53o CHAP 5. AnExpofition von the firf# VER. 19. I Aft.só.zld. m.lie I°íoíh. r; 9. lfa.54 ye in it ? and as Agrippa, are c almoff perrwatied to becomeChriffianr. But fee the curled vnthankfulnefTe of men, wilfully letting themfelues to repell fuck motions rhofe tweet infpirements of Gods holy Spirit, they call I would I might fay, ignorantly, firs of melancholy ; I am furs ,prolanely,qualmesofdeuotion. And then hafte to their curled companie, and no Idle than abominable court es, to chafe away thole qualmes of conlcience. Oh wo:tderfull mercy of God offered to filch mens fouler, had they grace to confider and accept it! How iuftly may the Lord fay to them, as he fpeakesto Ifrael ; d Your de- tiro ton it of your feines; and as to Ierufalem, c what (bould be have done more that he bath not done ? Teaching them by his Word, wakening them by his Rod, inui tingthem by his bountic, offering himfelfe to them by his Spirit; whiles they defperately farAettheir one mer- r.7. The dues vfuall of filch men arc. Firft, that their hearts growthercby more obdurate. Secondly, the life more brurifh and abominable. Thirdly, elfe fall they in- to agonies of confeience, filch as wherein they perifh through euerlaftingdefpairc. Thirdly, A third fort there are, and they are much amongft vs; men that vnder pretence of dtfcretion, and teeing more into the flare of Religion than at firft en- trance they could fee, abate of their feruour, and, as they now terme ir, violence of gracious affeetions; feeming f to conceit, t here may be ammiumof demotion; men may be ouerforward and zealous ; A Sermon now and then loth wcll;euery weeks hearing is not fo neceliarie 5 (lu- dic of Scriptures is good at leifure times, as it were for recreation; we be not Angels, but Men and there is a rcafon in all things,euen in religioufneffe,lfinen could hit on it. I confetffc there is a kind of devotion, wherein men may be too ferucnt, but that deuotion is fuper/ii. tion; a kinde of zeale whereof may bee a nimium - but ftom.to.s. that is f x °ale not according to knowledge : yet beware, 1be-
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