State In. r n C •h . · · • 1· 1ptu 01 ' e new nature g1ven tn regeneratton, w llch has its own holy lut1iHgs :;.s well as the corruDt old nature has its fiillful luHings, Gal v. 17. The will~· as renewed. in– dines and points towa;ds God, and godiinefs. Wh.:n God made man, his will, in refpe·~ of its intention, was di .. -retled to/wards God as his chief end; in refpeel: of its choice it pointed towards that which God willed. When man un· made hirnfelf, his will was framed into the very re\·erfe hereof: he made himfdf his chief elld, and his own will . hi:; law. ·But when man is new nH.de, in regeneration, grace retlifies .this < i~ order in fome mu::fnr~, tho' not perfectly · indeed; bec;;ule we .are but renewed in part, ~while in this wodd. It brings b:1 ck the finner, out of hirnfeif, to God as his chieiend, truly, tho' not pe~·fettly, Pfa/.lxxiii. 2s. !Fhom have I in heaven but the11 P and th,re iJ 1Z,'me upon earth fh ,tf 1 dtjire bejideJ thee. Philip. i . 2 r. For to me to live iJ Ch,~t?. It m<'kes him to deny himfelf, aod what– e..,er way he turns, ' to point babi!uaily towards God; who i3 the cemer of the gracious foul, its .home, its d<t.-dling– place in all r;enerat ionJ, Pfal. xc. I. By rcgenera 1ing grace, the will is framed into a conformit1 to tl)e will of . 1--{od. It is conform-ed to his_preceptive will, being endu· ed with h9ly ipcl1nations, agreeable to~ every one of his commands. The whole law is imp• effc:d on the gracious foul: _every part: or it is writt'eo over on the rene'wed heart, - And aitho' remainin!7 corruption makes fuch blots in the ,, . writing, that oft- times the ma-n himfelf cannot read it: yet be that wro'te it can read it at all times ; it is never quire blotted out, nor can he. \;l\That he has written, ·he hh written, it (hall Hand ; For thiJ iJ" the covenant,- l will I • p:tt my la'1JJJ into their mind. and wrtte them in their heariJ, Heb. viii . 10. And it is a covenar.t of fait, a per .. petua1 covenant ' . It is alfo conformed to his providential will ; fo that the·man will no more b,e mafler of his ..?Wn procefs, nor carve out his lot for himfelf He learns t.O fay, fr ;.n his heart, The will oftle Lord be done, hejhall chufe our inhnitance for uJ, Pfal. xlvii. 4· · Thus the will is difpofed to fall in with thofe things, which, in its depra• ved ftate, it could never be reconciled to Particularly, ( 1-,) The foul is reconcded to the covenant ofl'eace. The Lord God propofed1 a covenant of peace to finners;
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