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 walking with him, it is from hence, that they think God is not all-ſufficient; hence it is that he ſteps out of the ways of God, and lays hold on the creature, and there ſeeks help.

1ſt. There is a generation of men in the world that look not towards God at all, conſcious of nothing, becauſe they think they have ſufficient of their own; and therefore, when a man is brought unto God, the firſt work is to take him off from his own bottom, to ſhew him his own emptineſs, and the fulneſs and all-ſufficiency that is in God alone.

A ſecond ſort of men are ſuch as come in and perform many things, and bring forth ſome fruit, and become profeſſors of the fear of God; and yet they do it not thoroughly but by halves, and the cauſe of their doing ſo is, that they cannot apprehend God to be all-ſufficient.

A third ſort of men are ſuch as are regenerate which are yet ſubject to many ſlips, falls, and turnings aſide; and the cauſe of all this is, they apprehended not God to be all-ſufficient, and this was the ſin of the angels that