IO2 The Tryqll of p; ine or pleafure ; fo true mortification is joyned with an atiive hatred that Ayes out againfl fin ; which corne from llvelineffe of affection to the contrary. Difference. Secondly, true mortification is joyned with a&iveneffe and life in the contrary duties, Rom. 6. I r. Reckon your felve.r dead untofinne, and alive untoGod. That falle li(ilefneffe is but a dead palfey that doth take thefe members offinne, but true mortifica- tion is with a new life, a refurreetion, arengthning a man to zralke fo much the more nimbly in the wages of God. Rom,6.4,5 Young Chriflians, and fuch as have a falf+e liftlefneffe and dead- neffe, you (hall find them complaine that their mortification is more then vivification, they will finde they are more dead to the won(', then quickned to God. True mortification doth not dull the fpirits, but Pets them at liberty, as purging the humours out doth it makes the body more light and nimble ; whereas falfe liftlefneffe caufeth a deadneffe, a dulneffe to every thing elfe. Thofe falfe caufes of lifflefnefle contract the mind, as a bladder that is clung, and dryed, and hu g up in the fmoake, (as David compared his condition-in terrors of confcience) but mortifica- tion empties it of the finne, and fils it with grace, fo as the mind is as full and wide as before, onely filled withgrace now in Bead offinne. Seventhly, a man is not to judge of his g " wth in mortifica- tion, fimp'y by the keenneffe ofhis aff_tlion igainft finne, though that is good and bleffed, but by his ffren?th again4 it. As there is a fond love, which is not fo %Tong and folid, which will not doe fo much for one ; or hold, if it corne to the tryall, and be put to it, that yet hath a more deeming edge in it; fo there is a keenneffe ofhatred, that bath not fo much flrength. A man that is angry fecmes to have more keenneffe of affeftion againfl him he falls out with, and in his rage vows never to be reconciled, and could eat him up ; when as yet a malicious man hates more f}rongly : So doe young Chrifiians their fins, having lately felt thebitterneffe of them ; and then many other inconveniences, befìd: s the contrarietie of them to Qod, doe egge on and pro- voke their fpirits againfi them ; but like as a fharpe knife that is weak, the edge is Toone turned and blunted, fo in a temptation, they are for all their edge Toone overcome : for all thofe con- curring
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