Looking unto !fefiu. Eook IV. . . terrors and fpiritual agonies which are often before the work of regeneration ; they m~y be refembled to the heating of mettals before they melt, and are caft into the mold to be fatbioned; now by the help of natural re~fon one may _dtfcerne thefe. 2. Much i:nore may the firft motwns and operatwns ofgrace be difcerned by one trudy regenerate, bec2.ufe that in them his fpirit works together_with the Spirit ofChrift ; filch a~e forrow for Gn as fi n, and feekmg nghtly for comfort, an hungnng -<lefire afcer c.hri f!: and his merits, neither do I think it impoffible for a regenera te man to fe~le t(le very firfr illapf~ of the Spirit into the foul for it may bnng that fenfe With 1t felfe as to be.eafily difc~rned, although it doth not alwaies lee, nor perhaps ufually fee; -it is true that the giving of Spiritual life, and the giving of the fenfe of it are two difrinCl: ad s ofthe Spirit, yet who can deny but that both thefe a&s maygo together, though alwaies they do not go together ? howfoever it is, yet even in fuch perfons as in the in franc of regeneration may feele themfelves in a regenerate eftate : this conclufion frands firme, vi~. they may know .what is wrought in them, b~tt how it is wro~tght they c11nnot k_no'lp, nor underftand; we feele the winde, and perceive it in the motions and operations thereof, but the Originals of it we are not able exactly to defcribe ; fome think the beginnings of winds is from. the flux of the a ire, others trom the exhalations ofthe earth, but there .is no certainty; fo it is in the rna nner of this conception, .or paffi ve re~eption ofChrift and grace into our hearts; we know not how it is wrought, but it nearly concernes us to know that it is wrought ; look we .to this conformity, that as Chrifl was _conceived in UJ~ary by the holy Ghoft, fo, that Chrifr Qt: conwved in us , in a fpiritual fenfe by the fame holy Ghofr . 35J 2 . Chrifi was fand: ined in the Virflins womb, fo mufi we be fanCl:i fi ed tn cur felves, following the commandemenr of God; bt y e h,iy .u I t:m holy: fouls regenerate muft be fandified, every I John 3· 3 m.1n ( fanh the A pofll e) t ha t hath this hQpe in him puri fiet h him- !+. I • k 1 J fe~ ~ even as 'c ,_.. pure. · I noN our hearts are (as it were) feas of corru~ ions, yet _we muft day ly clea·nfe ~ur felves of rhem by lttcle and lntle: Chnll: could not have been a fit Saviour for us unleff.: ri rfr he had been fancbfied, neither can we be fit member~ unto him,.unlelfe we be in fome meafure purged from our Gnnes, and
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