Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Let reasons be brought out of the Scriptures to prove usury ⟨p. 295⟩unlawful, and to prove that sabbaths must be kept holy, if men will not be kept in, or will not be so straight laced, they will not be convinced, the spirit must convince them. Otherwise for the Minister to speak without the spirit, is as it were to bring, a letter […] written without a candle to read being dark, For the Minister may bring reasons, but if the spirit light us not to read them they will not profit us nor convince us.

Let reasons be brought out of the Scriptures to prove usury ⟨p. 295⟩unlawful, and to prove that sabboths must be kept holy, if men will not be kept in, or will not be so straight laced, they will not be convinced, the spirit must convince them. Otherwise for the Minister to speak without the spirit, is as it were to bring, a letter 〈…〉 written without a candle to read being dark, For the Minister may bring reasons, but if the spirit light us not to read them they will not profit us nor convince us.

Secondly, It stands in doing whatsoever we are convinced of. See an example of an honest heart to be considered in Cornelius, Act. 10. 33. we are here present, saith he to Peter, to hear whatsoever is commanded of God to hear, viz. to obey. See in Nathaniel, behold a true Israelite, in whom there is no guile. This is guile in a mans heart, when he makes a show to do many things and deceives himself in doing them. See in Paul when he was strucken down to the earth, Act. 9. he said, Lord what wilt thou that I do? and I will do it. And so he did not only in doing but suffering for him: and such a heart is in every man after conversion, for till then he will not give his shoulders to the yoke. See an example of an honest heart seemingly in Johanan,