Chap.3 .Sect.9 LDskJng ttnto 1efus. Book IV. Parq_,. 675 in whom there is nature and grace, fl eih and fpirit, an unregenerate and a regenerate p:ut, if the fuperiour and better part be - willing (I meane advifedly and deliberate! y willing,with full confent of the inward man) though perhapll there may be fome relm9:ancy in the flefb;in the unregenerate part, yet this is f<tid to be a true voluntary aCt. So then w.ith the minde, I m] felfe ferve the law 6[God, but with my fiefb.the l11w of jin.-1 delight in the Rom. 7. t r\ law ofGoa after the inward mliln; but !fee another law in mJ mem- u,t3. bers, warring againft the law af my min de ; Paul was dead to fin according to the inward man, the regenerate part, though he found a reluCtancy in his outward members; and therefore his death to fin carryed with it the refemblance of the death of • Chrift it was a voluntary death. 2. Chrifts death was a violent death; he dyed not naturally, but violently. he wtU put to death in the ftefb , he wtU brought tU a 1 Pet 3 11 · Lambe to the Jl~ughter. So is our mortification , it is voluntary J [J, 53.7: ' in refpeel: of us, but violent in refpeel: offin ; and herein is the life (as I may fay) of this death : Oh when a man !ayes violent hands on his fins; when he cuts them off, being yet in their flower, and ftrength, and power, and vigour; when he pulls up thofe weedes before they wither in themfel ves, this is true mortification : many have left their fins who never mortified them; fo the aged adulterer hath left big luft, becaufe his body is dead: and hence it is that late repent.;nce in an aged jimur is fe!dome found true : alas he dyes not to Gn, but his fin dyes to him, I will not fay but God may call at the eleventh houre, though it be very feldome, but in that cafe you had need to be jea 'ous over your feLves with a godly jealoufie; what ? do you finde fome fins within you to be dead that were fometimes alive? 0 be inquil!tive, impannel a jury, call a coroners inquef1: upon your own fouls, inquire how they came by their deaths; whether thev dyed a violent or a natural death? fearch what wounds they have received, and whether they were deadly wounds, yea or no? enquire what weapon .it wast!:Jat flew them, whethertbe [word of the Spirit, that two edged fword, the Word of God? what purpofes, what re.folutions have been taken up, and levelled againft them? what prayers and teares have been fpent upon them r ifyou finde not thefe !ignes, you may give in your virditl:, that they dyed not a violent, but a natural death. And here's a · - - -- - R r r r 2 · - ·good
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