Spiritual Peace and Comfort. i 97 and our Wills themfelves which fhould command, areboth imperfec5t. 2 .And our Faculties that fhould be commanded and directed, are by fin grown im- potent and obftinate, and havé contra&ed a rebel- lingdifobedient difpofition. 3. And that degree of Grace, which the belt attain to in this life, is not fuck as wholly to overcome either the imperfection of the guiding and commanding faculty, or the re- bellion of the obeying faculties. Otherwife if our own Wills were perfect, and the rebellion of the in- feriour faculties cured : no man could then fay, The good that I Mould 1 do not, and the evil that I would not that I do. For the Will would fo fully command, that all would obey, and it felf being perfect., aid would be perfect. And therefore in Heaven it is and will be fo. I know Phylofophers conclude that all actsof the inferiour Faculties are but acts commanded by the Will : it fhould be fo I confefs : It is the office of the Will to command,and the underffanding to di., rcct, and the refit to obey. But in our ftate of fànful imperfection the foul is fo diftempered andcorrupt,ed, that the Will cannot fully rule thofe Faculties that it fhould rule ; fo that it may be Paid, I wouldforbear fin, but cannot.For i . The underftanding is become a dark, imperfect Director. z. The Will is become an imperfect Receiver of the UnderftandingsDirecti- ons; yea an oppofer, as being tainted with the neigh- bourhood ofa diflempered fenfe. 3 . When the Will is rectified by Grace, it is but in part : and therefore when Tau/ or any holy man faith, 1 would dogood,. and I Mouldnot do evil, they mean it not ofa perfect Willingnefs, but ofa fincere to wit, that this is thç;
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