2y6 of the Nett Creature. S s c T. V frequent exercifes of grace. To dye a newCreature, is theputting of thee into a poiteffionof eternal( glory : But who path believedour report? who begins tofeel in himfelf hungrings and thielings after, this elate i whofaith, I will return to God from whomby (inne I havewandred, for fo it will bebetter withme than in all my fins ? Alas, It's this new creatureonely which hath the promifeof this life, and of that to come. tttettAtt 92tt:t SERMON XLV, Sheering the Counterfeit of the ,`7\(.9,- Creature. GAL. 6. 15. ter. in Chri/l Plus neither Circumcifion nor uncircuruGifion availeth any thing,buta New-Creature. Shall now finifh this Difceurfe about a new Creature : we have handled the na- turc of ir, and its properties Ifhall in thelati place (hewyou the counterfeits of this newCreature, orwhat that is which leemech tobe this new Creature, and yet is not. There is nothing wherein a man cloth of tner deceive himfelfe than in this. If the queftionfhould be put to everyman,Whether he be anew.Cicature, or not? He v,ould anfwer affirmatively, And thank God he is : Ir is therefore good to demonfrate it ocularly and palpably,rhat there are many things whichhave the vicarand form of this new Creature, but they want the powerof ir; and in- deed to have the Phew,name and title of ir, is ealte ; but toput forth the powerful operations of it, is burdenfome and difficult-: In the number therefore of theft Counterfeits, are, r.tVho feliii to Firl, AQ chofe who have the outward forme andjhape ofgodlineffe, hut Are wholly be bornagain, do//ionic of the inwardefficacy .vod power f it. Thus the Apoll le, Raving a form of but Ara no;, ocdlinefe, hut denying the power of it, 2 Tim 3. s. The Greek word y ieeoory is ren- ilred by a Form, Image, or Similitude; Asif you íhould fay, the Pidure or Statue of.a man, it isnot a man : Thus it is here, there are many who have the 'outward fafhion and exprell'ionof godlineife,but they havenot the realityof it , which is here in theText called ,2liatuv, virtue or power, becaufe the true nature of eve- ry thing is difcerned by itsoperations, a pifture doth not fpeak, nor walk, nor grow, becaufe it's onely the formofa man. Now this outward profellion might teem toput in fair for chis new creature ; for look upon himas a Chrifban, fo he is one who bath renounced the Ido:sof the world ; he is one that comes outofthe wildernelfe heorce lived in : If you compare him and an Heathen together, doth not one teem to be a new Creature in refpeft of theother? But this external( new 'Why are out- change is not enough. ward form of Fitti, Becara a at youhave heard, The reatefl wor o thre newCreature is in the godlines with- f y á f cur inward ef- heart, called therefore the hidden man, and the inward man. It is not fo much a , firacyof ir,&c. new Tongue toprofeffe a newwor[hip of God, asa newMinde, a newWill, new 1. Alit ions : for look where the old man hadhis greateftHold, and his lrongeft Fort
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