to the E P H E S I AN S. New, allis become New,faith he ; not a fiick, not a !ludshat was ina man's Na- ~ turale!latewiH ferve.'afterward more, than the Soul and the Faculuesof n, All Sermon Old thingspafs away! flnd all are become. New. . XXI V, Now, my Brethren, will you c<imparelt With theCreatton, that you may fee~ it is a thing far exceedeth it: God lhewethforrh power m Crcatmg ; he fi1eweth forth heregreattuj! of power, and excudmggreatttejs of power; lt Will appear before we have done. . Herein lay the Power of God in the Creation,that hecre~ted fomething out of nothing as it is Ron;-4- 17. He callfd thwgs that bnt~t,AJ if they were; yet that is made ~ven an'd equal with the railing ol the 'Deadm that v.ery place. But here is a calling things that are to tJothitJg tir!l,and when he bath done that,then there is a calling things that arc out of tJotht.ng, There IS a doubhng of h1s Power m this there is not only a calling things out of nothmg, but there IS a bringing to n~rbing Old things. Now it is a Rule in Politicks, and it hold~rh true in Philo– fophy likewife, Ejujdempotr,flatis efl deflruere CllJ"s efl co11jhtuere, the fame Power that goeth to m~keLaws is it which de!lroyeth Laws, difanrmllcth Laws; there is as much power goeth to bring Old things to nothing, as there is to create New things out of nothing. Now then here is a double Power you fee,here is not only power, but greatnefs of power, it will come to exceeding grentnefs anon. > The Converiion of a-Sinner is not expre!lonly by pwtting in a11ewheart, but the Scripture doth ufually exprefs it by de!lroying Old th111gs, and as much by that as the otber, becaufe the power of God is feen as much in that as in working Grace, that is, as in working Grace fimply, it is not but that the working of Grace is at the fame time with this de!lroying Old things; but it is to 1l1ew that there is a doubling of his power in it. It is more than to create Grace in Adamor in the Angels. He therefore calleth it the deflroyingof the6ody of' .fill, Rom.j.6. The circtlmcijion of the heart, he cutteth off fomething, Colqb':2,1 1. the 1aktng away of the Vmt. l might give you many like ln!lances. In one word, f do paralle!Juflificationand SmtflijicatioiJ together, There go. eth more to ju!lifie a Sinner, than went toju!lifie an Angel that never fell, or A– dam in lnnocency, There is not only an Active gbedience, 'Do this and live; but there is a farisfaCI:ion to the punilhmentof the Law, which was an Appendix to the Law; there is a paffive obedience too; if you willju!lifie a Sinner) ou muft put thefe in. Come to fanctification likewife, there is not only required a power to put Grace into a man, but to de!lroy fin. Therefore now, as when he would magnifie the Mercy of God in ju!lifying us, he menrioncth the !late of fin we were in: fa when he would magnifie the Power of God in Converiion, he coniidheth the e!late we were in before Converiion. So you fee here is now a power to create a new Creature, here is a power to dilfolve the old. Here is power, and greatnefs of power. Well, but confider ia the third place this,That the thing to be defl:royed, viz. fin, is oppoiite, is enmity to the Grace that God bringeth in, and to God and his ~~w. ltis,not limply to de!lroy Old things, to bring a Creature to nothing; but lt IS to de!lroy enmity. Jn the fir!l Creation, when all things were made out of nothing; there was nothing to oppofe,though there were nothing to help it. lt had no matter to be wrought upon, yet there was not matter to oppofe, for all was made out of nothing. But here,that which is de!lroyed is the highe!l; the greatc~ Enemy that can be. You may fee for this Rom .8. 7· The cart~nl mi1Jd( fa; th he)or mdee,d, the car11al diJPojitioiJ of the mi?Jd ( for the worci implietil fo much) u em111ty agai•if/ God;for it is not ji;bjefl to theLaw of'God,~teitber i11deed ca116e. Here are tw~ things (you lee) faid of the difpoiition of a man's mind by Na– ture. The lir!l 1s, It cannot6e}116je8; and the fecond is, Tt u enmity. In the fir!\ place, It camwt bt fu6jrf1. A Wolf will fooner marry a Lamb, or a Lamb a Wolf, than ever a Carnal heart will be fubject to the Law of God , which was the ancient husband of it, as in Ram. 7· 6. It is the turning of one ~omrary mto another: To turn Water into Wine; there is fomc kiqd ot fymbn– hzmg, yet that ii a Miracle: But to turn a Wolf into a L•mb, to jurn Fire into Water, or rather Flelh into Spirit; what faith the Apo!lleGal. 5·-~'2? Thc('r are contrary. Between nothing and fomething there is an infinite diflanC't:; but between Stn andGrace there is !t greater di!lance, than can be between Nothing and the reate!l Angel in Heavcn. To
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