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en 2 C 5i. I. I2. 275 Fevers what is right in his own condition from what is ';wrong : We would not therefore think that we cannot have a good teftimony from our Confcience, except there be abfolute purity in the duty or a &on ; this were, as if a man fhould fay, I have no faith, becaufe I have a mixture of unbelief with it ; or, I have no fincerity, be- caufe I have a mixture of hypocrify with it. We know that faints ufe to diftinguifh and put a difference be- twixt thefe, as that poor man did, who Pays, Alark g'. believe, Lord, help my unbelief ; as another may fay, I have much hypocrify, yet I have force lincerity with it, as David doth on the matter, P/al. 51. The fourth is, That there may be a good tefiimony of theConfcience in a particular action, when,as to the a &ion complexly confidered, a believer may .fee ground to be humbled ; there being two parts in him, the renewed and unrenewed part, fometimes the corrupt and unre- newed part may fo reftrain him, that he cannot do that which he would ; and yet he may have force peace here, in as far as, according to the renewed part, be allows not himfelf in that prevailing of the corrupt and unrenewed part, but is aft-lifted with, and protefts againft the fame : So the apof$le Pays, Rom. 7.15, t 6, r 7. That which Ido, I allow not ; for what I would, that .do I not ; but What I hate; that do L If then I do that which I would:- not, Iconfent unto the law that it is good ;. and it is no more 1. - that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me: For to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not He wants not ground of challenge from the unrenewed part; yet he hath peace on this account, that he can and, doth warrantably diftinguifh betwixt the law of hír' mind and the law of his members And he maintains the peace of a good Confcience in force refpe &, not as to his,being free from all guilt in refped of his unrensewed or Corrupt. part, but in"refpea of the oppofìtion which the renewed part made unto it In refpeEt of his corruption, he looks at,and cries out of himfelf as a f nfu.l,miferable and wretch -, ed man and yet,in refpe& of his grace, he looks at, and proclaims himfelf to be a happy man through Chrif#'Je - fuse° and on that account heartily thanks God. I grant S tI?it

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