88 Ephejana,Chap.r. VE11,7, Chrift the ftronger entreth ; The confcience is made a fweet com- panion andcomforter,rather then a rigorous keeper : Being juflified by faith we are atpeace. Wherethe Kinghath releafeda prifoner, the Jay- for can have no further power over him ; for he is but to keepe him during the Kings pleafure. Againe, by grace, God doth fet our wils at liberty ; fo that finne cannot raigne mus as heretofore, Rom. 6. Grace which fighteth againft the lufts ofthe flclb, and will not let us come under thepower ofany thing ; yea, the world is crucified tous, and we to theword : For as when health commeth, a man beginneth to walke abroad, and doe fuch things as he couldnot flirre to, whilehis fickneffe did keepe him under ; fo it is here. Finally, we are fo fet free, that we can fuller nothing which our wils have caufe to be unwilling with, all things being fuch, as fhall worke together for owgood. Count it all joy whenye fall into temptation, which is the height of freedome, that fofarreforth as we are regenerate, we cannot Puffer anything, though all the creatures fhould confpire, but what our ównewils like well of; yea, aske by prayer, in fome fortat Gods hand. But it may be objeaed, that thedevill doth ílî11 prevaile againft us,that finne leadeth us captive, Ergo, we are not delivered. I anfwer, redemption is double; either, as I Paid, begun, or perfeaed : Thefe things Hand not with full and perfea redemption, but they mayRand with it while it is in the beginnings. We mull diflinguifh the power ofthedevill,to hold us under condem- nation, from his power of moleftation; and we mull diflinguifhthe powerof finne raigning over men,withwilling fubjeaion,and ufurping over him,as now Pet free, and makingrefiftance. In the formerrefpeas, weare redeemed and delivered, from what time we beleeve ; the latter, we are fo fubjea to, that they !hall be more and more diminifhed. TheVfe ofthis is, firft to flirre us up to thankefgiving, even to fing with u1-tary our Magnificat to God ; What caufehave we to praifehim who bath vifited and redeemed us with fucha redemption r We fbould every one fing the Fong of uríofes, to fee our felves thus delivered. Let us remember how this lull, and that paffion, werewont to tyrannize inus; Let us remember when it was death to us to be held to duties ofgodlinefre, in which is theexercife of true freedome; Let us thinke of thole times wherein finne did hold us foTaft, that though we faw themifchiefe of it, and purpofed fometime a new courfe, yet wecould not butreturne to it, as before ; Let us remember when feares ofcon- fcience and death have held us in thraldome, that thefe may fet an edge upon our thankfgiving. Left we fhould forget this duty to God, God hath left fome trouble, fome remainders ; like the weather in ache of awrefted joynt, when nowit is reftored :1-low thankfully wouldwe take it to be fet free from the darkeneffe, deadneffe, fenfuality, earthly mindedneffe, which we frill finde, as a clog and chaine to the fpirits ofus a If this would be fo gratefull to be let free from circumflances, which moleft us onely; how much more is that our fubftantiall deliverance from the. revenging juflice of God, from the power of
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