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Yá 258 OF SPIRITUAL MINDEDNESS. passion therein, if they were absolutelyunder the pow- er and dominion of it : yet do they also know how to be angry, and sin not in being angry at sin in them- selves and others. Yea, what indignation; yea, what revenge, 2 Cor. vii. 7. Yea, God is pleased some- times to leave somewhat more than ordinary of the power of corruption in one affection, that it may be an occasion of the continual exercise of grace in the other affections. Yet are they all sanctified in their degree ; that which is relieved, as well as that which doth re- lieve : and, therefore, as the remainder of sin in them that believe, is called the old man, which is to be crucified in all the members of it, because of its ad- herence to the whole person in all its powers and fa- culties, so the grace implanted in our natures is called the new man, there being nothing in us that is not sea- soned and affected with it. As nothing in our natures escaped the the taint of sin, so nothing in our natures is excepted from the renovation that is by grace. He in whom any one affection is utterlyunrenewed, hath no one graciously renewed in him. Let men take heed how they indulge any depraved affection, for it will be an unavoidable impeachment of their sincerity. Think not to say, with Naaman, God be merciful to me in this thing, inall others I will be for him. He requires the whole heart, and will have it, or none. The chief work of a Christian is to make all his affections, in all their operations, subservient to the life of God. Rom. vi. 17. And he who is wise will keep a continual watch over those wherein he finds the greatest reluctancy thereunto. And, every affection is originally sanctified, according to the use it is to be of, in the life of holiness and obedience. 'To be entirely.for God, to follow him wholly, to

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