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Comforts
for
thole
that
feeand
feele theirimperfet1ions.
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g
ARd
to
the end
that
we may
not
be difcouraged
in thefe
4,S 1.5.
our holy indeuours,
with
Satans
temptations drawee
from
That
our
rt.-
the
relikes
of
our
finnes,
the
flrength
of
our corruptions,
likes of
fnne
and the
imperfe
&ions and
finali meafure
of
our
fan&lifica-
ted
unto
tion;
let
vs
further
confider, firfi,
that
thefe relikes
of
fanne
(hall not bee imputed vnto
vs,
nor
corne in
iudgement
be-
fore
God
to
our condemnation,becaufe
by
faith
we are
vni-
`ted
vnto Chrifl,and
fo
made
partakers
of
the vertue
and
me-
rits
of
his
death andpaffion,whereby
he
hath
fatisfied
Gods
iuflice for
our
finnes,fo
that
they cannot
now condemne
vs,
nor-draw
vpon vs
any
punifhment;
and likewife wee are
mad;
partakers
ofhis
perfeCIrighteoufneffeand obedience
to
the law,
which
as a
rich
robe
Both couer
and hide
our
patched ragges
ofimperfeC}ion.
So
then
though
we
fee
the
relikes
of
fanne
and our manifold
imperfeaions, let
vs
not
be
difcouraged
herebyfrom labouring
in the
worke
of
fan
-
aification, but
rather
firiue
and
endeuour
to
mortifie
our
,finnes,
and
afpire
tomore
and more
perfef?
ion. And
ifbe-
fides
our purpofe we
be
led captiue
of
finne,lct
vs
remember
that
we haue
an
advocate
with
the
father
Iefus
Chris
the
aunt,
and
that
he
is the reconciliation
for
our finnes;
To
that though
they
make
vs
condemne our
felues
in
our owne confciences,
yet
they
fhall
neuer condemne
vs
before
God.
And this
the
Apófile
Paul
theweth vnto vs;
for halting
in
the feuenth
Chapter
of
his
Epifile
to the
Romanes declared,
that
the
faithful! haue-remaining
in
them the
flefh
and relikes
of
their
old corruptions, which
powerfullie
hinder them
from
doing
the
good
they wotild,and moue them
to commit
the
euill which they
would
not,
left any hereby should be dif-
eóuraged
in
the
fight
and
fenfe
ofhis
corruptions,
hee
pre-
-
fentlieaddeth
in the
beginning
of
the
eighth Chapter,that
notwithfianding
the
flefh
and
the corruptions
therof,which
before
he
hadfpoken
of,remained
in
vs,yet
therewur
no con
-
demnation
to thofe
who
were in
Chrifl
JeJ
c
:
and
he
ÿeeldeth
this reafon,
becaafe
the law
o
f
the
fpirit
of
life which
is
rn
Chrsl
t
lefus,had
freed
them
from
the
law
of
(inne
and
of
death,
that
is,
becaufe
the power
and vertue
of
the fpirit
ofGod(which
is
the
author
oflife
Eßÿ
vnitipg
vs
as
members unto the
body
S
f
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