CHRIST'S was rightly toucht by the Spirit indeed, he could neither ear nor drinke,Aéts 9.9.he could not be quiet till Ananrao came and told him lie was reconciled with God. Fourthly, When a man is anorher, and a new creature; Whofoever L. in Chrii it anew Creature, 2 Cor. S, 7. the Spirit of God, where -ere He is, He is a new spirit, and He carries with him a new heart, Ezek. 36. a6. He works a thorow change, and he renews minde, will, and affections, inclinations, memory,appetite, mem ers and all : He does not onely new- plafier them over, but he pulls a man quite down, and builds him up a new habitation of ,God, as Chrift told the Centurion, If I cone, I well heale thy fervant, fo, if Chrift do once come with his Spirit into any mans heart, he heales it, he works a mighty mutation in that man into an- other man, as Paul tels the Corinthians, Te were drunkards, but now ye are waJleed, ye were railer', )e were adulterers, ye were covetous, ye were unrighteous, But new ye are tmaf :d, I Cor. 6. 9, to,' t . As Paul (ayes, I way a blalpherno,E and I w« a perftutor, but bleffed be God, now I home obi ened mercy. Now I am not the man that I was; I was á lyar, but now, blefled be God, I have the lip of Truth ; I hated them that were godly, but bleiled be God, now they are the dea- reft people to mein the world. Fifthly, when a man does fitpernaturall good things; na- turali good things, a naturali man may do, without the ho -', ly fpirit of grace : when you fee a man lift up a hundred, or two hundred pound weight, you will fay, I, this he may do by nature; But if you fhould fee a mati lift up five thoufand pound weight, you will fay, there is more than nature in him : fo, beloved, when you fee a man loves fin and comes to be Yaine, and cannot abide to be firiét ; if he be fire a little, he is Toone weary of it, and layes it afide; you may know this man hath not the Spirit of God in him : but if yee love holineffe, and hate every evill thing, that nothing humbles you fo much as fin, nothing takes you up fo much as how to pleafe God ; now ye may know the Spirit of God ¿s inyou,Why î This is above Nature. This is another fife. Lathy
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