to the EPHESI ANS. 347 . Firfl, He fubdueth corruption by re!lrainr, k~eptth it in, which yet arifeth nor~ to a k>lling of corruption; there IS a dnvmg m of the difeafe, but hl! dorh not J'ermo11 take it away. I expre!fed this in my lafl:, I 1hall not need to repe~t It. Tht;ri fe- XXVIT. condly, in raifingupof corrupt Nature to good; there IS a w~rkmg upon It by~ way of allifiancy, ~heJOy~eth With corrul;'t _Nature, elevatetl1 It, whon yet he doth not work in >t new vHal pnncrplesol h!e. And meerly eo elevate and affifl: it, requireth not fo much power, ~r_at lea~ fo much power _Is not mamfefled; compare work with work, as there IS 10 puttmg 10 of a new pt10c1ple of life. For example, Suppofe a dead Body lay herebefor" us, you Jiight chafe It and bring heat into it: Let an Angel come and take up that bodjlll' It !hall fpeak, It lhalt walk, it lhall (by an a!fi!lancewhich he putteth into It,) perform al~ the aCl:ions of !ile · yet the Body IS dead fl:dl. So cloth the holy Ghofi pyn with corrupt Nature' he raifeth it up to good, to much good, yet the heart remaineth dead; becauf~ he cloth not put in a new principle of life? which is the thin!l in the Text; for he faith, it is the fame power that ra1fed Chnfl from death _to hte, putterh a new vital principle in him. That was the firfl: th10g I lhewed, and 1 was large upon it. . . . 'l The Second particular of 'the demonflratron concermng the oly Ghofi's working good in the. hearts of wicked men,in mm remaining !till in ·1e flare ofNature. to thew that It IS not the fame power mamfelled that IS man.fe ed 10 converting truly and favingly,. wos this; That ~11 ~he workingsof the Ho! XGhofl: in inferior work<, are but by 1mprov_wg_ the pnnc1pl_es that are m nature alr~ady, by adding to them, but raifing and w10dmg up to a htgher key what IS 10 the heart already without putting in a new creature; and fo it is bur by way of EduCl:ion, (that ·I may fpeak as Philofophers do, ) out of l'rinciples there ~!ready, Ex potmtia matrri£, as they fay, out of the power of the matter that 1s wrought upon, the feeds, the principles ore there already, or if you will, winding up of thofe prin– ciples, it i~ all one. But iJ! a faving work there is a. putting in a ~ewprinciple; and fo it anfeth to a way ol creation, and therefore It IS that there IS that exceed• ing greatnefs of power manifefl:ed in the one that is not in the other. And that is the thing that I'flJall clear toyou at this time, Confult with Philofophy, and Divinity, and what elfe you will, all will ac– knowledge, experience will do it coo, that the exrraCl:ing of any thing out of principles already, winding them up, flretchingthem, and not adding new, is not a work of that difficulty anfwerable to a new creation. As for example, To beget a Bea!t, and tobeget a Man. To beget a Bea!t, there IS as fome fay, but the raifing up of thofe principles that are in the feed of fuch a creature to a fenfi• tive Soul, through natural heat, a boyling them up to lite ; for what is the Soul of a beafl:? It is but the Spirits of the Elements, iris butabodilythliio-, and therefore of Beafis it is fa id their Soul is in their blood, becaufe the Spirits 0run ill the blood, and that is their life. But if a Man come to be begotten, there mull: be a new Soul from Heaven pur in. There is not only an exrraCl:ion, a wind.ing up of the Sp.nrs of tbe Elements to a Soul of fen le, wh1ch IS common to us with Beafls; but there Is a putting in by God a new Soul, a reafonable Soul tranfteli– dent abo~e all theworking~ of fenfe. Therefore Heb. 12. g. he callerb God, the Father of Spmts moppo!iuon to other Fathers that are but Fathers of our bodies.· The Soul of man is immediately created and infufed by Golf, Now then, all Creation we fay it is !IJtlepmdeuter a ju6jdfo, it is a work that dorh,not depend at all upon a fubjeCl:, it is not to work upon principles alrea~y, ro wmd up rhem; but Creauon 1t 1s out ol nothmg. Therefore Creation it is m• communicable to any Creature; God never ufcd any Creature to create, but he hath ufed the power of a Creature to work upon the power of 1he matter, to fiir up pnnnples already 10 Nature, and to beget fomething beyond what was in it at fir{\. As for example, to clear it yet further. The Sun in the Summer falleth down with the beams of it upon Mud, there is a natural pt>wer accompanieth th& beams of the Sun fo to heat with fuch a kindly warmth thofc principles that are In the Mud that aliving Creature is begot, for you may fee in Mud a great many fud1.thmgs crawhng that have life in them. This is but meerly winding up the Sp1rns ot the Elemen;s that arc; in the Mud already, and thefe Philofophers call ./hum,,!;a ex putrtd4· mattrra, tlungs begotten out of purnfied matter aod (c; ,r Y y <om=
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