Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or A brief discourse, wherein Christs parable of…

4. They are very bold and hardy, they fear no dangers that are before them, and will therefore run themselves upon any mischief: If their way be through fire and water, they are not daunted at it, hence our proverb, foolhardy. So are sinners; warnings, threatenings, terrors of the Almighty fright them not; though the sword of Divine vengeance hang over their heads, though God's judgments are abroad in the world, and their wicked companions are swept away thereby, yet still they hold on their course, hence compared to the horse, Jer. 8: 6: Every one turneth to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Of whose rashness see, Job 39.21: &c.

4. They are very bold and hardy, they fear no dangers that are before them, and will therefore run themselves upon any mischief: If their way be through fire and water, they are not daunted at it, hence our proverb, foolhardy. So are sinners; warnings, threatinings, terrours of the Almighty fright them not; though the sword of Divine vengeance hang over their heads, though God's judgments are abroad in the world, and their wicked companions are swept away thereby, yet still they hold on their course, hence compared to the horse, Jer. 8: 6: Every one turneth to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Of whose rashness see, Job 39.21: &c.

5. They are incapable of receiving counsel, ⟨p. 142⟩or being convinced of their foolish and mad ways: There is no persuading a fool or madman with reason, for wisdom and counsel is out of his reach: If you fetch all the Topics in Logic, and all the Tropes and figures in Rhetoric, you may move a stone sooner than him from his notions: Thus unregenerate men are unteachable; you may teach an Ox and an Ass sooner,