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ANother instance of the native pollution of the will is, The contumacy and refrractioness of the will, it is obstinate and inpenetrable; The Scrip∣ture useth the word heart for the mind, will and conscience not attending to philosophical distinctions, so that the stony heart, the uncircumcised heart,
is the same with a stubborn and disobedient will. Thus the Scripture putteth the whole cause of a mans not conversion, of his not repenting upon the resractory will in a man especially, Levit. 26. 14. If ye will not hearken to me, and will not do these Commandments, vers 18. If ye will not for all this heark∣en to me, vers. 23. If ye will not be reformed, but will walk contrary to me; Observe how all is put upon the will, so that if their will had been pliable and ready, then the whole work of Conversion and Reformation had been accom∣plished; So Matth. 21. 29. The disobedient sonne returneth this answer to his father, I will not. This contumacy therefore of the will may be called the bad tree, that is the cause of all thy bad fruit; A regenerated will, a sanctified will, would make thee prepared for every good work. It is for want of this that all preaching is in vain, all Gods mercies, and all judgements are in vain; Why should not the ham∣mer of Gods word break it? Why should not the fire of it melt it? but because the stubbornness of the will is so great, that it will not receive any impression, 'tis called therefore a stony heart, not an iron heart, for iron by the fire may be mol∣lified and put into any shape, but a stone will never melt, it will sooner break in∣to many pieces, and flie in the face: Thus the will of a man hath naturally that horrible hardness and refractoriness, that in stead of loving and imbracing the holy things of God, it doth rather rage and hate with all abomination such things.