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II
Vfe a.
To prove
we
are in
Chrit,
we
mut
ap-
prove our
felves
new
creatures.
Parts
of
the
new
creation.
2.
Degrees.
Signa.
Ephefians,
Chap.
_.
V
E
R,
t®.
who,though
there
is
fome
change, yet there
is
no new creature: there
is
in
force, the tongue tipt with
good words, but that
is
all
:
In
other
force
an
outward profeflion, but no
power
of
godlineffe, no
change
in
the heart
and reins
:
for whofoever harp Faith,
is
purified
in
heart,
Ads
e
5.9. In
other
forne,
a
forfaking
of
fins
by
halves,
as Herod
did
many
things ,Mark
6.ao. Apt
and
forward force
are
in
cenfuring
fuch
and fuch men
, fitting on
the
skirts
of
many
better
then
themfelves
:
But fo
long
as
the love
of
any
fin
is
retained, there
is
no
part
of
new
creation
in
that perfon.
Again,
if
we will
be affured,
that
we
by
Faith are
in
Chrift,
let
us
then
be able
to
prove
to
our
felves
that
we are new creatures, that
we
have found
the death
and life
of
Chrift, to
work
in us a
death
of
our
corruption,
and
a
life
of
righteoufneffe.
Circumcifion
is
nothing,
nor
ancircumcifron, but
a
new
creature,
Gá1.6.
r
5.
The
parts
of
this new creation
are,
hólineffe
of
the
fpirit,and
of
the
body,
m
nde,
will, aff
¿lions, and every
member
of
the
body;
he
rc
fanafied
throughout,
r
Theff
:5.
t
3.
In
a
naturali creature
a
part
of
the
body
may be
wanting, but
no fuch defeét
in
the
new creature.
In this
new creation, the perfon
begotten refembles him that
begets, in
his
will,
affe¿ìions, and
inclinations, holds
a
futable correfpondencie
ìo
him.
Let
men
try themfelves by this; fo long
as
men are
fo unlike to
Chrift,
and fo
contrary unto him,
and are
rather
like
to
Satan
in their
courfes,inclinations,and
affeCtions, it
may
be
Paid
to
them,as
Ioh.8.44..
to the
Jews,re
are
e
fehe devil
your
fat
her
,rather then
of
God,to
whom
they
are
in all
things fo
unlike.
There
are degrees
of
new creatures,
or
kindes:
Babes
in
Chrift, yong
ones
:
Old
men,
the
perfe¿tion
of
flature.
We
have
not
all
a
like
meafure
of
grace: but God
giveth
men gra-
ces
anfwerable
to
their callings,
affliCions,
and croffes: God
fits
his
graces
according to the exigent
of
the
perfon.
Again, God giveth graces and
ftrength according
to
the
means
of
growth
in
proportion. A
man living
long
under means,yet a Novice;
a
babe
,
in
refpe¿t
of
the proportion
of
the time
he
hash been
a new
creature, may be ftronger then he
:
as
the poor woman that
caft
her
mire
into the treafury, gave more then
the
ref},
not
in
quantity,
but
in
proportion. Thus
with
the
Hebrews,
chap.
5.rz.
The
figns
of
this new creation
are;
r.
Change;
as in
every generation
there
is a
great change,
as in
creation
of
the
world,
when
out
of
the
confufed
Chaos
was
drawn
this
beautifull frame
of
the world
:
Such
is
the change
in
forming
of
the
new creature in
Chrift,
of
a finfull,
ignorant,
and wicked
man,
he is
made
holy,
glorious, righteous, light
in
the
Lord.
2. Spiritual)
motion
in
the heart; for when the
feed
of
grace
is
caft
into the dead
foul
of
a
man, prefently
it
beginneth
to
move towards
God
; he
findes
a
heavenly difpofition
of
heart to
leek
God.
3.
A
hungring defire after
the
fincere milk
of
the
Word;
a note
of
a
new
born babe,
r
Pet.z.z.
4.
He-