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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
of
the
foule.
The
Papifts
fay it
is
often called
fin
not
improperly, but
as
having
refrflance
to
the Law
of
the minds
and the
Law
of
God. Others
grant
that though
in
regard
of
the
guilt
it
is
not
fin
to the
regenerate
in
Chrift,
yet
if
it
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 imitation
onely,
whereby
we are (inners,
as Pelagites
taught
:
No,
it
is
from
inbred
cor-
ruption;
our fountain
is
invenomed, and
fo are all
the
ftreams that
Ulm
from us.
a.
To
help
us in
repentance;
therefore
the
remainders
of
it
continue
though
the guilt be removed,
and
the dominion
captivated, yet
they
re-
main,to
teach
us
dill
to bewaile
our
condition
in
this
regard,and
to
hum.
ble
us ; Wretched man
that
I
am,
who
fhall
deliver
me
?
3. Hence we are exercifed
to
tenue
our repentance
and
a broken
fpirit.
4. Hence we
aregiven
to
fee in
what
need we ftand
of
our Lord
Jefus
Chrift,
and
of
him alone.
S.
This
muff be confeffed
of
the
Saints
in
the
prat
life
of
repentance,
and
which
all
of
us
muff
eye
and bewaile
with Pauland
("wafts ;
it
being
an
excellent
affurance
°four
true converfron, where
this
is
bewáyled
:
The
world and unregeneratemen
in
their
profeflion
of
repentance
never
rife
to
fee
this or
to
bewaileit, whichis the
fountain
and
fpawn
of
all
un-
righteoufneffe; wecannot think we are innocent.
,
6.
To
reprove the Pharifaicall
conceits
of
many,
who
were
never
al-
tred, though at
a
day old they
were
finfull
to death,
yet
after many
fruits
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,they
are
not the worft.
Nay
force fo fottifb
that
they
will
not beleeve
that
children have any
fin
:
why
(fay
they) what
is
more
in-
nocent then
a
little infant And
Both
not Chrift
fay,
Vnleffe ye
become
es
one
of
the
p,
ye cannot
enter into the Kingdome
of
heaven
?
One
of
theft
not limply, but
taken
of
one bleffed by me, having on
them
no
aéluall
guilr,and by my grace, having
their
native corruption pardoned.
This
teacheth
that
grace maketh
children
free
from
fin, and
in Head
of
ink-
riling
wrath,
heires
of
heaven.
How
may we fearwhen our
firft
infan-
cy was thus
finfull
.
None
complaineth, none
feele
themfelves
loaden,
none hungring
and
thirfting,every
man carried
away by Satan,rhat
none
might return
to Chrift
and be faved.
They
hope
they
have good
hearts
to
God,
when indeed
a
very
progeny
of
Vipers.
Doe
I walk after
the
flefh,
the
luft
of
my eye, flefhly minded,
that
is,
not
making my
c:
`ling
a
race
of
confcionable obedience, continually
walking
before God,
and
ever
and
anon lifting
up
my heart
for
the
Kingdome,
labouring
fer
the
bread
that
periJbethnot,
po,
ffej
ing
as
ifl
poffeffed
not,
but
goe on,
my
heart
and head full
of
worldly
cares;
living in idleneffeand
Tufts
of
the
flefht
there