8 2 The Yryall of away : So much mortiFédnefl fo much confiancie : therefore in the 5, Gal.' 5,16. when in the 15.ver. he had laid , Thofe that are Chrifls have crucified the afa-lions with the lusts, he addes in the 16. ver. If we live in the F irit, let u, walke in the s, fiirit : the word imports a being confiant in the fpirit. Then when lugs are cruci- fied, then the holy Spirit will rule us in our wayes, and a holy frame of 14 art will be difcovered, in a confiant trai ofholineffe we, ihall rtialkin thef/iirit,kcep our felves long in a fpirituali frame and courfe, and not be biafed afide : that we Rep out fo much , is ttrong lulls unmortified. 4; Fdurth'y, the more a man comes to a fpirituall tafie of the fpirituill Word , and that which is moll fpirituall therein, the more it is a Ggne that corruption is purged out : when a man comes to'his ílomach, it is a figne he is growing out of a ficknefhe, and that the humours are much purged out. So 1 Pet. 2. i. Lay- ing afide all malice. c. as Bates defre the Word, that ye may grow thereby, iffo be ye have tailed : therefore the more corri ption is laid afide, the more we tafle the Word, and God in it ; the more we talle, the more we delre it ; the more we delire it the more we grow. S Fiftly, when we are afhaned of former carriages and wayes, as Peeing and difcerning thofe weaknefiès we law not afore, as Scholars ufe to be of their exercifes a yeare or two after; fo if we be afhamed offormer prayers, hearings, &c. as that great Proficient, difcerned in himfelfc, who looking back upon his fir fl dayes of converfion, fayes, when I tr,zr a child, IBlake a's a child : He fpeaks it, applying it to his growth ofgrace. 6. Sixtly, when in ordinary times oftemptation a man finds a luit not fo violent and raging as it was wont, but more impotent and weak. Look to your fits offinning whether they become greater or lefle, for then a mans firengthor weakneffe is difcerned molt ; as the bodily ílrength is, when a man either goes about to put himfeifforth, or is atfaulted and fit upon. Many that are lick, whilf} they lie till in their beds, think they have a great Beale of f}reì gth, but when they attempt to rife, and walk, they fink down againe. As a mans weaknefTe to.good is difcerned, when he comes to doe and to ai it, Rom. 7. To doe Iam not able ; fo.a mans weakneffe to finne, or tlrengtth againíl it, is then alfo belt difcerned.
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