\ 218 lSsR.VIU. Mat.u. I ha<tpe put olfmy_coat,&.c, Ifthey be good, why doe I aotdoe them ~ If they be bad,whydoe I doe themat all~ Ifthey·\ be good, whydoe I fticke at them 0: how doe I prove them to be good~have alway ready fome Scripture, or reafon from thence which is as good. The reafons of the word are moll divine– ly firong,let them be ready againO: all ObjeCtions whatfoever; as againfi fleight oathes, thinke ofthatofChrifi, thatwemufl giveandCcotmt for all idle words, how much more for Atheifticall oathes : fo ag:tinll: groffer Gnnes learn.e rea– fon ; a civill man, an Heathenwould not doe thus. So alfowhen the fl efb movathus toany back– wardneffein religious courfes, let us hav~ fomc 1~ Scripture ready ,0t reafons deducted from it. As F!MJ the1:>~- 1 From the Dignity ~1oew Profofflon,ftom the grettt nt(Y of our pro- Hopes we have to heglorioU! Another da,y. And rea– fe(Jion. fon the matter, how cloth this that I am moved to fnit withmyHopes and expeCtation tocome~ how furthers it my journey homewards ~ And 2 • confider this likewife, Thttt no excufe will flrva Confider wbat the turne lit the day ofjuagement, hut focb llrJ one tU e:c:;~r may,tbbel 4ri fCthftom an invinciMe infirmity, or 11n unremo. jufj.ttent a e rb . d . day ofjudge~ vea le tmpe tment; fuch an excufe taken from an ment. invincible infirmity' may then ferve the turne: l As when we cannot poffiblydoe a thing from impediments, that all the meanes in the worl~ cannot remove-·: As apoore man cannot be libe– rall, &c. Excufes alfo fetcht .from impoflihle im– pediments ; as from invincible weaknelfe may availe, ifa man have an infirmebody, rhat he cannot
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