to the E P H ES I A N S. deceived by it; and now he is refolved to make fl~re work with him, when he ~ comes to fave him, and therefore he puts Man's falvation out of himftlf: And ~ therefore now, when he cloth work upon him, he works efpecially upon the Will; the Holy-Ghofl: fits there, as in the center of the Soul, and bath a chief hand upon the Stern of a Man's Spirit. My Brethren, your Wills are the flipperefl: things in the World, the fullefl:. of a lubricity, of a fickleoefs. You fee, Adam's Will, the it was fl:rengthned wrth Grace, and po1fed, how rt was overcome, how fickle it was. Therefore above all, defire the Lord to f.1fl:en your Wills, to hold his hand upon that Stern, always to"guide you; for if G 0 d hold his hand upon that Stern, if the Will remain firm, and be kept clofe to him, it is called, Arming 011r Mind, I Pet. 4· 1. The Lufl:s do arile, and tempt, (as they will do continually) yet you !hall not fulfil! them, they fhall be as Water about a Rock that breaks ; the Will keeps thefe Lufl:s from breaking forth into adion, and takes the Mind offfrom thinking of them. Thirdly; You may fee, my Brethren, wherein lies the Slavery of the liiofl: Obfm. ' • noble Creature. What is the noblefl: thing in us? O ur Reafoning, and our ' Will. Now you may fee by this, that all thefc arc enflaved to Lujh That Phrafe which the Apofile uled before, Wa!kjng in the L11jls of the F!ejb, here he turhs it, and C1ith, FH/flling the Wills of the Flejb, and of the r_eafoning Pflrt: It is not a Will now, it is indeed nothing but L11fh ; for that which he terms L11jls in one part, he termeth Wills in another ; fo bruti(h it is. The Will bath loft that freedom which once it had, and now it is in bondage, ferving Pleajims, ferving divers Lujlr, ( thefe expreffions the Apofllc bath,) falling down (God being now gone) to the poorefl: and meanefl: Creature below it fel£ Herein lies, I fay, the uttermoft expreffion of the Slavery of Man, that his Will is thus fubjetl: to the common, as I may exprefs it, tq all the bruti(h Lufl:s that are in a Man's Spirit, SERM~
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