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pheLt.t7.
Rom.7.
18.
tt.
4.Sea.6.
That
the
rrorke
Of(anëli!icati
on is
not
fini-
fhed
in
au itt-
ßa;tt.
Rom.3.
t3.
Epfre.
s.26.27.
6o8
Of
Visttficatioss.
tened,we rightly
fudge
that
follie
and
madneffe,in which
we
thought
formerly our
chiefe
wifedome confined, and
ap_
prooue
that
as
onely
wife, which before
wee
condemned
as
extrearne foolifhneffe.
Of
this the
Apof
}le
fpeaketh,Ephef.
T.17.where
hee prayeth
that God
would
bellow
vpon
them
the
fj,irit
ofwifedo ne
and
reatelatian
through
the
IZnotrledge
of
him,
that
the
ejesoftheir
vnder.itanding might
be
inlightened,
&c. After
the
vnderfianding
is
thus inlightened, then
al-
fo
the
will
is
changed
;
and whereasbefore regeneration
it
was
corrupt,
peruerfe,and rebellious, now
being
fan6iified,
itbeginneth
to hate
and auoide
that
euill
which
in
former
times
it
loued
and
embraced,and
to
like and
delight
in
that
good
which formerly
it lothed
and
abhorred
:
fo
that
the re-
generate man faith with
the
Apofile,
that
to
will
is
prefent
with him,though
he finde
no
meànes
to performe
that
which
is
good;
and
thaehee
is delightedin the
lazy
of
God concerning
the
inner
man,
though
the
lain
of
his
members rebelling
againjl
the
lain
of
his
miede,
leide
him
captite
to
the
law
of
fInne.
Fi-
nally, the vnderfianding
being inlightened,
and
the will re-
formed, there followeth the renuing
of
all
the
affe6lions,the
thoughts,
imaginations,
powers and faculties
of
the
foule
:
and
lafily, the internall parts
being
quickened,there infueth
the renuing
of
the
bodie,
the outward
a
&tions,life
and
con
-
uerfation.
And
thus
haue
I
fet
downe the
manner and forme
of
our
fpirituall
renuing.
Now
as
the worke
of
mortification,
fo
this
ofviuification,is
not
perfedied and
finifhed
in an
infiant,
but
in
continuance
of
time and by degrees; neither doe
wee
fo
long
as
wee
continue
in
this life,
receiue any
great
mea-
fure
thereof,but
onely
the
firft'
fruiter,
which
is
but
as
it
were
a
little
handfull in
refpeóó
of
that large
haruefi
of
godline(fe
which
wee
(hall
attaine vnto
in
Gods kingdome,
as
the A-
pofile
fpeaketh,Rom.8.23. Whereas
therefore
the Church
is
Paid
to
be
perfe6ily
purged from
all
(pots
of
finne,Ephef.5.
26.27.
it
is
to bee vnderllood
of
our iufiification,whereby
the
faithfull are
deliuered from
the guilt and punifhment
of
finne,and adorned with Chritis
perfect
righteoufneffe;
and
not of
our fan6lification,which
is
onely begun
in
this
life,
but