V. s R 4. ephefians, Cháp.z. I 215 who hachmade and knoweth our natures , doth not expeét that wee fhould be free from that whichis a nature in us. This isaground ofdehortation to fightagainft andrenounce our own wits, and flefhly defires, refift our finfullTufts, as everwe will affure our felves our nature tobe regenerate. What a fhamefor Chriftians not to havepower over their inordinate Tufting in meats and drinkes ; when a dogwill be trained to ftand upona table and touch nothing which is notgiven him,: The tuft ofamans mind and will, will never be fatisfied, if it be ferved ; What was Ammon the better when he had gotten the will of filter by violence e Nay the veryTufting for a thing maketh a good man hedare not touch it, when now it isprefent: When David had a months mind tothe waters of Bethlem , hee would not touch it when now it was brought to him. This letreth us fee a different property ofonein Chrift, from him that is not : He that isle Chrift, is not aharbinger andpurveyor,making provifion to fulfillthe will ofthe flefh : fin bath not willing obeyfance performed to it,it raignethnot; in theother it bath his full (wing ; they are thrals andvaffals to theflefh: Hefees himfelfe in an evill way, he ima- ginethmifchiefe; hehardeneth hisface,andwillnot be aba/bed in his courfe: fin is fweet to him as a Lozing under his tongue ; it is meare and drinke tohave their wits: the godly overborne by rebellionof their wits, their hearts finite them , they goe forth and weepe : for as meate unwhol- fome, taken into a ftomach which bath ftrength ofnature, caufeth after vomit and fickneffe ; fo where there is this life ofgrace, this poyfon of fin once taken downe, cannot but make a fick foule. Laftly hereobferve,that even the childrenofthegodly,are by nature children ofwrath ; and not onely thofe borne outofthe Covenant, but even thofe to whom the promifes,as the Aponte wirneffeth,thatto them and the. :hildren belong theproms.fes, even thefe arebynature nobetter then others: the Apoftle at large doth prove thisconclufion , The lea, by naturebath nopreeminence above the Gentile, but ù underfin, andunder death, bathhis mouth flopped, from all plea for himfelfe , as well as the Gentile : andDavidconfeffeth this , that thoughhe cameof righteous Jeffe, yet, Hewacborneinfin, andconceivedin iniquity; for even righteous Parents dopropagate pofterity not by force ofregeneration,butcarnal! generation ; they beget not as new creatures inChrift, but as old, even in tAdam. But here it may beobjeaed that the Scripture telleth us, that God is the Godofthe feed of the godly : now there is no benefit, ifpardonof finand life everlafting belong not to Infants uponthis,that God is their God. And itis Paid, that thechildren ofone beleeving Parent areholy, which cannot be meant of legitimate, for fo they might be ifneither were a beleever; noronely amember of thevifible Church, for fo they might be ifneither were. Thisis true, and fo is the other , they fight not becaufe the refpeâs are divers : Parents therefore have a double perfon , the oneof .Adam, V2 the ¡7e 2. Renounce thy ownewill and 1 °as' , sa,n vfe 3. Diffeeencerof ce andothers;in refpeaofg,o. Pr y36.4. Prov.:y. a. Doff. Children ofall oai childrenofy wrath. Adm. '39. R"n`'3' Pfal.,,6. obtie i. t cnr.,.r4. Oble "' Aofir.
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