one member of the body, fo neither doth mortification leave life in any one member of fin; my meaning is, it takes away the commanding power ofiin in every member: mortifie your members which are npon the earth (faith the Apoflle) your memberJ not one member; and then he infrancet~, fornictttion, nnclean»E:{[e, inordinate ajfeCfions, evil concupifcencr, and covetou(neffe. which~ Colof3·); idol.rtry. Chrifiians that have .their interdl: in .chrifts death, rnufr not only leave pride, but lufr; not only uncleanne1fe, but covetoufneffe ; fin rnuft not only be flaine in the un. derfianding, butin the will and affeCtions; mortification is general. you will fay tbis is an hard faying, doth any man, any beleever, leave all fin? yes, in refpeCI: of ruling power he leaves all fin ; all grot:fe fins, and all other Gns ; only with this difference, all gro1fe fins in praCl:ife and aCtions, and all frailties aad infirmitie5 in allowance and affeCl:ion. It is good to obferve the degrees of mortification: the firft is to . forbeare ·the praCI:ife of gro1fe and fcandalous fins in word and deed, !f any man affend Jam 3 z· not in word the[11me u a perfea mlln ; and this perfeCtion by the . ' ' ' help of grace a godly man may reach to in this life. The fecond is to deny confent and will to all frailties and infirmitiei, the evilwhichlwouldnot, thatdol, Rom.7. 19. Imaydoevil, andR yet I would not do evil, there is a denya! ef it in the will. The om. 7 . ' 9 • third is to be free from any fcttled liking ofany Civil motion : not enly to deny confent and will, but alfo to dem the very thot:~ght or imagination fetled ly and deliberately to delight in fin, I knbw to be vo~ d ofall evil motions arifing from the flefu, or ofall fud~ den paffions within, or of all {udden delights in fin, or of all deadneffe or backwardnet:fe to good thing> b, reafon of fin, it is an higher pitch than any man can couch in this prefent world: fot\1'hiles we live, the law of members will be work:ing, and we ~all Iinde caufe en~ugh to com.plaine of: body of death ; only tf when thefe mottons firft anfe; we prefently endeavour to quench them, to reject them, to deteft them, and t0 caft them away from .us, therein is true mortification; and thus far we rnuft look to 'it, to ~eave a.ll !in. 3· True mortification is not without' its prefent combats, though at I aft: it conquer, many a time corruption ma ybreak out, and luft may be ftrong and violent ; but this violent luft is only for
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