• .. . ........... y • . An Expojition, with,J!Votcs oCual in the Sc!ipture to call the bent and Jlrong propen!ion of the Soul either to good.ot evil: (pirit ;as We h~tve not received the [pirit ofthe World) I Cor.z,r ~.And the phrafe ofdwelling in us is ufed by the Apofile, and applyed to fin, Rom.7. 17. Neither is there any em– pha!is in the word ·to caufe it to be peculiar to the gifc of the Holy Ghofi ; for it only noteth promifcuouOy any intjmate abode. 3.The third Argument is taken from the beginning of the next Verfe. I anfwer, If you render it, But It giveth -wore grace, ' tis referred eo the Scriptures ; if He giveth more grace, .. tis referred toGod, men– tioned in Verf.4. Bmwe iliall examine that paffage when we come to Verf. 6. The Points are thefe : Objer"lhitt, r. I. Though fin be natural to us, •tis not therefore t!Je lefs evil. 'Tis the Apofiles Argument ~gainfi envy and lufr, TIJe [pirit that is itt us !ttfleth to it. Poyfon by nature)s more then poyfan by acci– dent : We pity that which is poyfoned, we hate that which is poy– f onous; -as we pity a Dog that is poyfoned by chance, but hate a Toad chat ispoyfonous by nature. We ufe it as an excu[e, We are finners,and fo are all by nature ; ah this is the greateft t~.ggravfttton: So David, Pja/.51. 5· In fin wcu I born,and conceiv_ed.'in i11iquity. Lord, I have committed adultery,and I have an adulterous heart and narure : We {hould fet againfi thofe fins with the more care, and be humbled for them with the moregrief, that are natural to us. Obfirv. i. z, from that [ Doth the Scripture fay in vain,] yet 'tis no where in the fame terms and . words: The Script~re faith that whtch may be inferred from the[cope of it,and by juft confequence. Immediate inferences are as .valid as cxprefswords: Chrifi proveth the R,efurretl:ion not bydiretl Teftimony,but by Argument, M01t. zz. 3 2. What the Scripture doth import therefore by good confe– quence, iliould be received as ifit were exprelied. Obfervat, 3· 3· Ctirnal perfut~s mak.! the ScripturesfPea/zin vain cu to them~ z Cor. 6. I. We bcfeechyot~, receive not the grace of God in V ~tin; . that is,the offers of the Gofpel: When the Word of God bath not an anfwe rable tffeCl', it i~ to us a vain and dead lecter. .Oh do not let the Scrip tures by way of comfort, counfd or reproof fpeak in . vain to you: When you meet with any moving paffage, as_k within your fdves, Wherefore was this fpoken in the W<;>rd of God? . was it fpoken in vain~ or £hall I make it fo? &c. . ;. · Obfervat. 4· 4· FroJ!l that [th~fpirit thflt awelleth in us] Some underfra~d . < 1C •
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