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E'phefion,
Chapo4.
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R.2z
Deli.
Buch
as
rein
Chrift mutt
put
off
their
whole
old
nature.
T.
What it
to
put
offthe
old
man.
Rom.ó.6.
Col.
;.
;.
n
C01.7.
I.
Rota.,
nu.
2.
The
way how
he is
to
be
pue
off.
Jer.;
t.;;:
Ezek.;ó.xf.
The
degrees
of
it.
YR.
A man cannot
be
in Chi
tR
who
feelech
no
change
in
himfclfe.
x
C
or.t.
t7.
leape-
Chriftians,
that
leape
over this winter
-like
worke
of
mortifica-
tion, will have
after_claps
that
(hall nip all
their
overhafty
procee-
dings.
A
building reared upon old ftuds will not Rand , no
more
will
there
femblances
of
holinefle
that
are reared upon unrepented
corruption.
Now
for the particulars, this 22.verfe fetteth downe three
things
:
r. The
duty
it felfe
of
mortification,
Put
off the oldman.
2.
The
manner,
Put him
offconcerning the converfation
which
ye
hadin him, for this
is
all
one
with
col.
3.9.
Put
of
the old
man with all
his works.
3.
The
defcription
of
this old
man
which
is
to be put off
from
this that
he
is
corrupted
by
deceivable
lulls.
Firft then we
fce,
That
rich
are
in
Chrifi mull
not
put
of
the
out.
ward
fhow,
and in
part
,
but the
inward
whole man
of
corruption
, the
old
man,
that
is, the old quality
of
our whole
nature mull
be
laid
glide.
Touching
this
three
things
:
s. What
it
is
to
put
offthe
old man.
a.
How
we come to put him off.
3.
What
degrees wegoo
by.
To
put off,
is
not to lay
afide
a
thing for
a
time
and take
it up again,
for fo
too manyput off
finne,
as
appeareth, which
at
night they
lay
afide and take up
in
the
morning;
but this
loth
note
all one thing
with thofe phrafes,
To
crucifie theflefh, Tomort
Je
our
earthly
members,
To
purgee
out
all
corruption
of
flefh
and
firit,
To offer
up
our
(elves
a
facri-
free
:
So to put
off,
is
to
forfake and
dye to
our
corruptions.
Now
the
way to put
offthefe lufts
is,
T.
To
get
a
fight
of
them by the Law,
For
by
the Law
commeth
the knowledgeoffinne,
Rom.7. Wee
muff
therefore
by the
benefit
of
this
glaffe fee
our corruptions, that
we may
after-
wards
caff
them from
us.
2.
Wee
muff
groane repentantly under the burthen
of
them
;
and
like
as
pores are
to thebody, by which
hurcfull humors
are evacuate, fo are thefe
fights
and penitent
teares
of
re-
pentance
to the foule,
for the
life
of
fin
doth
evaporate and
breathe out
bythem.
3.
We
muff by faith
hold the promifc
of God, who
bath pro
-
mifed
to
fanatic
us,
to
write
his Lawesin
our
hearts,
to
pure
out cleane
waters
,and
wa/h
its
from
doter
filthineffe
:
We
are
like children, we cannot make our
felves
ready,
neither
put
off
nor on,
unleffe
our Father
doch
help us.
3. For
thedegrees;
here we doe it
in
part,
in
heaven
wee (hallbee
cleane
rid
of
all
corruption.
Now
this
cloth
convince
too
many
that they
arc not
in
Chrift, for
they
are
the old men,
no changelings,as themfelves
will
affirme.
De-
ceive not
thy
felfe,
doe not thinke thou art
in
Chrift
,
if
thou
finder(
thou
art
net
is
new
creature;
wherever
Chrift
is
made righteoufneffe,he
is
made
fandification,
his
blood bath not
onely
power
to
take away
the-