SBCT.V. of the New Creature. 257 ttrAtttlAttittitw ttt riMAITVPOTMMVAP S&RMOdv XLII. Shewingwhat the .91Cep Creature doth not imply,and towhat it is oppofeed. GAL. 6.15. For in thrill leper neither circumcifion nor uncircumcijion availeth any thing, but a newcreature. THe workof grace regenerating and renewing us , is here called r 4 new Creature, or Creation (as you have heard:) And this phrafe fignifieth two things. a. Thatit is thework folely and wholly of God , for he can onely create. Ié God fhould onely make thee a man, and thou make thy fell righteous, or a new Creature, thou (hoaldfl dofomething better thenGod : For Moline eft to eff"e ju- flum,quam to hominemee,It is better for thee to bea righteous man , then to be a man, Laidn.luflin. Now though this pointof Gods foie and irrefiflable efficiency inpoint of grace, be oflarge and nobleconcernment both lloarinallyand Pra hi- cally , yet I (hall fay no more of it thenwhat hath been delivered, refer- ving the refidue of that potation , to tome other opportunity, and feafonable Text. I come therefore in the nextplace tothe fecond thing implyed in the adjun& that qualifieth this Creature , ¡rù asewcreature, which denoteth the great ex- cellency, and noble natureof it : for fo the wordNew is sled frequently in Scri- pture, for that tvhich is excellent and admirable; thoughhere in the Text it doth efpecially relate to an oppofition between the Old things that formerly were done by this Regenerate perfon, and the New things he now exercifeth him- fell in, TheObfervation from the Text is obvious. The workofgrace regeneratingma- eth ne altogether new,. That new andglorious Body which thepeopleof God (hall have by their refitr- rettion, Bothnot moreexceed this vile, mortal, and infirm body that we now bear about with us; then the alteration and change Godmakes in the foul when he re- neweth it , caufethit for the future to differ from what it was formerly ; then proud, now humble ; then earthly, now heavenly. Then it was like Naamau be- forehis waffling, full ofa loathfom leprofie ; but now like his skinafter his wa(h- ing, frefh and beautiful Before it was like a Lazarus, full of noyfom Ulcers and force; but ftnce it is like Ah(olem, that was comely from the head to thefoot. This L 1 point
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