:Hea.:l L The Rejet!Jb!mtce betwixt natura!, &~ 17) 7 hit:d~v, ·As· the child is· merely paffive in regenet atibn, fo is the child of God in l' egeneration. The -one contributes nothing toits own regeneration; neither does the~othercon 'tribute any thing, by way of efficiency, to·its o.wn tegeoeta~ tion : for though a man may lay himfelf d-own at the pool·; yet he hath no hand in moving of .the water,. no .f?ffi'cacy in petforming of the cute . One is botn the ehil€1 nh~ king·, aoo.tber the child of a beggar.: the ehild has no hand «tall in this difference. God lcav.es fame in their depraved Hate; others he brings into fiat e of grace or regener-acy. l ftho,u be thus h.onou ~ e,d, no th~n k s to thee ; for r-J.Jln mal'e·t h th::e· to differ fro rn imother? 1 Cor. iv. 7. ' Fo·u rt h!y, Tf1ere is a wonderful con texture of parts in both births. Admirable is the fl:ru ctu re of man's bod y, in 'Which t-here is fudr a variety of organs : nothi ng wanting ; nothing i'uperflt: ou•., The Pfalmiff coo fi dering hi s own b o- . d-y, looks oo it a·s a piece of man~ellous work ; I am:fl ar;., fully and rwonder.fulty mad~·, f-ailh he, Pjal: c x xxix. J 4· and C'urioujlj •wrought hz t he lowtr par/<J of t} e eart h', ver . 1 5. That is, io the womb, where I know not how the bones do grow, more than I know what i-s a- coing 1n t he Iowe/1: parts of t:lJe earth. In natural generation , we ~re curiou fl y wrought, as a p1ece of needle work, as the word imports : -e\·eo fo it is in regeneration,. Pfal. X:lv. 1 4· Shejha/1 bf broug ht unt o tfe Kiwg, i n raiment ofntedle-'7JJ'Ork, raimen~ eurioLiil y wrought. It is the f-ame word in both' texts. And what that raiment .is, the apoftle· tell's us, Ep.~ iv. 24. It i,s t he nertv man, which after Godhcreated in righteoujneft and t rue holinefs. That is the raim.cnt,. , he faith in the fame place, we f!1U!l put on;- not excluding the imputed righ- ;-· tco~ fn eis of €:hrifr . Iloth are ctniouiiy wrought, as maf- Lr' · te r· pieces ofthe mani.fol·~h·;ifdam of God .. 0 the wonderful' ~ .. · contexture of graces in the new creatmre? ·a glorious creature new-made .,fter t!1e image of God ? Jt: is grace for 1 grace in Chrifl:, which m a1u~s u.p the new mall ! John i. 16•. Even as in bodily generation, the child has membet for mem– -ber i.n the parent; ha,s every mem:ber the parent has, . m a certain pro portion . . Fifthly, All this, in both cafes , hath its rife from that ~hic.h is t:a itfdf v-ery fmall a.nd inconfiderable. 0 the· powcu: ·,
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