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And hath there not been some stirring and stickling of desires to perform what ye have resolved and engaged to? And will ye break all these bands? Will ye repent and rue, that ever ye engaged to God? If so, as ye notably play the fools, So the Lord will be about with you, and even spew you out of his Mouth, that ye may puddle your fill in the mire of sin. 5. Is there not a great bentness and propension in all naturally to turn again to folly? Is there not an evil heart of unbelief, ready to depart from the living God? I have so much Charity for you, as that you will grant this; and when the Lord hath said, Watch, and tells that He is at hand that betrays you, will ye go securely, and not take warning? O! What desperate folly would this be? 6. Consider what will come of it, if ye shall fall back, if ye slacken your ⟨p. 173⟩bent, and growing cold, turn again to folly? ye will wear out any bit of good frame that ye have attained: ye will blur and sully the real or supposed clearness of your interest, marr your Peace, and become in a manner more beastly and swinish in your sinful way then before; At the very thoughts whereof your hearts should scare, Nauseate and even grow sick. And what will be the upshot thereof? Either ye will repent, or never repent: If ye say, ye will repent; are ye sure that God will give you Repentance, If ye shall hazard on some sin? Are not many given up to hardness of heart, who never come to Repentance? Know ye what Repentance is? have ye not been already essaying and doing somewhat at Repentance; and have ye not found it difficult and hard to come by? And if ye shall sin yet more, will not Repentance be yet a greater, more difficult and hard work? and suppose ye should get Repentance, ye shall know the truth of that saying, Jer. 2. That it was an evil and a bitter thing to depart from the Living God, and that his fear was not before your eyes. O! what shame and confusion of face will it bring with it, to remember that we had so Many warnings from the word without, and so many Convictions and challenges from our conscience within, and that yet we went over them, and with a high hand went on in our folly: will those things be little, think ye? what pleasure or profit can ye have in those things whereof ye will be ashamed?

And hath there not been some stirring and stickling of desires to perform what ye have resolved and engaged to? And will ye break all these bands? Will ye repent and rue, that ever ye ingaged to God? If so, as ye notably play the fools, So the Lord will be about with you, and even spew you out of his Mouth, that ye may puddle your fill in the mire of sin. 5. Is there not a great bentness and propension in all naturally to turn again to follie? Is there not an evil heart of unbelief, ready to depart from the living God? I have so much Charity for you, as that you will grant this; and when the Lord hath said, Watch, and tells that He is at hand that betrayes you, will ye go securely, and not take warning? O! What desperat folly would this be? 6. Consider what will come of it, if ye shall fall back, if ye slacken your