Chap. z. Sett.4 Looking unio :;,'[tis. Book. IV. is regenerate ha th no more faculties in hisfoul then he had before his regener~ tion ; only in the work Q~ regeneration thofe abili~i~s which the rnan had before, are now 1mproved, and made fpmtual. and fo they work now fpiritually, which before wrought natu~ally. As in the refurrecHon from the dead , out bodies lhall have no more, nor other parts and members then they had before, only thofe parts and . members which now are natural, _ fhall the n by the power of God be made fpiritual, it is fown a I Cot. I $. 44; natural body, it is raifed a fpi ri tual br-d; ; ther: is a ;Wural body, ancl there is a fPiritual body; fo the fame faculues, and the fame abilities which before regeneration were bur natural, are now fpiritual, and work fpiritua ly; they are all brought under the government of the Spirit of Chrifl:; a lively refemblance of this .change in fhe faculties of t be foul, we may difcerne in thofe natu~al ahd fenfitive faculties, which we haye common wi th beails; as to live, to move, to defire, to feele, the beafis having ·no higher _principle then fence , ufe them fenfually; but a man enjoying the fame faculties under the' command of a reafonable foul, he ufeth them rationally: fo is it in a regenerate man; his underfianding, will, and affeetioas, when they had no other _- co_m~and but rea~on, he only u~ed them_ rationally, bu~ ~ow bemg under tht! gllldtng of the c, pmt ofChnfl:, they work fpmtu- .. aHy; and he ufeth them fpiritually ; _and hence it is that a ·regenerateman is every where in Scripture faid to walk_after the Rom.8. r. Spirit; tobe!edby t he Spirit, to walk_ in the Spirit, the SpiritGJl. ~.I81 t$. (by way ofinfufing or {bedding) gives power, an ability, a feed , . a principle uffpirituallife, whtch the foul had not before; and . from this principle of fpirituallife planted in the foul', flo ~ves or ' fprings thofe fpiritual motions and operations (as the Spirit·lead's . them out) according to the habite, or principle of the new ' creature, the divine nature, the fpirituallife infufed . · Come then, look to it 0 my foul, what is thy principle within? confider not fo much the outward actions, the outward duties ofReligion. as that root from whence they grow, that principle fron' whence they com~: are they fixed ones, fetled ones by way oflife in thee? Clocks have their motions, but they are not motions of life, becaufe they have no principles of life within. Is there ltfe within? th~n art thou borne again, yea even unto thee a cbilde is borne. This one evidence. - :r t 1 2. From
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