Believersdonot perfeé} Sinne:_ C. XV. in, the perfon to whom it Both fobefall, maybecarryed, or ratherhurried 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 thecafe of David in the cuttingof the lapofthe 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&offinne, before he recovered himfelfe. Then (zfay) is amandrawn.atray, notonly in refpeer to the 7"erme fromwhence, but alfo.ofthat whereunto,: when the thoughts ofthe objeí`tprefented asfuitableto tuft are caffiri, though immediately rejected. This I intendbythis a&ingof :fnnne; Which although it beour finne, as having its rifeand fpring in us, and is continually to-be la- mented, yet when it is not accompaned with any delight ofthe Heart or con- fent ofthe Will, but the thought of it, is like a piece of fiery iron raft into waterwhich makcth a frrdden commotion or noife, but yet is fuddenly quenched,it is that which regenerate menare,&maybe fubjeet to; whichalto 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 temptingis by inticing thefóule, 4: 53,; &he who is fodealt withallby it is laid to be , ma óp.ev ,to be inticed. There is fomething more in this, than in being onlydrawn away. The word here ufed is twice mentioned in the 2 EpifileofPeter 2 chapter. Once it is rendred to beguile ava.govls5 , 4u2 ç d,vtixl.s, 'or 54. And in the other alluringv.18. It commeth (as is commonlyknown) from o£r.a4, a bait, which isfrom obrsap, or v ap- deceit, becaufe theend ofa bait is todeceive, & tocatch by deceiving. ThenceJ`itad.,, is to intice, toallure, to intangle, as men do ffhes, and birds with baits. That which by this expreffion the Holy Ghoft intendeth, is the prevalencyof Lafiin drawing the foule unto that, which is by the Cafuifts termed Delellatiomorofa a 'ecret delight in the evil!, abiding force fpace upon it. So that it would do that which it is tempted and inticed unto, wereit not forbidden ; as the fzfb liketh the bait well enough,but is affraid oftheHooke. The foule for a feafon is captivd to like the (inne, and fo is under the powerof it, but is affraid ofthe guilt. It fticketh only at this, how(ball it do this great thingandfinneagaing 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 mouldof fin for a feafon,&con- formed unto it bydelight, (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 untojìn, and thecrucifyingoftheflefh and the lins thereof, which'we are continually called unto. It is in a fence, a making pro- vi/toefor thefielh to fulfill the lulls thereof: provilion is made though the flefh be not fuffered to feedthereon,but only delight it felfe with beholding of it: I {hall not denybut 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 andbeguilement.r offin, For firft this neither Both nor can grow to be thehabitual! frame of their hearts; becaufeas the Apoftle telleth us they are dead tofinne and cannot live any longer therein Rom- 6. 2. And, their old man is crucified withChritl that the bodyofJinn might be defiroyed, v. 6. Now though a man fhould. abffaine Aaa from
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