184 lr1editatirmJ and Difcourfe.r capacities, which here it is accompanied with; and Whereby it is weakened,, hindred and obftrncted in theexercife of Faith. And they areoftwo fans'. F rft, fuch as are the remainders of that depravation of our natures, which came upon us by fi '. Hereby our minds becz(me ~.vholiy ·vain, dark, ard corrnpt, as the Scripture reftifieth, utterly una" le to d if~~rn {piritual.rhings in a du'e manner. This is fo far cured and removed in this life by Grace, ·as thatthofe 1vho were darknejf, do become li;;ht in the Lord, or are enabled to live unto God under the condutt of a new fpiritnal Light communicated uritothem. · Bur iris fa cured and rerpoved in part ?n1y, if _is .not perfefdy aboli~ed. Bence are all our remamtng weakneffes and mea.. pdctties in difcerning things ~r)iritual and eternal~ wb :ch we yet groan under, and long for delive· ranee ftom. No footfi:eps, ho fears or marks that ever ir bad place in Otlr · minds fba:tl abide in Glory, Ephef' 5· 2 7· Nothing ihall weaken, difhub, or incapclciratc our bnls, in acting all their pow.. en nni~T1peded by vaniry?div~erfions,weaknefs, in· abiliry, upon their properobJeC'ts. T'heexcdlency hereof inuniverf<1lliberty and power, we cannot her~ comprehend: Nor can we yet conceive ~he glory and be:!nty of 'tbofe immixed 'f11irimal actings of our mirids which fhall bave 110 clo~ ll p011 then), no encumbrance in them, no· alloy of drofs accompanyingof them. One pure act' of fpifitual fi~ht in dike ·1ing the Glory of Chrift, one pure act of love cleaving unto God , win bring in more bleffednef's and furisfaf.tion into our !ninds, thJn in this world we are capable of. (2.) THERE
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