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Of
the
fgnes
and
notes
of
onr.
elerlion.
20
faluation
,butratherofreprobation
and
damnation
;
but
it
is
to
be vnderflood
of
an euangelicall
obedience, which
coney
fleth
in
an
holy
deutre
and
earnci+
endeuour
of
keeping
all
Gods
commandements;
with
which the children
of
God
are
lb
wholly
poífeffed,
that
after
their
true conuerfion
it
is
itr-
poffible
that
they
fhould
fall
into
'any
knowne
f
nne,with
full
content
ofwill
and
with their
whole hearts.
And
this
is
the
obedience which
the Gofpell
requireth,and
of
which the
A-
poflle fpeaketh, and thus wee neuer
finne
but keere
all
Gods
commandements, namely,
in
refpeáá
of
our
defire
and ear-
nett
endeuour. This
is
that
righteoufneffe
which
is
accep-
ted,as
though it
were
perfea
before
God,
who
firareth
vs as
a
man
(pares his forme
whom
bee
tenderly loueth,
as
he
pro -
fefíeth;Malach.3.1
7.
and therefore meafureth our
obedie
:ce
not
according to our aécions,
but
according
to
our
aWe-
é+ions,and
accepteth
ofthe
will for the deed,as
before
I
haue
Cewed.
But vet
that
we
may
not
deceiue
our
flues
with
a
counter-
feit fhew,
wee
are
to know that
this euangelicall obedience
bath
thefe
properties;
fill+,
it
mull be totali,
and
that bòth
in
refpe6l
ofthe
fubieot and
of
the
obie.&;
that
is,
we mull
not
fhare our
felues
bctweene
God
and
the world,
giuing
one
the
tongue,the
other the
heart; one our
outward aelions,and
the
other our inward
affedrions;
but
we mull performe our
obedience
with
our whole hearts,
yea
with
the whole
man
bodie
foule
and
fpirit:
for
though
we be
regenerated and
fair
aified but
in
part;yet
is
there
no
part
ofthe
whole man vnre-
generate and
vnfanéhified,
howfoeuer the
flefh
and
the
cor-
ruption
of
nature be fpread likewife and mixed
therewith
:throughout the whole
body
and foule.And therefore
though
all our Obedience
fauour
of
the
flefh,and
is
mingled ith ma-
nifold
imperfedions,
yet
it
do.th
proceede from the whole
Man
body
andfoule,becaufe
regeneration
from
which
it
pro
-
ceedeth
isnotof
any
part
alone,but
ofthe
whole
man.So
alfo
it
muff
be
totali
in
refiedl
of
the
obiel;
for
it
is
not
fufftcient
that
with Herod
we
obferue many
things,
if
we nourish wil-
lingly
any one
finne
taking
therein
pleafure
and
delight,
but
we
muff
defire
'and-
endeuour
to
forfake
all
our
_finnes,
and
to
Mal.
;.
ta.
4
Set7.8.
The
propezties
of
trueobcdi-
ence:
fif,t,tbat
it mull
be
to-
tall and entire.