v;6 Book.IV.Parc-3- Lookingunto1e(us. Cbap.J.Sect.9 ( good caveat for others, Remember now thy Cr~fltour in the dayes of liccle_,Iz,I. h h h'l h . d h d J 7 your , w 1 e t e evJ/ ayes com~ not, nor t eyears raw nith, when th,,u [bait Jlq, I ha''.!e no pleafure in them. Oh take heed of reprivjng your lufis ! let them not live till to morrow' now bring the~;n forth in the fight and prefence of God ; arraigne, condemne, ,crucifie , mortifie them whiles they might yet live. Surely this is tnJe mortification 1 when the body of finne dyeth as Chrifi dyed a violent death. · 3. Chrifis death was a liRgring death; he hung diverfe houres uponthecroffe. Fro• the fir/f houre to the ninth ho.ure, faith MJt,Z7·4r· jtfatthew; (i.) from our twelve to three, before he gave up the gholl:, So is our mortification a lingring death; fin is not put to death all at once, but languifheth by little and liqle; this is looked upon as one maine difference betwixt jnll:ification and fand:ification; the former is a perfeCt work, a'dmitting ofno degrees, but fo is not the latter; though a beIeever is freed perfeCtly from the guile offinne, ye~ not fo from the power ofit; finne dwelleth i1~ us,though it hath not altogether a dominion over us, R.0m 7·17· it is no more I th,zt do it, but .fin that dwdleth in me; like a rebelli. ous tehant, it keeps poffeffion in defpight oft he owner, till the houfe be pulied d0wn o\<er his head. True indeed, the body of fin in a regenerate foul hath received it's death-wound, and in that refpecr it may befaid to be dead, but it is not quite dead ; frill it fiirreth and moveth,dying b~t by degrees;what theApoi.He · _faith of the renewing of the new man, we may fay ofthe deJlroyiog of the old man, the inwttrd m,m is renewed da; b; dJ.y ; and ~Cor. 4· 16, the old man is defiroyed £hy by day: or as Pauifaid of himfelfe1' in refped: of his afflicrions, we may fay of a Chrifiian in refpecr 3. Cor,I 5. 3.~. ofhisfins, I dye day!J; there is not the mofl: fandified fo ul upon earth, but it hath fome remainders of corruprion left in it, which - God in his wife providence permitts for the trying , exercifing, and humbling ot our fouls, and for the making his owne rich gr .ce, in renewing and multiplying pa-rdons, fo much the more glorious. . · , And here is a ground of coHfolation to a drooping and deject. e<i foul ; fuch a one crycs out, a!& I feel the flirring .md vigourom. G~n l5 22, ~tClings of ji<~, and I mr; afraid my fin zj 711· 1 mortified:, tU R,btk_kfh [nid when foe felt the children jlrMgfi,g wit bin lm, ~~it be [o, why ' .i,!Tf}
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