The fallacious Groundofthis Argumentof -M. G's. variety ofthe fubje&s wherein it is; and is fometimes exprefr in tearnies of 427 Privation, Want andDeficiency, fometimes by Pofrtive inclination to evi11. In the Underftanding tis Blindnefe, Darhenefe, Giddinefe, Folly, Madnefe. In the Will obfitnacy andRebéilion; In the Heart and Affe&ions, Pride, Stxhborne- neffe, Herdnefe, Senfuality: In all Negatively and Privatively, Death: Pofîtively-Luft, Corruption, Flefh, Concupifeence, Sinne, the old man, and the like; There is nothing in the fouleofa man that bath the leaft influence into any A&ion as Morali , but it is wholly pof';etlèd with this depraved vicious habit, andexerts it (elfe alroayes, and an/y, in a fuitableneflè thereunto. Secondly thar thisLuft hath fo taken poffeffionof men byNature, that in reference to anySpirituall Aeror duty they are nothing elfe butLe11 and 4 FIefh; that which is borne oftheflefh isflefb, John 3.6. -It is all fo, it is all Spiri- tuall Flefh; That is, it is wholly and habitually corrupt, as to the doing any thing that is good. Ifany thing in a man might feerne to be exempted, it should be his minde the feat ofall thofe things which are commonly called the Relickes ofthe ImageofGod, but that alfo is flefb as the Apofrle at large Afferts it Rom. 8 and enmity toGod; Neither is it ofany weight, which is Obje&ed That there is in Unregerate men, the knowledgeofthe Truth which they retaine in ungodlineffe, Rom. r. 18. Confcience accnfìng, and excufing Rota 2. 54. The knowledge offinne which is by the Law with fundry other endowments which they fay doúbtleffe are not flefh. I Anf= wer, they are all flefh, in the fence that the Scripture ufeth that words The Holy Ghofr fpeakes ofnothing in man, in referenceuntoany duty of0- bedience untoGod, but it is either Flefbor spirit, thefe twocomprehend e- very man in the world; every man is either in theflefh,or in the Spirit, I{om.8. The utmoft improvement ofall naturali facultyes whatever, the mofr corn- pleat fubje&ion whereunto they are brought byconviaions yet leaves the fame impotency in them to Spirituall good, as they were borne withall the fame habitual'inclination to finne, however entangled andhampeted front going out to theA&uall perpetrating ofit; neither are they themfelves any thing the better, nor bathGod any thingofthat Glory by them, which at 1- feth from thewillingObedience of his Creatures. Thirdly, it being the frateofevery mansproper Leif', Which is the Fountain 4: á" ofall finne, two things will follow Firfr, That in whomfoever it is, in its compaffe and power as above defcri- bed, as 'tis in everyunregenerate Man, however convinc'd offinne, he flnnes withhis full and wholeconfent; all that is within him confents toevery finne hecommits; Unregenerate men finne with their whole hearts and foules. In everya& their carnallminds are not, will not be fubje& to the Law of God; their wills and all their Affetiions delight in finne; and this becaufe there is no principle in them, that',fhould make any oppofition to finne, I meane fuch a fpirituall oppoftion,as would really take offfrom their full confent; It is true Con/èiencerepines,witnefhes again$ Gnne,reprooves,rebukes, excufes or accu- les; but Confcience is no reali principle of operation, but either a judge of what is done, or to be done, or a morall inducer to doing or not doing; and whatever Confciencedóth, however it tumultuate, rebuke, chide, perfwade, trouble, cry, and the like, whateverconvi &ionofthe guilt of finne may fhew into the judgement, yet limit bath theconfent ofthewhole foule, Every thing that bath a reall influence intooperation, confents thereto, originally and ra- dically, however any principle may be dared by Confcience. To take off a- ny thingfrom full confent, there muff be fomethingof a fpirituall Repug- nancy in the mind andwill, which when Luft is thus enthroned, there is not. Secondly
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