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On
the
Excellency
of
the Sont.
41
things
that
you
minde,
and
if
you
would fpeak as
in the
prefence of God ,
you
cannot
but
acknowledge
that.the
things
ofthe
fiehh,
are
the
things
that
do
take
up your
heartst
that
are
the
adequate
obje&s
of your fpirits,
and
you
think your great
good
and
contentment
lies.
in
them;
fo
that
if
:fo
bee you might but live alwaies
in
this
world,
and
have
thofe
contentments to
theflelh,
as you
delire, you
would
care
for
nothing elfe, but
your
hearts would bee fully
fa-
tisfied; this
is
living after
the
flefh
;
now
the
Scripture tells
us
clearly,
_.
that
thofe
that
live
after
the
flehh
thus, fhall
die.
It
is
your
great
care
that
the
feefh
bee fatisfied, and
it
is
Gods
threat,_
that
when you make
it
thus your
great care
to
fatisle the
fleh,
that
you
fhall
die
;
fo
that
this is a
periíhing.condition
unto
you.
Seventhly, Yea
further, what foul
foever
is
but
under the
dominion of
any
one tuft,
that foul,
if
it
fhould
now
depart,
would certainly
bee
loll
:
Not
onelyfuch
as
live in
all kind
offing, that the
confiant
courfe
of their
lives,is in every kind
of
fin;
but
if
there
bee
but any one reigning;
ruling
fin ,
if
there
bee
but
any one finful way
that
God hath convinc'd
thy confcience of
to
bee
a
fin, and
yet becaufe
of
gain,
or
delight,
or
pleafure,
or
honours,
orrefpes,
thou
doll go
on in
a
conf
}ant courfe, and way, and pra&ice
of
that
fin
though
it
beet but one
fin,
fo
that
thou
art
a
flave
to
any,
one
lull, certainly this
foul
of
thine,
if
God
works
no
o-
otherwife upon
it,
than
yet
hee hath done,
will
cer-tainly be
loll;
and
that
is
clear out
of
Rom.
6.
14. For
Jin fhall
not
have
dominion over
you,
foryet
are
not,
under
the
Law,
hat
kinder
grace.
._:I
would reafon-fronuhis Scripture, thus, what
foul foever
is
not
under;
grace,; under
the
covenant of
grace,
and
under the Mercy
that
there is in that
covenant,
that
foul,
if,.now
it
fhould depart, mull perifh
.eternally;
but
whofoever
is
under the dominion of any one
-fin,
is
notitn
der
grace; for
theScripture plainly
faith;
That
fin fhall not
have dominion over
us,
if
wee
bee under grace :
If
our
fouls
bee in
fuch
an eflate,
as
they
bee
under the
grace
of
the
Gofpel,
then
there
mull
not
any
one
fin have dominion
-o-
ver