3 2 2 What difference is there between the Conflict Serm 33 z. it extends alfo to,every aét of piety, and Chanty ( efpecalty t more fpiritual ) Rom.7.ZI. For which the natural man ha_h no contli¿ }, ( but againtt them ) unlefs it be co (top the mouth of confcience in- lighcned, &c. Nor indeed Both he know experimentally what fpiritual acts of Piety are. But the regenerate find it by contianc experience; Faith and Unbelief, Humility and Pride- ever oppofing and cou ^ter_ working each other : whence he is forced to cur his way through his Enemies, and to difpute it flep by flep.Others may feak, but he (lcives, L.yb 13. 24. and tikes ,the Kingdom of Heaven by an holy violence, IW.4t.I I .I 2. in fpiglìr of fpiritual Enemies chat way-lay him within and without. 2. As to the extent of Duntion of the War, which being in the Re- generate irreconcileable mutt needs be interminable ; like the War be- tween the Romans and Carthaginians that was intayl'd to Pofterity : or as fire and water will fight for ever if together for ever. In the natural man (conrrariwife) the quarrel is foon took up,as between the Romans and other Nations ; there being not that Antipathy between Reafon and Corruption,as there is between Grace and Corruption. VII. They differ in the concomitants and confequents of the fight. And I. The fight in natural men may (land with the confiant pradtice of,and living in fin, again(} the light ofConfcience.Godly men fin more with knowledge, but wicked men more againtl knowledge. He that is born of God do:h not commit fin, that is, make a trade of living and lying in known fin, I Joh.'.9. 2. The fight in the Unregenerate hinders not the perfe&ion and confummation of fin in the antecedent deliberation and purpofe,in the prefent delight and complacency, and the following pertinacy and im- penicency. Inftance in Saul, Herod, Jndae, and others. But the Spirit by its coafli61 breaks the power of fin in all there in the Regenerate, that they can neither do good as they would, nor fin as they otherwife would, Gal.5.17. 3. The fight in natural men feeks only the repre(lïon, not the fup- prellìon of fin, to lop the fuperfluous branches,not flub up the root ; to charm the Serpent, not ro break its head. But the fpiritual fight Peeks the full mortification and abolition of fin, Rom.6.6. ( hatred Peeks the deftruc`tion of its Enemy, I Sam.24.19. and I John 3.15.) and the cornpleac perfedlion of Grace, though not attainable in this'- life, Phil. 3. verf. lo. -- 14. This for the firft branch of Wifdom, which teaches co difcern between the natural and the fpiritual Con- The
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