{"id":"5.6","chapter":5,"number":6,"text":"As for those wicked and ungodly men, whom God as a righteous Judge, for former sins, doth blinde and harden, from them he not onely withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been inlightned in their understandings, and wrought upon in their hearts; but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had, and exposeth them to such objects, as their corruption makes occasions of sin; and withal gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan; whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for the softning of others.","segments":[{"text":"As for those wicked and ungodly men, whom God as a righteous Judge, for former sins, doth blinde and harden, from them he not onely withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been inlightned in their understandings, and wrought upon in their hearts; but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had, and exposeth them to such objects, as their corruption makes occasions of sin; and withal gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan; whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for the softning of others.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"relations":{"lbcf1677":["5.6"],"lbcf1689":["5.6"],"savoy1658-modernized":["5.6"],"wcf1646":["5.6"]},"diffs":[{"source":"lbcf1689","type":"later","segments":[{"text":"s","position":6},{"text":"s","position":9},{"text":"s","position":21}]},{"source":"lbcf1677","type":"later","segments":[{"text":"s","position":6},{"text":"s","position":9},{"text":"s","position":21}]}],"page":null,"leaf":null}