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V
II
R.
22.
Ephefanr,
Chap.
q..
124
the
guilt
of
fin,
but to
purge our confciences from dead works.
Thou
mutt
fide
corruption deftroyed; you cannot
have
two
contraries
to-
gether,
as
heat and cold, health and
fickneffe
,
in
what
meaftire
the
one commeth
in,
the other
is
weakned ;
It
is
impoffible
a
man fhould
be
in
Chrift
and
not have
his
old
lofts
mortified.
If
you be
in
Chrift,
regenerated
and made
a
new creature, then you
muff pull
downe
all
that
is
old, for what
ever
is
old muti
be
rejedcd
,
a
man muff bee
in
every thing
other
wife
then he
was
before
:
fo
that thou
muff
fay,
I
had
filch a
lu(f,
I
had delight
in
fuch and Inch
company, but now the
Lord
Jefus
Chrift
liveth
in
me, now
I
am
a
member of
Chrift
, I
muff
bid
adue
to
all
my former lugs
of
vanity.
Itdoth detelt
fuch
not
to
be in
Chrift, who
onely look
to
reforme
r(e
2.
a little
of
their outward converfation,
but
never put
offthe
inner man
No
hewho
of
corruption within them
:
they
are
angry for this or
that
deed
more
whatrefor-
exorbitant
,
but they repent not
of
that
Leprofie wherewith their
nterh
his Dili_
whole nature
is
infested
:
Now
Poch
perlons
arc like
the
Snakes
that
ward
courte.
caft
their coate, but
keep
their fling
and
poyfon
:
Whereas the
godly
they do
put off
that which
compaffeth
them about,
The Law
of
evil!
rcon,.7-
that
rebelleth
againft
the Law
of
God,
in their
minds
.and
affeílions.
Such
as
put offby
halves (like
Herod)
this
or
that
leffe
needful'
vfe
3,
member
as it
were, thisor that
fin
they do
not much carefor, but
they
Notwho
is
put not
offthe whole
man,
which
is
here
commanded. For the godly
buI
efocn
ed
man though he
finde
all
evill
prefent
,
yet
he
difalloweth
and
turneth
from all
of
it in
his
fpirit.
objet
1.
You
will fay,
This
is
impoiilible,
then
wee fhould have
no
fine.
vinfw.
Thou
muff
hate all, flrive again
(l
all;
Sin may
be
in
thee
as
a
chide
crept in,
but
itmuff
be refilled; and therefore let them think
of
it,that
ftoppage
is
no
payment;
fuch
as
would doe
Tome
things,that
they maynot
doe others
:
the whole
man
muff be
turned
to the Lord;
this
the Lord complayned of,
ler.3.
r
o.
They
turned
to me, but
not
with
their
whole
heart, but fainedly.
If
thou
findeft any
thing wherein thou
art willing
to
take
liberty to
thy
fclfe ,
certainly thou art
as
yet
an
old
man.
As concerningthe old
man.] Obf. That
whofoever
cloth
trrily
put
of
Dori.
theirinward
corruption,
wii,
and muß
likewife
pmt
away
evil
converfati.
fo piles,:
on.
Whofoever
purgeth the heart
will purge
the hand
likewife.
How
off,nwaron
d
cor
can
wethat
aredead
to
fin
live
yet therein
?
How
can
we that haveput
mile
putoff
off
our corruption converfe after
it
±
The old man
and hit
works
muß
be
''
eviti
put
of
together;
for
mencannot put
offtheir
fin,
while they put
not
off
Ró';6;.
the works of
it,
no more then men
can
quench
fire
,
while they bring
co1.3.;.
flore
of
fuel'to the
fire
:
and men cannot put
offthe inward corrupti-
on,nor
crucifie
this, but they
!hall
likewife crucifie
the
conlierfation
of
it.
As
a
man
that
cutteth down the tree, killeth the fruite
of the
tree
in
fo
doing.
Which
doth
convince fuch prefumptuous ones
as
feare
not
to
bee'Yfe.
lyers againftthemfelves,
who
will boaft
of
their hearts
as
good,While
their