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Believers
do not perfeét
Sinne.
C.
XV.
over
its
power,
as
to
its
aauall
predominant
exercife,
and
fenuibly
diffenteth
363
not
from
the
finne
whereunto it
is
tempted.
That
this may fometimes
be-
fall
a
Regenerate Perfon,
I
have granted before
,
and
what
is
the
difference
herein betwixt
them, and Unregenerate
perfons, may
be colle&édfrom what
hath
been already
delivered.
Of
the
next fiep
of
finne, which
is,
its bringing
forth, or the
a
&call accom-
¢
56.
plifbment
of
the
firing?) conceived as
above expreffed
,
there
is
the
fame
Rea-
fon.
Th
TH,
it
bringeth
out
of
its
wombe,
the
Child
of
time;
which
it
had con-
ceivedit
is
the
atlieall perpetration
of
finne
formerly confented unto,
that
is
ex-
prefled
under
this
Metaphor. I
have
little to adde
upon
this
head,to
what
was
formerly
fpoken.
For,
I.
As
they
are not the
f
nnes
of
daily infirmities
that
are here intended,
in
the
place
of
the
Apoftle
under conuderation, but
fuch
as
lye
in
an
immediate
tendency
unto
Death,
as
to
their eminent guilt;
as
alfo being
the fruit
of
the
hearts
conception
of
finne ,
by fomenting
and warming thoughts
of
finne,
with delight, untill confent unto it be prevalent
in
the
foule,
fo
falls
of
this
nature
in
the
Saints,
are
extraordinary,
and
alway
attended
with
their lofé
of
peace
,
the
weakeneng
of
their Faith,
wounding
of
their
foules,
and obnoxiouil
neffe,
without Repentance unto
death. God
indeed,
hash
provided
better
things for them,
but
for themfelves,
they have done their endeavour, to
de-
ftroy their own
foules.
2.
That
God never fuffereth
his Saints
to
fall
thus,
but
it
is
for
the
ac-.
complifhment
of
fome
very glorious end
of
his, in
their
affii&ions,
trialls,
pa-
tience, humiliation,
which
he
will
bring about. Thefe ends
of
God are many
and
various:
I
(hall
not
enter into
a
particular
difcourfe concerning them.
3.
That
an
impenitent
continuance
in,
and
under
the
guilt
of
'fuch a
finne,
is a
fore
figue
of
an
heart,
that
neither hath
,
nor
ever had
any
true
faith.
In
others,
there
is
a
truth
of
that
of
Au
fain,
who
affirmed,
that
he dared
fay,
that
it
might be good for fome, to have fallen into fome eminentparticular
finne,
for their humiliation and caution
all
their
dales.
q..
That
this
frequent
conception
of
finne,
and bringing
of
it
forth,
in
per*
fops
who
have been heightned by convi
&ion
to
a
great regularity
of
walking
and
converfation,
is
the
means, whereby
they doe
goe forth
unto that
which
is
mentioned
in
the
laft place; which
is
finifhing
of
finne
;
that
is,
fo
to be
brought under the power
of it,
as
to
compleate
the
whole
worke
of
finne.
Now
men
bring
it
forth by the
temptations,
and upon
the
furprifalls
fore-
mentioned;
but
they that
come
to
finifh
it, or doe
the
worke
of
it,
in
them
it
will
bring forth death. This
I
take
to
be the
intendment
of
that
expreffion,
A(.
itl,
t,
fa2iT£
T£
a
&Ñs,finneperfeaed,
The
word
'Aroro
v, is
no where
ufed in
the NewTeftament Taro,
&
ao-aE
V,'
are;
there
is
T
mteop
T£wHV,
which
is
,
not
to
doe
any
one
a&
which
the
Law
requireth ,
but
to
walke
ftudioufy, and
conftantly, according to the rule thereof:
and
foT£T£7,,
as
the
Apoftle ufeth
it
Philip:
I.6.
where we tranflate it
, as
here
'Agin£
£iv,
To
perfeel the good
worke,
is
to
walke
in
theway
of
Grace, and the
Gofpell
,
unto the
end.
So
to
perfell
finite,
is
to
fulfill
the
ivorke
of
finne, and
to
walke
in
the
way
of
finne,
to
be under the dominion and reigne
of
finne fo
far,
as
to
be carried out
in
a
elude
of
finning; and this
is
that alone,
which we
exempt
Believers
from;
which
that
they are exempted from,
unto
all
that
hath formerly
been
fpoken,
I
thall adde
the
confideration
of
one place
of
Scripture, being
turned
afide
from
my
thoughts
of
handling this at large,as
the
fecond.part
of
the Doetrine
of
the
Saints
Per
feverance,
the formerbeing grown under
my
hands, beyond
expeftatione
A
a a
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