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Of
Mortification.
605
as
it
was
vfedto
doe
in
the time
of
our ignorance
:
then
be-
ing
further enabled
by
vertue
ofGods
fpirit,
working
in vs,
we
preuaile
againfi
it,
fo
that
though it
often rebell,yet
doe
the fubdue
it and obtaine
viaorie.Laflly,obtaining
a
greater
reafure ofthe
fpirit,we
mortifie
and kill it
;
that
is,
though
we doe
not vtterly
depriue
it of
life
and
motion,
yet
we
glue
it
fuch
a
deadly
wound, that it
neuer recouereth
his
former
flrength, but
Rill
pineth
and
languifheth,till with
the
death
ofthe
bodie it
alto
dieth
and
is
wholly abolifhed.
Now
whi-
le11
it
is
in this confumption and neere
vnto
death,
hauing
a
long
time
before been weake, oftentimes
it
feemeth
to re-
couer
flrength,
and to
offer fome
violence
vnto the
regene-
rate part
:
but
this
muff
not
difcourage
vs,
as
though
now
it
were
on
the mending hand,and
like
to
bee reflored
to it
for
-.
mer health
and
flrength
:
for
as
it
fareth
with
thofe
that
lie
vpon their
death-bed
;
fo
it
is
with
our
Fick
flefh,and the
cor-
ruptions thereof,after
that
nature feemeth (pent, and the
po-
wer
thereof
wholly decaied;
oftentimes falling
into
force
grieuous fit,wherein there
is a
fight betweene
life
and
death,
their
f}rength
feemeth redoubled and
farre
greater then
euer
it
was
:but
be
of
good comfort,it
is
no figne
of
health,but
a
pang ofdeath
which
neere
approcheth.
And
thus you
fee
the death
of
finne
and our
naturali
cor-
ruption. Now
as
in
the
death
of
the
bodie
there
is
a
certaine
progreffe
therein,
namely, when
the
dead
carcafe
is
allo
bu-
ried
;
fo
alto
there
is
not
onely
a
death
of
finne,but
allo
a
bu-
Rom.6.4.
riall, the which
is
wrought
by
the
vertue
of
Chrifl:s
buriall,
a
d'L.
S:
applied
vnto
vs
by
Gods fpirit;
whereby
it
commeth
to
paffe
3 3
that
finne
which
is
alreadie flame
and dead,
doth
fo
remaine
and continue
;
fo
that this buriall
of
finne
is
nothing
elfe
but
the
further
progreffe
and continuance
of
our mortification.
Ofthis
the Apofílc
fpeaketh,Rom.6.4.
Wee
are buried
then
R
oat
6.4.
with
h:
nby
baptafine into
hisdeath,&c.
So
Co1.2.12.
And thus haue
I
fhewed what
our
mortification
is,
which
4,Set`7.3,
as
it
is
a
worke
mofl
hard,fo
alío
tnoa
neceffarie:
the
difficul-
That
the werke
tie
appeareth by the name
which
is
borrowed
from
the
pra-
ofnaorti
eati-
&ife
ofChirurgeons,
who before
they
cut
off
any
member,
en
hard
and
doe
fiat
mortifie
it, that
after they may
take
itaway.writh
netefjarie,
lef
e