ABoxl preaous cnstinettt: Or, r . the will ceafes to fin, as Ephraim faid to his Idols, Get you hence, what have I any more to do with you,then the work of God is begun in power upon the Soul. A un iveria I willingnefs to he rid of all fin, fpeaks the heart to be found and fincere with God ;. the enmity that Grace works in the heart againfl fin, is againfi the whole kind, tis againa all fin, as well profitable and pleafurable fins, as dif- paraging and difgracing fins ; and as well againfl fmall fins as ag lint+ great fins ; true Grace flrikes at root and branch, at head and members, at father and fon. A true Ifraelite would not have one Canaanite left in the Holy Land,h.e would have every Egyptiai drowned in the Red Sea of Chrifis bloud, Pfa/. 119. 104. 1 hate every falfe way, Pfa I. 139. ult. Search me 0 Lord, andfee if there be any wicked [way] in me, and lead me in the way ezierl;fling. Saving Grace makes a man as willing to leave his lulls, as a Slave is willing to leave his Gaily, or a Prifoner his Dungeons or a Thief his Bolts, or a Beggar his rags. But now take a man that is in his natural condition, and he is as unwilling to part with his, fins, as Atrtham was to turn Hag(r and Ifhmael out ofdoors. Am- brofe reports of one Thotimul, that having a difeafe upon his body, the Phyfician told him, That except he did abfiain from intemperance, drunkennefs, uncleannefs, & c. he was like to lofehis eyes ; his heart was fo defperately let upon his lulls, that he anfwered, Vale lumen amicum,Farevrel fweet Light then, he had rather lofe his eyes, than leave his fins. So they in Micha 6. 6, 7. do make very large offers for a difpenfation to live in their fins, They offer Calves of a year old, they offer thoufands of Rams, and ten thoufand Rivers of Oyl ; yea, they offer their firil born for their tranfgreffi- ons, the fruit of their bodies for the fin of their fouls. Sin- ners hearts are fo glued to their hilts, that they, will rather part with their neareft, deareft, and choiceft enjoyments, than part with their fins ; yea, when they are put hard to it, they will rather part with God, Clrift, and all the glory of another world, than they 'will part with force bafe bofom lull; witnefs that young man in he Gofpel, who went away forrowful, becaufe he had great poffeffions, Math. 19. 21) 22.
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