was once more by the experience of Davids innocencie reduc'd unto the same acknowledgement. The people in one place would have made Christ a King, so much did they seeme to honour him, and yet at another time when their over-pliable and unresolved affections were wrought upon by the subtile Pharises, they cried against him, as against a slave, Crucifie him, crucifie him; so may it be in the generall services of God, men may have wishings and wouldings, and good liking of the truth, and some faint and floating resolutions to pursue it▪ which yet having no firme roote, nor proceeding from the whole bent of the heart, from a through mortificati∣on of sinne and evidence of Grace, but from such weake and wavering principles, as may bee perturbed by every new temptation, like letters written in sand, they vanish away like a morning dew, and leave the heart as hard and scorched as it was before. The young man whom for his ingenuity and forwardnesse Christ loved came in a sad and serious manner to learne of Christ the way to heaven: and yet wee finde there were secret reservations which he had not discerned in himselfe, up∣on discoverie whereof by Christ he was discouraged and made repent of his resolution, Mark 10.21, 22. The Apostle speaketh of a Repentance not to be repented of, 2 Cor. 7.10. which hath firme, solid, and permanent rea∣sons to support it, therein secretly intimating that there is likewise a Repentance, which rising out of an incom∣plete will, and admitting certaine secret and undiscerned reservations, doth upon the appearance of them, flag and fall away, and leave the unfaithfull heart to repent of its repentance. Saint Iames tels us that a double-minded man is unstable in all his wayes, Iam. 1.8. never uniforme nor constant to any rules. Now this division of the minde stands thus; The heart on the one side is taken up with the pleasures of sinne for the present; and on the other with the desires of salvation for the future; and now ac∣cording 0