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How
rie
may be
et
fared
that
ve
haue
true
faith.
ken with
diffidence
and
diflrufl, and afterwards
this
diflrufl
vanquifhed
againe by
affiance,
fo
as
after we haue
vttered
through
the
violence
of
tentation
force
diffident and
in3pa-
tient
fpeeches,
yet
at
the
length
we
grow
to
fobs
refolution:
lob
r
;.
05.
Though
hee
!kill
mee,
yet
trill
I
tras(i
in
him.
Wee
may
an
difcerne-
our zeale fometime
fo
hot
in
Gods
feruice,that
it
expelleth
coldneffe
and the
fruit
thereofdulneffe
and
drow-
fineffe
of
fpirit, and fon,etimes
by them it
is
cooled and
in
outward
appearance
quenched;
and
the
like
may
bee
Paid
afail
the
other
fruits
ofthe
flefh
and the
fpirit.Befides
which
fight'
and flriuing
between them
and
theirfruits,the
Chrifli-
an
may
obferue
in
hit-
afefe a
mifliking
of
the corruptions
of
the
flefh,
great
briefe and vexation
ofmind,
becaufe hee is
fill
fubieel vnto
them,and
an carnet}
delire
to
be freed from
them,
ioyned with
an
holie indeuour in
.
the
vfe
of
the
meanes
which
are
ordained
of
God
for this purpofe;
and
ho
foeuer
through
the
violence
ofSatans
temptations and
his owne
corruptions,
he
be
force
times led captiue
into
fin,
yet
afterwards
hee
is
grieued
for
it,
hee
hateth
and
abhor
-
reth it,
and
earneL
}ly
dcfireth and indeuoureth
forthe
-tizne
to
come
to
leaue
and
forfake
it,
and
to
ferue
the
Lord in
newneffe
oflife.
Nove
whence
Both
all
this
oppoficion
and
.contrarietie proceede?
shall wee
fay
from
the
flefh,
why
it
is
againfl
all
reafon
;
for
as
the Apotile
James
difputeth,Iam.
3
.11.
Doth
a
fountaine
fend
out
at
one
place
feete
Crater
and
bitter
?
can
the
fg
tree
bring
forth
.olives,
or
a
Bitte
figs?
or ra-
ther
as
our
Sauiour
Chriflreafoneth
Math.7.
6.
Doemenga-
)4atch
7.i6.
ther
grapes ofthornes.or figs ofthiflles
?
fo
may
I
demand
,can
Rom.7.18.
the
flefh,
in
the which,as the
Apoflle affirmeth, dvvelleth
no
good thing,bring foorth
the
finites
ofthe
fpirit, which are
quite
contrarie
to the
nature
thereof, namelie,forrow for
hnne,
hatred
of
it`felfe, and the
corruptions thereof,
and
Barnett delire
offanaification
and
holines
of-life
?
it
is
impof-
fible.And therefore
we may
conclude,
that
they
are
the fruits
ofGods
fpirit
in vs,
and confequentlie
that
wee
are
the
Fons
.
of
God
who
are
inducd with
a
true
and liuelie
faith
;
for
as
Omo$
many
as
are
led
by
the
(Ow of
God, they
are
the
rònnes
of
God,
which priuiledge
belongeth
onelie to.the faithful],
as
appea-
reth