662 / 772
Reuel,
t.
z6.
s7.and
3
t
L.
§.Sea.16.
That
vvc
may
be
mooned
to
loathe the
vvoíid,
ando,
long
fir
eter
-,
nail
life.
Phil.
1.11.23.
§.Set
1.17.
The conclufen
nfthe
former
point.
§.Se11.t$.
The
laft
coni
-
lation,taken
from
our
44-
red
vic7arie
a-
gaiuft,finne.
6
36
..'
onsfert.t
far
rhofe who
Pe
and
feele
their
imperfeêtiont.
quell
a
more
excellent
crowne
ofcternall glorie:asappea
-
reth,Reuel.2.26.2
y.and 3.21.
Lafllie,
hé fuffereth
vs
to
be molefled and
vexed with
the
relikes
of
our finnes;
that
hereby
he may make
vs
to
loathe
this world and
vale
ofmiferie,
wherein
we can
doe
nothing
but
breake the coinmandements
of
our
dèare
louing
fa-
ther;
and
may
be moued
to
delire
that
heauenly
life in
Gads
kingdome,
whenhauing
laid
aCde
all
corruption,we
Ihall
be
indued
with
ail
perfection, and
be fullie enabled
to
per
-
forme
fuch
obedience
vnto
God
as
he
required.
For
Peeing
finne
is
not
fully
vanquifhed till it be fubdued by
our death,
nor
we euer at mil and
free
from
the
affaults
thereof,
till
wee
refl
in
the
graue
;
therefore the children
ofGod
are
content
to
forfake
the
world,
becaufe
they
can
no
otherwifeforfake
their
(mues; and
delire
rather
to indure
death,
than
they
would
haue
finne
to
liue
with them,
as
appeareth in
theex-
ample
of
the Apoflle
Paul,Phil.z.22.23.
And
thus haue
I
(hewed the wifedome and power
ofGod,
who
turneth
euen
the
fiunes
of
his
children
to
their
good,
which
are
in
their
owne nature euill;
and therefore
though
we
are
continually
to
bewailethem,and to
delire
by
al means
to
be freed from
them,
yet
we
are
not
defperatelie
to
fnke
wider them,
not
daringto
encounter them, fceing now they
:cannot condemne
vs
nay
not
fo
much
as
hurt
vs,
but
rather
are
fo
ordered by
Gods
all
-wife
prouidence,
that
they
ferue
for the
manifeflation
of
his
glorie,
and
furthering
of
our
faluation,lo
that
we
doe
not with willing
delight nor
flauifh
fearc
yceld vnto
them,
but
to
the
vttermofl
of
our power
make
refiflance, and delire
and indeuour
to
ouercome
then.
Now
in
the
fife
and
lafl place
let
vs
confider,
that though
our flelh be neuer
fo
flrong,
and the
innumerable corrupti-
ons thereoffeeme
vnrefiflable,and
though
on the other
fide
our
fpirituall man
feemrc
neuer foweake and feeble,
yet wee
are
not
hereby
to'bee
difcouraged,:.feeing the
regenerate
part íhall molt
certainelie
obtains the victorie
in
the
end,
though
in
the
confli6tit
reçeiueth many
foiles. And
though
this little Dams
fceme.
in
the ties
of
a
carnal].
S.sul,
to
bee
faire
w