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R.10.
%phefians,Chap.2.
in them, and that their (late
is
as
yet the
fame. You mull know, it
is
one
thing,
not
to have our
fins
mortified
;
another
thing,
not to
feel
any flirring and moving
of
it
in us.
It
is
Paid
truly then to be
killed
when
that
is
done, on which
it will dye
in
time,
though
it
take
on
a
while. He that feeleth
it
a
burthen,
defireth to be
let
free from it,
that reneweth
his Faith
to Chrift, who
is
made
of
God
his
fandifier,
and
reftethon
him
to
fee
all
thefe works
of
the
devil
utterly
diffolved;
he
is
a
new creature
in
atilt
:
For this contradiction
of
flefh
and
fpirit, argueth
a
double nature included,
whereof
none are partakers,
but
fuch
as
are
born
anew
of
God,
and
truly fanctified.
Obferve fecondly,
in
that
he faith,
We
are created
unto
good works;
DoEfr. z:
whet.
it
is
that
we come
to
have
good works,
even
when
we
are made
new
None
but a
in
aryl.
Before
that
a man
come
to
be new in
Chrift,
he
cannot
do
can do
good`
any
thing ,
not
oncly not meritorious,
but
any thing which
is
good.
works.
g
out
of
me
ye can
do
socking, Joh.
r
S.
s.
you
can
bear no good fruit,
fuch, with which
God the
husbandman
is
pleafed
:
Nay,
no deed
that
is
anfwerable
to the
Law
of
God,
can
be done
before
we be
a-
new created.
í
will
pot
my
¿iris
into
you,
and
take
away
the heart
of
flone,
and
give
you
hearts
of
fleth, andwill
make
yes
to
walk
in
my wages,
Ezek.36.
26,a7.
Thedoingof
Gods Commandements doth follow
the Circutrcifion
of
the heart: For the Law
is
fpirituall, and nothing
that
is
not fpirituall? good,
can
be conformable
to
the Law.
We
are
a
new
frame,
created
of
God to good
works
:
Now
therefore, till
a
man
come to be
a
new creature
in
Chrift ,
he
is
not able to
do
any
thing that
is
good. And
if
the things which
are necefïary conditions
Conditions
of
of
a
good work,be confidered,it
will
be
more
plain.
It mull
be done,
a
good work.
a.
From the heart.
z.
In
the
obedience
of
Faith.
3.
To
Gods glory.
For
of
the heart
Chrift
faith,
out of
me ye
can
do
nothing
:
and
lames,
chap.;.;
r.
Can clean water
come
out
of
a muddy
fountain
? Can
a
man
gather
figs
of
thorns ?
In obedience
;
for otherwife
it
is
not any
fervice
of
God
,
and
to
right
purpofc: All the contrary
difcourfe
doth
lean
upon
a
falfe fup-
pofition,
that there
is
a
ftrength
of
nature
in
innocencie, without
grace fuperaddcd ,
that
is
proportionable
to
work
a
work
anfwerable
to the
Law
:
For
this
is
falfe,
that
nature,
without the
grace of
the
Spirit,
is
able
to do
a
work
anfwerable
to the Law.
2.
If
this were,
yet
this
is a
fecond falle
fuppofition, that
thefe may be found any
where not weakned ; for this never was, nor never
(hall
be, God gi-
ving at once
with the
naturali
being,
a
fupernaturall quality
of
grace.
And
for
Gods
glory, theApoftle
is
eapreffe,
r
Cor.z
o.3;.
Whethep
3
ye
eat or
drink,
or
what
f
ever
ye do,
do
all
to
the glory
of
God.
This doth
ferve
to
confute
the Papifts, about their works
of
pre-
Yfa
r;
paration to
the
grace
of
God,
&c.
To
let
us
fee
when we come to work good works,
even
when we
Vfi.
z.
are made new creatures.
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