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T
entatiors
oppugning
our
iufifcation,anfinered.
ken
captiue
offinne, that
wee
labour to attaine
veto
our
for-
mer freedome,
in
the
mearre
time
forrowing
and
groning
vnder the heauie
waight
of
our corruptions, and crying
out
Rom.7.
with
the Apotlle,Wretched
man
that
I
am,
rho
/hall deliver
me
from the
/odce
of
this death
?
and
that
we
conf
effe
our
mifera
ble eflate
vnto our Captaine
and leader
Iefus
Chrifl,defiring
him to
aflìtl
vs
with
the power
of
his
holy
fpirit,that thereby
we may
be
freed
out
of
the hands
of
thefe our fpirituall
ene-
mies, whole
bondage
and captiuitie
is
fo
irkfome and
grie-
uous
veto
vs.
Neither
Both the
Lord
now require that
wee
performe abfolute and perfedl obedience
to
his
commande-
ments,but that
to will
be prefent in
vs,
that
wee confent and
approue
his
law
to
be
good
and
delighting
in
it
concerning
the inner man,rhat
we delire
and
indeuour to
performe
that
good
we
cannot; and
forgetting that
which
is
behinde,
in-
dcuour our
felues
to that which
is
before, and follow
hard
VhiL
3.r
3
,i4, towards the
marke,though
wee
cannot attaine vnto the end
ofour
race,till
wee come
to
the end
of
our liues.
Finally,the
Lord
doth not require
of
vs
a
whole
haruefl ofgood`nes and
righteoufnes,
but
the
fir/}
fruites
thereof;
he
doth not
(land
fo
much vpon our
ao}ions,
as
vpon
our
affedtions; vpon
the
perfection
ofour
workes,as
vpon the alacritie
ofour
willes,
and
integritie
ofour
hearts;
the
righteoufneffe
which
he
re-
quireth
is
an
humble
confeffion
of
our
vnrighteoufheffe,
a
frncere
hatred
of
our
fumes,
a
holy
indeuour
in the
vie
of
the
meanes
to
mortifie our
corruptions,
and to
rife
from
the
death
offinne, to
holinefl'e
and newnes
of
life;
which
who
-
foeuer can
offer
vnto
God,
they may
affure
themfelues
that
they
(hall
bee
accepted
through
Chrifl,as
righteous
in
Gods
fight,notwithilan-
ding
their
manifold
impede-
Cliorrs
and corruptions.
The
end
ofthe
f
toad
Bootie.