The 7-ryall of yet, after their late converfion,had a fre(h experience of the dan- gers and temptations a man after converfion in his progrelfe is fubje6t to) are therefore apt to imagine they (hall continue'free from affaults, and think not that their lulls will get up againe, and fo are prone to be more cenforious of the falls of others : Sutyou, who are more#iriçrsall, to you t fpeak, (ayes the Apo- file, for you are moll meeknedwith a fenfe ofyour owne weak- neffe; and evenyou, (Cayes he) if you confider your fefves, and what you are in your(elves, have caufe to think that youalto may be tempted. t'fe, 2. Never let thy felfe anyflint or meafure ofmortification, for hill thouhaft matter to purge out : Thou mull never be out of phyfick all thy life. Saynot , Now I have grace enough , and health enough, but as that great Apoflle, (Not as if Ihad asyet attained, For indeede, thouhaft not) Stillprejfe forward to have morevertue from Christ. If thou haft prevailed against the out- wardatt, rat not, but get the riling of the lull mortified, and that rowling of it in thy fancie ; get thy heart deaded towards it allo : and re not there,but get to hate it, and the thought of it. The bodyofdeath it mutt not onely be crucifiedwith Chrill,but buried alto, and fo rot, Rom. 6.4, 6. it iscrucified to be defiroyed, layes the Apoflle there : that is, to moulder away more and more, after its firft deaths wound. Obfer. 6. That branches that have brought forth true fruit, Ged takes themnot away. The 6. DoLirine is, That thofe who are true branches, and bring forth any trae fruit pleating to God, though they have many corruptions in them , yet God takes them not away, cuts them not off : The oppofition implies this, he fpeakes of Taping away the other, not fo ofthefe, But purgeth them. It is an elegant Paranonsafia, ArE1) xxaodQj, which the holy Ghoft here ufeth. For an inftance to prove this, (wherein I will alto keepe to the Metaphor here taled) I take that place, Efay 27. where this his care of fruitful! branches, with the very fame difference put be- twtenhis dealing with them,and the unfruitful! that is here, is ele- gant ly
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