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V.
s
R
4.
ephefians,
Cháp.z.
I
215
who
hach
made and
knoweth
our natures
,
doth
not expeét that wee
fhould be free from
that
which
is a
nature
in us.
This isa
ground
of
dehortation to fightagainft and
renounce our own
wits, and flefhly defires, refift our
finfull
Tufts,
as
everwe will
affure
our
felves
our nature to
be
regenerate.
What
a
fhame
for Chriftians not to
have
power over their
inordinate
Tufting
in
meats and drinkes ;
when
a
dog
will be trained to ftand upon
a
table
and
touch nothing which
is
notgiven
him,:
The
tuft
ofa
mans 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 very
Tufting
for
a
thing maketh
a
good
man he
dare not touch it, when now
it is
prefent: 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
a
harbinger
and
purveyor,making
provifion
to
fulfill
the
will
of
the
flefh
:
fin
bath not willing obeyfance
performed to it,it
raigneth
not;
in
theother
it
bath
his full
(wing
;
they
are thrals and
vaffals
to the
flefh: He
fees himfelfe
in
an
evill
way, he
ima-
gineth
mifchiefe;
he
hardeneth
his
face,and
will
not
be
aba/bed
in
his
courfe:
fin
is
fweet to him
as a
Lozing under
his
tongue
;
it
is
meare and drinke
to
have
their wits: the godly overborne by rebellion
of
their wits, their
hearts finite them
,
they
goe forth
and weepe
:
for
as
meate unwhol-
fome,
taken into
a
ftomach which bath ftrength
of
nature, caufeth after
vomit and
fickneffe
;
fo
where there
is
this
life
of
grace, this poyfon
of
fin
once
taken
downe, cannot but
make a fick foule.
Laftly
here
obferve,that
even
the children
ofthe
godly,are
by nature
children
of
wrath ; and
not
onely
thofe
borne
outofthe
Covenant, but
even
thofe to whom the
promifes,as
the
Aponte
wirneffeth,thatto
them
and
the.
:hildren
belong
the
proms.fes,
even
thefe are
by
nature
nobetter
then others:
the Apoftle at
large
doth prove this
conclufion
,
The lea,
by
naturebath
no
preeminence above the Gentile, but
ù
under
fin,
and
under
death, bath
his mouth
flopped,
from all
plea
for
himfelfe ,
as
well
as
the
Gentile
:
and
Davidconfeffeth this
,
that though
he came
of
righteous
Jeffe,
yet,
Hewacborneinfin, and
conceived
in iniquity; for
even
righteous
Parents dopropagate pofterity not
by
force
of
regeneration,but
carnal!
generation
;
they beget not
as
new creatures
in
Chrift,
but
as
old,
even
in
tAdam.
But here it
may be
objeaed
that
the
Scripture telleth us,
that God
is
the
God
ofthe
feed
of the godly
:
now there
is
no benefit,
if
pardon
of
fin
and
life
everlafting belong not to Infants upon
this,that God
is
their
God.
And it
is
Paid,
that
the
children
of
one
beleeving Parent are
holy,
which
cannot be meant
of
legitimate,
for
fo
they might
be
if
neither were
a
beleever;
nor
onely
a
member
of
the
vifible
Church,
for
fo
they
might
be
if
neither were.
This
is
true,
and
fo
is
the other
,
they
fight
not
becaufe
the
refpeâs
are divers
:
Parents therefore have
a
double perfon
,
the one
of
.Adam,
V2
the
¡7e
2.
Renounce
thy
ownewill
and
1
°as'
,
sa,n
vfe
3.
Diffeeencerof
ce
and
others;in
refpeaofg,o.
Pr
y36.4.
Prov.
:y.
a.
Doff.
Children
of
all
oai
childrenofy
wrath.
Adm.
'39.
R"n`'3'
Pfal.,,6.
obtie
i.
t
cnr.,.r4.
Oble
"'
Aofir.