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Many convin-
ced
to
be
ftill
old men.
Prex.
Caution
for
comfort
of
the
godly.
,Ephe¡ians,
Chapuz.
V
H
R.10.
fliewed
in
every new creature.
Look
at Paul, in
fiead of
perfecuting
the
Goff
el,
Gal. 1.23. when
he was
converted,
he
preachedthe
Cop!
in
ficad
of
perfecuting
the
profeffors
of
it,
he didwith
joy
fuffer
for
it,
and did
gather with
diligence
to
relieve the
neceflities
of
Chriflian
profeffors
:
In
fiead
of
converfing
in
the
flelb,
he
had
his
converfation
in heaven
while he was on earth,
Phil.3.20.
If
one be
ri
fen
with
Chriff,
then
he
will
ftek
the
things
above,
Coloff.
3.1.
of
which
he
bath
been
careleffe; then he will labour to mortifie his corruption which
he
hath
cherifhed,
then he
will
think,
fpeak, and work
rightcoufly:
For
as
the naturali
life
doth work forth
in his aetions,
in fenfe,
motion,
breathing,
and
in
difcourfe ; fo this life
of
God
cannot be idle,
this
in
the new creature
of
the
heart will be working, breathing
it
felt
in
fpi-
rituall
fighs and
groans. And look
as
on
the
contrary,
the old
man
hath
his
works
;
Ce1.3.9.
Put
o.
fthe
oldman, with
his works
:
fo hath
this alto.
Grace
it
is
called
a Law,
Rom.
7.23.
becaufe it
doth
com-
mand
in
a
man, he cannot
fin,
for
the
feed
abideth,
t
Joh.3.9.
And
fet
him about works
which
are futable
to
it;
What
are thefe
works
!
The
putting
off
all evil, flying
the corruptions
in
the world through
loft,
:Pet.
1.
q..
keeping our fouls
unfpotted
of
the
fins
of
the times,
the
working
of
righteoufneffe
:
Now
all righteous duties are,
either
obe-
dience
to
things commanded
, or
Chriftian
fuffering
for Chrifl,
and
for the Gofpcl;
in
both
is
the
new creature imployed,
Many hence are reproved,
who
will dream
that
their
hearts
are
good, while their
aEtions
are
naught;
as
if
God
did
make
a
new
creature
for old works:
if
yee
were
of
god
yee
would
do
the
works
of
God.
Again ,
it doth
let
us
fee,
how
we may know
that
we
are made
new creatures, even
thus,
if
we have
good
works
:
God
cannot
have
the heart, while the
devil
haththe
works
;
following our own
hearts,
fwearing,
lying, &c.
A good
tree will have good fruit; out
of
the
evil
heart come adulteries, murthers,
and idle talking, fellowfhip
with
the
unfruitfull
works
of
darkneffe. As
is
the fountain,
fuch will be
the
ftreams
that
flow
from it.
When
corruption fo
far
prevaileth,to carry men after the
pleafures
of
fin, vanities
of
the times, eagerly
feeking
the commodities
of
this
life,
with
negle&
of
things heavenly; thefe cannot
Hand
with
this new
man.
Many think,
if
they
can
the
Creed,
have
Chriftendom,
be or-
derly Churchmen,fay
the
Lords Prayer,receiveat Eafter
;
they
think
this is
Chriftianity
enough
:
and
that
now they have learned Chrift,
and are
become new men. As for putting
off
finfull
lulls, to which
naturally
their
hearts incline,
they think it
needleffe
; and
that
God,
who hath made,
and
knoweth our
natures,
doth
not expert
that we
fhould be free
from
that which
is
a nature in
us
:
But this
is
to get
our
Lefton
by
roat ;
he
that
crucifiech
not
his
naturali
lifts
and
inclinati-
ons, hath no union
nor
communion
with Chrift.
But
if
any weak foul fhould
think , becaufe they
feel fin raging
in
them,
and themfelves captive
to it, that
therefore
fin is
not
mortified
in
1