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2.
Examination
of
what
we
do
in
f
rules.
r.
a.
4.
5
To
do
a
duty
after
any
fort.
`Dori.
A
corrupt
will
&mind fway-
eth the unre-
generate.
Aft, t4:t6.
G
al.
t.
4,
x
r.
Vfer.
A
triall of
re.
generation.
Ephe
/ianr,
Chap.2.
R,4,.
much
by the worke
externall ,
as
the
ftate
of
the
perfonworking.
Hee
hath power, who worketh from
a
living heart , whofe labour
is
within
as
well
as
without, who (hikes
at
the inward rootes
of
evill, whofe
obe-
dience
is
univerfall; An
hypocrite
is
worfe
affeeted in
good ,then
a
good
man
in
evill, he hath
no
minde
to that good
he
doth
,
but
liketh
better
of
the contrary
;
a
good
man
doth
grieve at
the
evill
he doth,and
loveth
the contrary.God regardeth not
fo much aetion,as vigour
inthe
a
lion:
fome doe (trive all for formalitie ; fome don count
it
Religion
enough
to
raile
on
idleneffe and
formalitie
, and
to
bec able
tQ
difceurfe
of
a
queflion.
Wee
are
hereby taught not to
reft
in
any
outwAighr,
nor
content
our felves with the
workedone, but
examine
how we doe
things.
r.
That
we doe every
thing
for
God, praeilf
ng
the
6r1í
Comman-
dement
in
every
one,
doing
all
for love
of
God
,
not putting
him off
with every
fleightand
forty fervice,
as
if
any
thing
were good
enough
for him.
a.
To
doe every thing
as
before
God,
fo
as is
befeeming
the
purity
of
his
nature fpirituall
áííd
holy,with
reverence
of
his
glorious
pretence.
3.
To
makefore we
grow by
our duties
we undertake all true
grace
groweth by
the exercife
Cif
it.
4.
To
labour againft
hypocrite,
heavineffe, deadneffe, and
our
par.
ticularcorruptions
;
and
to
fhakeup our
felves
when we
goat
about
buff.
neffeofthis
nature.
.
To
thinke
how
far
civil!
men may
goe,to
doe
that
and
more;
for,
.ualitercunquedefu,aili,is
the
intent and utmoft marke
of
formalifts.
We
muff put
to
our
heft
affeaions
and our delight
in
the
full bent
and
ftrengeh; otherwife, it were
eafie
being
a
Chriflian, might
we
under
this
profeffion let our graces
lode
as
we would.
Here wemay further obferve, what it
is
that
heareth
Tway
in
theum
regenerate,
it
is
his
corrupt will and minde,for fo the Apoflle
here
faith,
in fulfilling
the
will
of
thefleJb
and ofthe mind
;
fo Patti fpeaketh
Rom.7.5.
When
we
were
inthe
flefh,
7"ií.3.3.
Carried about
with
divers lulls;
and Peter
faith,
thofe
that
are
not
called
effeetually, they
are intheir
converfation conformed to lufts
of
ignorance:
Thus the
fecure
Gallants
life
is
fquared, following the fight
of
their owne
eyes,
walking in
their
ovine
wayet,
as
vlels
14.
r 6. till
God
give repentance
,
they
fly
like
fhecpe, in
the
paths
of
their owne concupifcences
;
as
on
the
contrary,
They
that
are
in the
Spirit,
walke
after
the
Spirit,fo
they
that
areinthe
flefb,
after
the
lufls
ofthefefh.
It
convinceth
to
us
whether
we
arc in our naturali eftate
or
no;have
an
eye
to thecourte
and ftraine
of
our will
and mind
,
what
is
it
we
fpeci.
ally
affect,
defireand feeke after ;
This detceteththe
vaine prefumption'
of
many,
who
thinke
if
they
can
the Creed,
have Chriftendonn;
be or
deny
Churchmen,
fay
the Lords Prayer,
receive
at Eafter,thinke
thlsie
Chriftianiry enough;
as
for
putting
off
their corrupt
nature and. tnfull
Tufts
,
to
which naturally their hearts incline,
and
whereunto
they
live
in
perpetuall flavery andbondage,
they
thinke
it
needleffe,and that
God
who
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