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Sixthly,¹ when mens resolutions come from external principles, they are acted by something from without them, as the examples of others, or esteem from others, or persuasions by others, more then from any principle within themselves. We read, Heb. 10. 34. those Christians there mentioned held out in their resolutions, to the suffering the spoiling of their goods with joy, knowing within themselves, that in ⟨p. 207⟩Heaven they had an enduring substance; they had their principles within themselves.

Sixthly,¹ when mens resolutions come from externall principles, they are acted by something from without them, as the examples of others, or esteeme from others, or perswasions by others, more then from any principle within themselves. We read, Heb. 10. 34. those Christians there mentioned held out in their resolutions, to the suffering the spoiling of their goods with joy, knowing within themselves, that in ⟨p. 207⟩Heaven they had an enduring substance; they had their principles within themselves.

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Seventhly,¹ when resolutions come merely from anguish of mens spirits, in regard of present trouble that men are in, from the hand of God upon them, it may be then they will resolve to do or suffer any thing; but these resolutions seldom come to any thing: It is strange that men should trust to them, considering the abundances of experiences, both from themselves and others, that they have had of the usual falseness of them.