Chap. 28, An Expofition upon .the Book of o g. Verf. 28. 409 to him indeed, and when we with purpofe of heart feperate from fin, then we depart from it indeed. Fourthly, He who can fay as Taal raid it (Rom 7. x s.19,) That (evil!) which I doe,' not ; theevil which Iwouldnot, that doe 1; Such a perfon is departed from evil. The Virgin that cried,and fo (hewed bcr utter abhorrence of all impure embraces, was not defiled, though dcfloured ; her rape or raviíhment was not her fin, but her affit&ion, becaufe it was done meetly by an outward force. And though our inward incompleat motions to in are our fins, though refitted, yet becaufe refitted we may be Laid todepart from them, while they rile up in us. Fifthly, He departeth from the evil that is in hits or isdone by him, who beans it continuallyas his burden, and mournes over it fincerely before theLord. When the regenerate part is vext with the irregular movings and a&ings of the unregenerate parr, as the righteous foul of Lot was vexed with the filthy converfations of theSodomites (2Pet.2.7,8.) whencorruption remainingin us is to us(as the wicked are among whom the godly remain) as ashorn in our eye, and as a goad in our fide ; when as David bemoaned himfelf (Pfal. i zo. ç.) Woe is me that Ifojourn in t,atefec, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar : So we bemoaneour (elves , becaufe Mefee andKedar, this lu(f and that 1uif dwells in us; Then are we departed fromevil. Sixthly, He departs from evil, that heartily (Irives again(} it, and labours to mortifie it by prayer and falling, and in both, by a beleiving application of the croffe or death of Chriff, that it may dye. He who reprefenrs his fin toGod as his enemy, and is glad when any word finites ir, yea when any affleion weakens it, or when God bedgetb up bis way with thornesthat he may not pc; thepaths. ofit ; fuch a man is departed from evil. Seventhly, So doth he who is fo far from ffanding upon his guard, by denying, extenuating, or excufng his fin, when others charge him with it, that he is forwarde(f and firtf,in charging, ac- curing, and judging himfelf for ir. As David (Pfaff. 7 3. 22.) So foòlifhbave I been and ignorant, Ihave been OLord as a beef# beo fore thee. Thirdly, Obferve Todepart from all finful evil, is an infallible argument o fa `vife andunderflanding man. G g g ?a
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