4I2 The Life of Faith. the rat, andmaketh a defce`ive veffei : Or when one part of the foal is filledup before, it maketh a dcfeetive irnpreflion on the wax. Therefore theduties of inward felf-denial, !humility, mortification, and beavenlinefs, are almofi left out in the Reli- gion of the mofi. 17. Temptation, are ever more thong and violent againti Come duties, than againti others, and to tome fins, than to others. i S. Molt men have a memory, which more eafily retaineth tome things than others : efpecially thofe that are ben under- flood, and which molt affect them. And grace cannot live uponfargotten truths. re. There is no man but in his Calling, bath more frequent occafion for tome 'graces and duties, and ufeth them more, and hathmore occafions to interruptand divert his mind from others. 20. The very temperatureof the body inclinethCome all to fears andgrief, and others to love and contentednefa ofmind: and it vehemently. inclineth fome topaper, fume to their ap- petite, fome topride, and fome to idlenefs, and tome to lujf ; when others arc far lefs inclined to any ofthem : And many other providential accidents, dogive men more helps to one duty, than to another, and putteth many upon the tryals, which others arc never put upon : And all this fct together is the reafon that few Chriflians arc entire or eompleat, or efcape the fin and miferyof deformity ; or ever ufc Gods graces and their duties, in the order and harmony as they ought. IV. 1 ¡hallbe briefalfo in telling you what Inferences to raífe from hence for your infirut$ion. a. Youmay learn hence how to anfwcr thequeffion, whe- ther all Gods Graces live and grow in an equal proportion in all true Believers. Ineed to giveyou no further proof of the negative, than I. have laid down before: I. once thought othcrwife ; and was wont to fay, asit iscommonly -fail, that in the habit they arc proportionable, but not in the aá. But this wasbecaufeI:underflood not the difference between the lartieularhabits, and the firff ratlike/power, inclination or habit
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