A choice Bed of Spices. 39 ter in him, there is a holy cleanfing and purifying dirpolition in a regenerate perfon, that will fill be a working; and call- 1 ing it out. But now mark, in men of impure hearts and lives, the fcum cloth not only arife, but it feeths and boyls in Ez.,,,,k. 24. I 2. She gearied her J elf 1Tith-l)es, and her, great fcrtna gent not f r.1.) mi- of her ; notwithflanclang all the threat- ! tninfrs of God, and all the judgments of God upon her, yet li,;'fcum and filthin,:fs boyled in though God boyled f erg- Plcm in the pot of his judgments, yet her fcum and filth {luck to every fide of her ; wicked mens fcum and filth cloth not only arife, but it alfo feeths and boyls in, and mingles toge- ther with their fpirits, but fo cloth not the fcum and filch that rifes in a gracious heart ; a Sheep may fall into the mire, but a Swine delights to wallow in the mire. But, i Fourteenthly, A godly man may argue thus. Such as fin hath not a dominion over, are not under the Law, but under Grace, Rona. 6. 14. Bat fin hath not a dominion over me, there- fore lam not under the Lao, but under srace. Sin may rebel,in a Saint l but it fhall never reign in a Saint. Look as thofe bearts,in that, Dan. 7. 12. had their dominion taken away, though their lives were fpared and prolonged for a feafon and a time ; foyvhen thrift and grace ente,-s into the foul, they take away the dominion of fin, though they do for a time ' fpare the life of fin. To prevent mifakes, pre mire with me briefly there few things. RA that in every ..regenerate man there are two men, an old man and a new man.; or if you pleafe, 'fiefh and fpirit. Secondly, The old 'Man, the flefhly part, will incline the foul, and byafs the foul, as well to fins againfl the Gofpel, as to fins againit the Law, and to. great fins as well as to Cann fins, witnefs Noah's druukenciefs, Lot's inceft, 4ffttr's oppreffion, David's murder and adultery, Solomon's idolatry, and Peters blafphemy. Thirdly, The-old man) the flefhly part is as much in the will, as in any other part of 'the regenerate man ; and therefore, when he falls into hainous fins', he may fall into them with confent, delight and 'v lJingnefs, fo far as his will is unrenewed. Though a ;real Chrillim be cliang'd in-every part, yet 'tis-but in pair, ) 9 ,John 4. r4. All refinance of fin in a Scripture 1phrafe, is called conquei 3 for in the refiftance of it, thFre is as much love fhew'd to God as in the conquekof its though there be net io much power leen. Rom. I The; ;3.
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