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VE
R.
tò.
pheftanr,
Chap.z.
26,
4. Defire
to draw
on others
to
grace.
Life,
when
grown to
ftrength,
is
generative
:
So
it is in
all
who
are quickened
with the
life
of
Chri(t,
they labour
to
breathe the
fame life
into others,
efpecially
when come
to
any
growth
in
grace.
This letteth
us fee
the wretched folly
and madneffe
of
many,
who
yfe
3.
will
not
flick
utterly to deny this point
of
themfelves,
they
are no M
n
that
rc
changelings,the men they were. And
wife ones
think
it
would
argue
to
cha+ige.
them
to be
of
great levity,
if
they
fhould be afhamed
of
the wayes to
which they
have
HI
accuflomed
thernfclves; they
count
is
fond
fickle
lightneffe,
not to
keep on
the
fame courfe,
to
be
more devout,
more
curious and
circumfpeet,
¡bye
of
their companions
to which
they
are
inhaun;ed; this they account
an unflaid fondneffe, and a fruit
of
an unfctled
brain.
Workmanfhlp
created.]
This doth
teach
us
,
That
in the
whole work
Doflr.
of
mans
regeneration,
he
doth
neither
confer any
thing,
neither
it
able
to
ro
converfion
refill thefeme
:
for
the
property
of
a
creation
is
this
that
it neither
neither
nfrr,
nor
is
holpen,nor
can
be refitted by
the thing created.
[Created]
is
taken
can
tern.
Two
-fold
P
ro
p perly, or
figuratively
Properly,
to bring thing
s
which
are
nor
,
citation.
to being
;
or
it fignifieth to
bring
things which having
a
being
,
to
a
better being
:
thus the Pfalmifl
prayeth,
Create
in
me a
clean
heart,
Pfal.
5
r
.
r
o.
but
here it
is
not
thus taken. But
as
in
the
creation,
fo
in
the
regeneration, the
Lord doth bring
us
from no being,
in
regard
of
grace,
to
live
the
life
of
grace, and therefore
his
creating force,
as
it
is
nothing furthered,
fo cannot it
be refitted
by us;
He calleth
the
things that
are not,
as
if
they
were,
Rom:4. t
y.
There
is
not
any
power
in
us
unto
ehefe
things.
The
natural/
man cannot
conceive
the
things
of
God.
None can
come to
me, nnle
ffe the
Father
draw him.
And therefore
the
Church
faith,
Camic.r.4.
Draw
me,
and
will
follow
thee. There
ù
no
power,
whether that which
fheweth it felf,
as
not
hindred;
as
fight
now looking
on a
thing;
or that
which though hindred,
it
felf
is
not
hindred,
as
fight
now lookingon
a
thing: or that
which though
hin-
dred,
it
doth not work,
yet the
power
is fafe; as a man
afleep,
though
his
feules
inward and outward
ceafe
to
work, yet
he
bath power both
ro
reafon,
to
fee, and hear.
Now
there
is
no
filch
power for the
life
of
God, which
is
the
foul
of
the
fpirituall man ,
from which
all
faculty Mould flow
,
as
the
powers
naturals
do from the
foul,
this
life
of
God
is
utterly
extinguifhed
:
Nay
there
is
throughout
an ut-
ter
enmity crept
in,
fo
that
the underftanding counts
as
foolifhneffe
the wildom
of God;
the
will
is
enemy
-like affected
to the
things
of
God.
Man
being able
to
adde nothing
,
yet he
may chufe
whether
he
ol;ea,
will
come.
As abfurd; we
are
a workman/hip
created
of
God:
Now
unleffe
we
.ei
for.
make
the creating power
of
God
refiftible
by the corrupt
will
of,
man, which
is
exceeding abfurd
;
we cannot think,
that howfoever
his
will
is
in it
fclfaffeéted,(for
fo we yeeld
it)
we cannot think how
he fhould have
power
in effect
to withfland.
A
a
True