29{} Chap.3I. An .Expof:tion tipsy: the Book of f' j o B. Verf. i. binding and prefíing power, he law another Law in his mem- bers) warring againft the Law.ofhis mine, and bringing him into captivity to the Law ( that is, the power) ofIii which was in his members ; yea thisdid worke fo ftrongiy and dreadfully in him, that he was forced to cry out for helpe(v. 24.) 0 caret. eked man that I am , irho /hall deliver me from the body of this death ! Now, if Paul, a perfon regenerate, in whom the conque- ring and reigning power offin was broken, found loch an itnpe,. tuouá bent in his Poole to fin, what is it in them ( though pofli- bly they neither find nor ferle it) who are yet unregenerate, and fo have or are under the reigning ,snd unbroken po.verof fin I Secondly Confidering who 74was, and what the fpeciall finwas againft which, he here made a Covenant. Obferve. The beff ofmen arefue jeli to the temptation ofthe vilefl and vaineft fins. ü cieanenes and fornication, are fuch finsas many honeft hea- thens have profeffedly abhorr'd, and blufh'd at the mentionof; And yet 7ob,a mmmuch acquainted with and fearing Godmuch, had much adoe to keepe himfelfe cleare from them. There is no lfin fo filthy and unnaturall,but the feed ofit (in remiffe degrees) remaines in the nature of a Gracious man; Murder, adultery, theft, envy, malice againft man, yea and blafphemy againft Gad, dwell in thofe who are the workmar:fhipofGod, and the Tem. pies of the holy Ghoft. That good man declared his fenciblents of this, who, when report was made to him of any groffe fin committed by the vi!eft ofmen, was wont to bleffe God that he was not the man that had committed it ; implying, that even he notwithaanding grace received, h,d fo much corruption yet un- mortified and unfubdued, as would have hurried him into the dirtiefl wayes offin, if the Spirit ofGod had not both kd him into and kept him in the wages ofHolines. A godly man cannot live in the leaft fin, yet the greateft rìns haveiornewhat of life in a godly man; lob had never covenanted againft uncleanenes, if he hadnot found the motions ofit in hirtafelfe. Thirdly, Obferve. sfígracious heart engageth.hirpfelfe to the 'amyl in theHire of bo j manes againfifin. What
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