe Word begets true and fpirituall obedience, yet outward conformity may be fafhioned by the terror ofit. As nothing but vitali, feminall, and flcfhly prin- ciplescan organize a living and true man: yet the ftrokes and violence of hammers, and other inítrurnents, being moderated by the hand of a cunning worker,canfafhion the fhapeof a man.in a dead (tone. As .Ahab was hum- bled by the Word in fotne degree,when yet he was not converted by it. Fifthly, the power of a mitisrdll illightned Con fcience, either awakened by fome heavy affliction, or affrighted with the feare of Iudgement, or at belt, affìfled with a temper of gencroufneffc and ingenuity, a certaine nn- bleneffe of difpofition which can by no meanes endure X to
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