116 An E .-cpiJjition, With Notes conception and growth, ere it be ripened and perfected: We are fo far to abhor fin, as to bfware of the remote teHdencies, yea, to avoyd the or;ct~ftons of it, 1 Thef[. 5· za, If it be but maid colo– ratum (as Btrnardgiolieth) ofanilllook and complexion, 'tisgood to !bnd at a difiance. · , Obfl. 2. Lufl: is fully conceived, and formed in the Soul, when the will erv. 3 ' is drawn· to confent; the decree in the Will is the ground of all praElife : Look as duties come off kindly, when once there is a de– cree in the will, Pfal. 32. 5. I [aid I Will confefs my tranfgrejfi– ons :mto the Lord; Davidhad gotten his will to confent to acts of Rfpenrance, and then he could no longer keep filence : So, on the other fide, all aCl:s of Gn are founded in the fixed choyce and re- . folution of the will; !Will pur/ue, !Will overtake, {aid mad Pha– raoh, Exod. I 5. 9· and chat engaged him in atls of violence. Now this decree of the willts mo.fl: dangerous, in the general choyce of our way and courfe, for as Religion lieth in the[etled refolutionof the Soul, whm we make· it our Work._ and bujinefs, as BarnabM exhorted the new Converts, that With purpo(e ofheart they Would 11nto the Lord, ACf. 11. 23. 7.';; '71'eJ%a-ei Tlk x.arJ'I~~.~, that they. would refolved!y decree for God in the will : So,when cbe Apofile . fpeaketh of his holy manner of life, he calleth it, ?re9-9nm,, his purpr~[e, zTim. 3~ I o. So alto, the fl:at~ of fin lieth in a worldly or carnalchoyce, as the Apofile faith, I Tim. 6. ;Io. He that Wilt be rich ; that is, that hath decreed, and fixed a refolution in his Soul, to make it his ontly iludy and care to grow rich, and get an Eftace, he is altogethe-r carnal: AChilde of God may be over-born, but ufually he doth not fix his will, Rom. 7· I 6. I do that which I Would ;Jot: or if his will be fet, yet theie is not a full cFmfent, for there will be continual d10ikes from the new Nature:I confefs fom– times, as there is too much ofdeliberationand counfel in the fins of Gods Children, ( as you !mow DavidJ fin was a continued fer-ies and plot,) fo too muchof refolutifm and the \Vi/!· but this is inails of Jin, not in the courfe and jfate, their mann~r of life and pur· poj'e is godly..Well then, If lllfi haeh infinuated into yonr thoughts, labor to keeptt from adecree, and gaining the confent of the will .; , fins are the more hainom,.as .they are che more refolvedandvo– luntary~ Obfervat. 3· 3·. Whatis concfi~ed in the.heart, is ufually 6rought forth -in the hfe and ~onverfatton: .Lufi, when it hath.conccivcd, ~ringethh ·· -· fort
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