2Z The Tryall of their workes in them, that they are nothing, and have done no- thing ; and though before this revelationofChrifl,(as Chrift Paid to `Peter, What Idoe now thou k oweft not, but thouf ualt knew, fo) they knew not then that Chrift had wrought all in them, yet then they know it, and when they doe know and difcern it, they ac- knowledge it with the greaten exaltationofhim, they having re- ferved, even during all that former timeof their emptineíl'e, the glory for him alone ; flaying as 7eab did for David, till Chrift come more íènfibly into their hearts,to fet the crown of all upon his head. This I thou. htgoo -d -to adde, to clear this point, MI any poor fouls fhouldbe Rumbled.. Doet. 4. In the moltfruitfull branches there remain corrupti- ons unpurged out. The 4. Doc. is, That in the moftfruitfrll branches there remain corruptions that 1h11 needpurging out. This is taken but as fuppofed in the text, and not fo dire141y laid down, and I (hall handle it but fo far as it makes way for what doth follow. What (hall I need to quote much Scripture for the proofof it ? Turn but to your own hearts, the belt will find proofs enoughof it. Reafons.. That Godmight thereby the more fet forth and clear unto us his luftifying grace by Chrifis righteoufnelTh, and clear the truth of it to all our hearts. When the Apoflir, long after his firft cons verfion, was in the midst of that great and famous battail, chro- nicled in that 7. Rom. wherein he was led captive to a Law, and an army of finne within him, warring againfi the law ofhis mincie, prefently upon that wofull exclamation and outcry there men- tioned, Oh miferable man that 1 am, &c. he falls admiring the grace of ju[lification through Chrift , they are his firR words after the battail ended,[2(ow] (fayes he) there is no condemnation to them that are in Chrift : Mark that word [Now] that now after fuch bloudy wounds and galhes there should yet be no condem- nation, this exceedinglyexalts this grace, for if ever (thought he) I was in danger ofcondemnation, it was upon the firing and re- belling ofthefe my corruptions, whichwhen they had carried me captive
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