. Foure godly and learned treatises ... ^>. 168 Hm to mortify eviUconcupifcencV* means how to fupprefle them, there be ftrong reafonsin the Word of God for them.: Let them fearch thegrounds they have for the committing of thofe lufts,and it will be an effe&uall meanes for the mortifyingof them: If mens judgements were redified to feetheir follies, they would change their courfes, andturne ihe bent of their affe&ions another way; Ifhould deliver many thing unto you in this kind con-cerning mortification, to let it be your care, that itmay work upon your inward affe&ion, that you maymake it p
. Foure godly and learned treatises ... ^>. 168 Hm to mortify eviUconcupifcencV* means how to fupprefle them, there be ftrong reafonsin the Word of God for them.: Let them fearch thegrounds they have for the committing of thofe lufts,and it will be an effe&uall meanes for the mortifyingof them: If mens judgements were redified to feetheir follies, they would change their courfes, andturne ihe bent of their affe&ions another way; Ifhould deliver many thing unto you in this kind con-cerning mortification, to let it be your care, that itmay work upon your inward affe&ion, that you maymake it profitable unto your owne foules, and thatyou doe not let it pafle from you without doing yougood. The Word of God which you heare,is not loft, kfhall certainly doe you hurt, ifnot good, it fhall har-den if it doe not fof ten : It is an ill figne if a tree doenotbudin theSpring5*butto/<?€ it without leaves in. the Winter is no wonder at all: So for any to heare theWord of God powerfully preached, and not to haveMenditauon good
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