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if malice command him to hate, then he must obey malice, and hate, and envy his brother, when covetousness is a mans master, and, if that bids him gripe, and cheat, and cozen, he must then do it, i• a man be thus a servant to sin, he is free from righteousness, he cannot be made partaker of grace and salvation so long as he remains in this estate and condition.

if malice command him to hate, then he must obey malice, and hate, and envy his brother, when covetousnesse is a mans master, and, if that bids him gripe, and cheate, and cozen, he must then doe it, i• a man be thus a servant to sin, he is free from righteousnes, he cannot be made partaker of grace and salvation so long as he remaines in this estate and condition.

Fourthly, the fourth passage is this, as the soul of a natural man declines from grace offered and revealed, as it opposeth grace, pressed so in the ⟨p. 97⟩fourth place it is not willing to be wrought upon, that it may be fit to receive grace, and be made capable of it; there is no natural man under heaven that is willing to be wrought upon, that he may be capable to receive grace,¹ he would not have grace and Christ, and though he might in the 19. of Luke the 14. and 27. verses, our Saviour Compares himself to a master that was to go into a far Country to receive a kingdom, and therefore gives over his estate into the hands of his servants, he called his ten servants and gave them ten pounds, saying, Occupy till I come.

Fourthly, the fourth passage is this, as the soule of a naturall man declines from grace offered and revealed, as it opposeth grace, pressed so in the ⟨p. 97⟩fourth place it is not willing to be wrought upon, that it may be fit to receive grace, and be made capable of it; there is no naturall man under heaven that is willing to be wrought upon, that hee may be capable to receive grace,