1' Rom. 7•(18· G11.l, s 1}·. in.a lefs degree, io all.;thedtlties ofholintfs: Whm rfJthiM camebe– fore the toro~ S4tt~n \\'~ t~t hu 11'igh~ h~t.nd reaJJ to·'l!~(tft. him, Z eah. 3. 1. Since the Fall ,fi.s fomc evidence of grace to find this contrariety ;. fl\la:e the admiflion of Go, sra.ce is more difcemedby the comh~u, r·heh byrlv::t~bfulute 'lt'War'}. Bat you will fay, Howdoth this War in a godly mandiffer from that in a wicked man ? The grour1d of enquiry is, becailfe CoruH– tion and common Illumination may make wicked men hate fo111c fins i there is in them aWar between th.e- natural light ofConfd– ence•and fenfual courfes, and their heartswill reproach them fiar grofSfins, or grofs neglect& I an:fwer ': There is a great deal ofditferen.ce, partly in regard of the Grcund1 : Agracious nian oppofeth fin as it· crolfethGods Ha– timfs, a '"!i~ked man as it cn:>flech Godt 'tuflice; the cne faith~ God hateth ~his, _,theother faith, God:Will pnnifb this; the one worlreth out of a p:iri.ciple of l:flve, the other of fe>l/1'J ; rhe one hat~th fin as defiling, the otbfr.as dMnning;; the one r as difabling himfor good, rhe other becaiife of iocomrnodity and fenfible inconvenience, o~ therwife they can prook fin well enot1gh; he doth not oppofe fin as i:c imerrl:lptech h.is c0mrnnnion with God: A \Vickfd »mncareth not to be With Go:J,jo be might befoc~ufJWithau.t him: ]nlhorr, in a godlym~n dae t~.:'o feeds and lilltures are oppo!ite i but i'l'l rhe wicked there is only fomt! f0rreign a.we irnp.rclfedupon the Confci– ence, and his di!like is rather from a prefcnt anger then afetlf'dhb t1r6-d. !. Ea:t[ly in. itegarrd ofthe- mJWA:er; inth~anefin is.oppo.fed voluntarily, wtllingly, re1dtly, becaufe he hatethfio, andlov::rb d.\e ComrJJ:mdmem; in the other Gods_ rejiraimt is more-grievous then corrupti{}n : The can~~j mi~J is enmity t:o the LtVW ofGed, Ram. 8.7-•· They fnarl ~t the refr.rainc, they woul.d beWillin:g lJ· ignor-ant.. 2 PetJ. 3. S;• Achildof God doth the evil rha:c h~t hateth.; but re– fifrance in wicked wem is lilo.trung bat th~ r1Gog of a atl'rna·l UziJl againfi an enf.igtrtNt-ed t-tndorjhmdmg. 3· Somecirnes ;,._regardof t:h'C·help; in the one the Spkrit waneth againfr the fl'efo, in the o~hev mofi commonly, flefo ag-ainfl: ftcfh; as our_fathers ctr(')ve out the Pi[fs by the.SatXom, fo they e~tt~ude one lull by acn0ther : h godly m:m rifeth agait1fr (Jo uponfuch confid.erations as the Spirit furrgef1eth ;. How.- c~n 1 do thJs Wick.!dnc{s, a-11d, ji·n agai'IJ'ft God! G~. 39· 9; bult q: wickedman is mofily.mQ\\Ied:by carnal confidera.. tio~. 4.• PattJ~ i.111 r·e-g4rd:of tbJa e.st ~a: Agodl-y mans- refifian~e JS
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