Of INDWELLING SIN. 5 ° c. the law of their nature, as a stone to go upwards, or the fireto defcend, is in its kind, the greateft violence of which the degrees areendlefs.. Now that which should take a great Inilttone, and fling it upwards into, the air, all would acknowledge to be a matter of wonderful force, power, and efficacy. - TN Ian alfo bath his law of operation and working concreated with him. And this may be considered two ways ; either, firff, as it is common to him with other creatures; or as peculiar, with reference urns that fpecial end far which he was made. Same things are, I fay, in this law of nature common to man with other creatures; as to nauriíh their young, to live qui- etly with them of the fame kind and race with them ; to feek and follow after that which is good for theta in that hate and condition wherein they are created. Thefe are things which all brute living creatures have in the law of their nature, sr man alfo hash. But now betides theft things, man being created:in au efpecial manner to give glary to God by rational and moral obedience, and fo to obtain a reward in the enjoyment of him. There are many things in the law of his creation that are peculiar to him; as to love God above all ; to Peek the enjoyment ofhinnas his chiefeft good and 1aí1 end, to enquire after his mind and will, and to yield obedience, and the like, , All which are part of the law of his nature. Now tilde things are not diftinguifhed fo, as though a man might per- form the aftions of the law of his nature, which are common to himwith other creatures, merely from the principles of his nature as they do; hHt the law ofhis dependance upon God, and doing all obedience unto him, paffeth on them alfo. He can never be confidered as a inert creature made for the glory of God, by rational, moral, obedience ; rational, becaufe by him chofen, and performed With reafon ; and moral, becaúfe regulated by a law whereunto reafon doth attend. For instance, it is common to map with other creatures, to take care for the nourishingof his children, of the young helpless ones that receive their being by Brim. There is implanted in him, in the principles of his nature concreated with them, a love and care for them ; fo is it with other living creatures. Now let other living creatures anfwer this inftinçt and inclination, and be not hardned againft them like the foolifla Oftridge, unto whom God hath not imparted this na- tural wifdom, yob atatatix. 16, 17. they fully anfwer the law oftheir creation. With man it is not fo ; it is not enough for him to anfwer the initial and fecret impulfe and inclination ofhis nature and kind, as in the nourishing of his children ; but he muff do it alto in fubjeecion to God, and obeyhim therein, and doing it unto his glory; the law of moral obedience patting over all his whole being, and all his operations ; but in theft things lie, as it were, the whole of a man, namely in the things which are implanted in his nature as a creature, common to him with all other living creatures, feconded by the command or will of God, as he is a creature capable of yielding moral obedience, and doing all things for his glory. That then, which shall drive and compel a span to tranfgrefs this law of his nature, which is not only as to throw viil/fanes ppwtrds, to drive beasts from taking care of their young, to take from cattle of the fame kind theherding ofrhemfelves in qutetnefs, but moreover, to salt off what lies ialaine his fundamental dependance on God, asa-creature made toyieldh m obedience, mutt needs be efteemed ofgreat farce and efficay. Now this is frequently done iby indwelling fn, jo perfons unregenerate. Let us take fume few inftances. (i.) There is nothing that is more,deeply inlaid in the principlesof the natures of Alliring.Creatures, and fo ofm m lrinsfelf, than a love unto, and L111I1 a
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