318 rremifals. What difference +s there between the Conflict Serra. 13, and a 1,16.4, two contrary Nations flrugling each wich other ? Ge n, z 5, v.22,23. Oh char we had all her wifdom and fuccefs.. The dic771 why IL s Co, will appear in the Explication and refolucion of the fpecial Cafe of Conicience alfigncd : which therefore here I pafs. Before I propound the Cafe, let me premife fotne particulars prepa- ratory, as a Key of Explication. I. As the great, fo the little World (man) is made up of Contraries The outward -man of contrary Elements, hu:nours,heatth and fickne(s; the inward-man of contrary Principles, reafon and patfion, Grace and. Corruption, Conicience, and Senfe. 2. Man is both an Astor in, and a Theatre of chegreateft action and noblefl confli& in the World, though in-wily invilible,and there- fore not fo much obferved. Prov. 16.3 z. He that conquers himfelf is a nobler Heroe, than Alexander who conquered a great part of the World. 3. In the flare of Innocency there was noconflì &, in the flare of Glory there will be no conflidt, there being do corruption to combate with Grace. In a flare of Minority (as in Infants and Fools) there is no confiie} till reafon begin to dawn, and with it Confcience to a &uate. common Principles againfl the motions of innate corruption.In a (late. of corruption thereis no fpiritual conflié, becaufe there is no renewing Grace to combate wich Corruption that ftrong man that keeps all in.. peace till a f r nger than he. comes, Luke I I.21,22. 4. The natural conflia is in every godly man, the fpiritual confli& is in no wicked or natural man. This I note, to allay the fears ofdroop- ipg Saints, who finding a conflict} between Confcience and Corrupti- on, conclude they are in the flare of Niture, and.fearch not for the sonfliec between Grace and Corruption. This is, as if a man fhould .conclude he is a Beall, becaufe he bath fenfe like a Beall, nor confi- dering that he bath reafon fuperadded, which a Beall is not ca= , gable of. 5. There is a vafl difference between the natural and ..te úpirituat eonfli &. This will appear in the refolucion of the cafe. 6. The miflake about there two conflid}s. r. Undoes natural men, who feeling a Combate in themfelves,, fondly apprehend it to be the fight between the fle(h and the fpirir, and thereup ©n ref fecure in a na- tural efiare. a,Ir troubles regenerate perfons,and that in reference both to duty and comfort, making them drive heavily, becaufe they doubt' whether. they be dfracliter or c' jpti, ,i.. 7.As
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