ilz Epheflan.t,Chap, 2. VP. Confutation. ztom.r.:q. klzat.i8.3. John 6. :. çot,7-;o, the heart, minds, ftrength ; neitherdoth binde the action voluntary,but the whole frame ofthe foule. The Papifts fay it is often called fin not improperly, but as having refrflance to the Law of the minds and the LawofGod. Others grant that though in regardofthe guilt it is notfin to the regeneratein Chrift, yet ifit be confidered in it fell, it may fitly be called fin. vinfar. It is mediately in regard we all in Adam willing did thatwhich bath brought it upon us. Habituall averfion is fufficient, a. It is potentially approved,willed,affèd ed,&c. z. To let us fee it is not cuftome, or example, or imitationonely, wherebywe are (inners, as Pelagites taught : No, it is from inbredcor- ruption; our fountain is invenomed, and fo are all the ftreams that Ulm from us. a. To helpus in repentance; therefore the remainders of it continue though the guilt be removed, and the dominioncaptivated, yet they re- main,to teach us dill to bewaile our condition in thisregard,and to hum. bleus ; Wretched manthat Iam, who fhalldeliver me ? 3. Hence we are exercifed to tenue our repentance and a broken fpirit. 4. Hence we aregiven to fee inwhat need we ftand ofour Lord Jefus Chrift, and ofhim alone. S. This muff be confeffedoftheSaints in the prat life of repentance, and which all ofus muffeye and bewaile with Pauland ("wafts ; it being an excellent affurance °four true converfron, where this is bewáyled : The world and unregeneratemen in their profeflionof repentancenever rife to fee this or tobewaileit, whichis the fountain and fpawnof all un- righteoufneffe; wecannot think we are innocent. , 6. To reprove the Pharifaicall conceits ofmany, who were neveral- tred, though at a day old they werefinfull to death, yetafter manyfruits of this fecret fin they think themfelves righteous, though we charge them with this as finners from the womb, fuch whofe lives are deadin tufts ; why,theyare not the worft. Nay force fo fottifb that theywill not beleeve that children have any fin : why (fay they) what is more in- nocent then a little infant AndBoth not Chrift fay, Vnleffe ye become es one ofthep, ye cannot enter into the Kingdome ofheaven ? One of theft not limply, but taken ofone bleffed by me, having on them no aéluall guilr,and by my grace, having their native corruption pardoned. This teacheth thatgrace maketh children free from fin, and in Head ofink- riling wrath, heires ofheaven. Howmay we fearwhen our firft infan- cy was thus finfull . None complaineth, nonefeele themfelves loaden, none hungring and thirfting,every man carried away by Satan,rhatnone might return to Chrift and be faved. Theyhope they have good hearts to God, when indeeda veryprogenyofVipers. Doe I walk after the flefh, the luftofmy eye, flefhly minded, that is, not making my c: `ling arace ofconfcionable obedience, continuallywalkingbefore God, and ever andanon lifting up my heart for the Kingdome, labouring fer the bread thatperiJbethnot, po,ffej ing asiflpoffeffednot, but goe on, my heart and head full ofworldlycares; living in idleneffeand Tufts ofthe flefht there
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