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Believers
do
not
perfeé}
Sinne:_
C.
XV.
in, the
perfon
to
whom
it
Both
fo
befall, may
be
carryed,
or rather
hurried
36t
out
and firrprized into no (mall advance towards
the perpetration
of
finne,
---"
without the
leaft
delight
in
the
finne
or confent
of the
wit/unto
ir, if
he
be
a godly man.
So
was
it
in
the
cafe
of
David
in
the cutting
of
the
lap
of
the
garmentofsaul.
Luft
ftirred
in
him,
drew
him
off from
his
frame
of
depen-
dance
on
God,and
by
the
advantage
ofSauls prefence
ftirred
up
thoughts
of
felfe- fecurity,
and
advantage
in
him,which carryed him almoft to:the
very
a&
of
finne,
before
he recovered himfelfe.
Then
(z
fay)
is
a
mandrawn.atray,
not
only
in refpeer
to
the
7"erme
from
whence,
but
alfo.ofthat
whereunto,:
when
the thoughts
of
the
objeí`tprefented
asfuitableto
tuft are
caffiri,
though
immediately
rejected.
This I intend
by
this a&ing
of
:fnnne;
Which
although
it
be
our
finne,
as
having
its rife
and
fpring
in us,
and is continually
to
-be
la-
mented,
yet
when it
is
not accompaned with
any delight
of
the Heart
or con-
fent
ofthe
Will,
but the thought
of
it,
is
like a
piece
of
fiery
iron
raft into
water
which makcth
a
frrdden
commotion or
noife,
but
yet
is
fuddenly
quenched,it
is
that
which
regenerate
men
are,&
maybe
fubjeet
to;
which
alto
keepeth them humble
all
their
dayes.
There
is
more
in
this
drawing away,
than
a
finglethought
or apprehenlon
of
evill
amounts to, (which
may
be
without the
leaft finne.
7o know
evill isnot
evil!)
but yetis
{hart
of
the
foules
confent unto it.
The
fecond way wherein tuft
proceedeth
in
tempting
is
by inticing
thefóule,
4:
53,;
&he
who
is
fo
dealt withallby it
is
laid
to
be
,
ma
óp.ev
,to be
inticed.
There
is
fomething more
in
this,
than
in
being only
drawn
away.
The word here ufed
is
twice mentioned in
the
2
Epifile
of
Peter
2
chapter.
Once it
is
rendred to
beguile ava.govls5
,
4u2
ç
d,vtixl.s,
'or
54.
And
in
the
other
alluring
v.18.
It
commeth (as
is
commonly
known)
from
o£r.a4,
a
bait,
which
is
from
obrsap,
or
v
ap- deceit,
becaufe
the
end
of
a
bait
is
to
deceive,
&
to
catch by deceiving.
ThenceJ`itad.,,
is
to
intice,
to
allure,
to
intangle, as
men
do ffhes, and
birds
with
baits.
That
which by this expreffion
the
Holy Ghoft
intendeth,
is
the
prevalency
of
Lafi
in
drawing the
foule
unto
that,
which
is
by
the
Cafuifts
termed
Delellatio
morofa
a
'ecret
delight in
the
evil!, abiding
force fpace
upon it.
So
that
it would do
that
which
it
is
tempted
and inticed
unto,
were
it
not forbidden
;
as
the
fzfb
liketh the
bait well
enough,but
is
affraid
of
the
Hooke.
The
foule for
a
feafon
is
captivd
to
like
the
(inne,
and
fo
is
under the power
of
it,
but
is
affraid
of
the guilt.
It
fticketh only at
this,
how
(ball
it
do
this great thing
and
finne
againg
the Lord.
Now though the
mind never
frame any
intention
of
fulfilling
the
evil!,
wherewith the foule
is
thus
intangled,
or
ofcommitting that
finne
whereunto
it
is
allured
and
inticed,
yet the
affe
&ions
having been
call
into the
mould
of
fin
for
a
feafon,&
con-
formed unto
it by
delight, (which
is
the conformity
of
the
affeftions
to
the
thing delighted
in) This
is an
high
degree offin
;
and
that
becaufe it
is
di-
redly contrary to that
death unto
jìn,
and
the
crucifying
ofthe
flefh
and
the
lins
thereof,
which'we are continually called
unto. It
is
in
a
fence,
a
making
pro-
vi/toe
for
the
fielh
to
fulfill the
lulls thereof: provilion
is
made
though the
flefh
be not
fuffered
to feed
thereon,but
only
delight
it
felfe
with beholding
of
it:
I {hall
not
deny
but
this alto may befall
a
true
Believer,
it being
ebiefely
4.
S4e
implyed
in
Rom.
7.
But
yet with
wide difference, from
the condition of
other
perfons,
in
their being under the power
ofthe
deceits and
beguilement.r
of
fin,
For
firft
this
neither
Both
nor
can
grow to be the
habitual! frame
of
their
hearts;
becaufe
as
the
Apoftle
telleth
us
they
are
dead
to
finne and
cannot
live
any
longer
therein
Rom- 6. 2.
And, their
old man
is
crucified
withChritl
that
the
body
ofJinn
might
be defiroyed,
v.
6.
Now
though
a
man
fhould. abffaine
Aaa
from