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C.XV.
The progre%
of
Luís in
bringing forth
finne.
36o
is
ve-,
drawn
off,
or
drawne away;
and upon
thefeconlheis
ol'er,eaC5usv
-,
enticed,
or
entangled.
The
Firft ftirring offinne
is
to
draw
away,
the
foule
from what it ought
to
be
fixed
upon, by
its
rifing
up irregularly to
fome delightful!
obje
&:
For
a
man
to
be
drawne
away
by
his
lure, is
to
llave
his
Luft
drawne
-out
to
forne
oh
je&
fuited
to
it,
wherein
it
delighteth. Now
this
drawing
away,
denoteth two
things.
I.
The turning
of the
foule
from the
a&wall
reditudeof
its
frame
to-
wards
God. Though the
foule cannot alwayes be
in
a
&call
Exercife
of
Grace towards
God,yet it ought
alwayes
to be
in
an
immediate
readineflè
to
any Spirituali
duty, upon the
account whereof,when
occafion
is
adtniniftred,
it
doth
as
naturally
goe
forth
to
God,
as a
veffèll full
of
water
floweth
forth
when
vent
is
given
unto
it.
HennSe
we
are commanded
to
pray
alwayes,.
Our
Saviourgiveth
a
Parable to
inftru& his Difciples,
that
they ought
to
pray
mráv70l6
Luke 18.
I.
And we
are commanded
to
pray dharH0,,,s, without
ceaf
ng
or
intermit
f
on, r
2-heff:
5.57.
Which
the: fame Apoflle
in
an
other
place
call-
eth
praying
iv ,rtarri.róau
in
every place
:
namely
as
occafion
is
ádminiftred.
It
is
not the
perpetuall
exercife
of
this
duty
(as
the
Iewes
force
of
them
havé
ridi-
culoufly
interpreted
the
firft
Pfalme
of
reading
the
Lam day
and
night)
which
would
(hut
out and cut off
all
other
dutyes, not only
of
wens Callings and
Employ ments
as
to
this Life,
but
all
other
dutyes
of
the
wayes & woríhip
of
God whatever;
But it
is
only
the
readineßfe
and
promptitude
of
the heart in
its
conftantsframe
to
that
neceffary
duty, that
is
required; Now he
who
is i
sA-
xfitCev&
by luft,
is
drawne
off
from
this
frame;
that
is, he
is
interrupted
in
it
by his
luft,
diverting unto
force (ïnfull obje&. And
as
to
this particular,
there
is
a
great
difference
betwixt the
finning
of
Bdievers,
and thofe who
arife
not
beyond
that
height
which
the
power
of
Conviftion
beareth
them oftentimes
up unto. For
4:51.
I.
The
maine
of
a
true
Believers watching
in
his
whole
life,
and
in
the
courfe,ofhis walking with God,
is dire&ed againft this
of
=
drawing
from
that
habitual'
frame
of
his
heart
by luft and
finne. His
great
bufnefe
is, as
the
Apoftle
telleth
us,
to
take the whole armour
of
God to
hies,
that
finne
ifit
be
poffrble, may make
no
approach
to
his foule.
Eph.6,13.Itis
to
keepe up their
fpirits
to
a
hateof
every
evill
way
and
to
delight
in
Codcontinually;
and becaufe
they
cannot attaine in
this life
unto
perfe&ion,they
cry
out
of
the power
of
fin
leading
them
captives
to the
Law
thereof. They would have their
wills,
dead
to
fìnne,wholly dead,
and
have
trouble that
they
are not
fo,
as
to the
gene-
rall
frameof of
their
fpirits how oft
fo
ever they be drawne
off.
For other
perfons
they
have
truly
no fuch
frame at all,
Whatever they
maybe
cut into
the
likeneflè of, by
the fharpneflè
of
Scriptural) convi&ions
that
come up-
on
them; and therefore they watch
not,
as
to
the
keeping
of
it.
The
deeper
you dive into
them, the more neere
you
come
to
their
hearts, the
worfe
they
are:thcir
very inward parts
is
wickedneffe,l
(peak now
of
the
ordinary frame
of
the
one and other.
This
drawing
of
by
finne in Believers,
is
by
the
power
of
firing,
in
oppofition
to
their
Will.
Their
wills
lye againft it
to
the
utmoft: they
would
not'(as
was
(hewed,) be
fo
drawne
off.
But
as
for
the others
as
hath been
(hewen,`how-
ever
their minds
may be inlightned,
and their
confciences awakned,
and
their
Affe&ions
corre&led
and reftrained,
their
wills
are wholly 'dead
in
finne.
Secondly,
when
a
man
is
or
drawne,,away
there
are ftricken
out
between
the
luft and
the
pleating object,
Tome
glances
of
the heart
,
with
thoughts
of
finite.
When luft bath gon thus
farce,
if
a
violent temptation
fall
ins