352 Objeetionjfont Weaknef in Duty, Pfal. t 30, confcience, but by the clofe adhering power of Indwelling fills tempting, feducing, foliciting, hindring, captivating, conceiv- ing, reitlefly difquieting may, from thence have as clear an evidence of holinefs, as from a delightful fruit bearing. What is it that is troubled and grieved in thee ; What is it, that Teems to bealtncir killed, and deffroyed ; that crys out, com- plains, longs for deliverance ? is it not, the newCreature ? is it not the principle of fpiritual life, whereof thou art partaker ? 1 (peak not of trouble and difquietments for in committed, nor of tears and perturbations of mind, left tin fhould break forth to lofs, tharne, ruine, difhonour ; nor of the contending of a convinced Confcience left Damnation fhould enfue ; but of the ílriving of the fp,rit zgainfi fin, out of a hatred and a loathing of it, upon all the mixt Confiderations of Love, Grace, Mer- cy, Fear, the beauty of Holinefs, Excellency of communion with God, that are propofed in the Gofpel. If thou kernel to thy Of tobe only pave in thefe things, to do nothing, but to endure the Affaults of fn ; Yet if thou art fènfible, and Handal under the frolic of it, as under the ftröke of an Ene- my, there is the root of the matter. And as it is thus, as to the fubilance and Being of Honfs, fo it is alto as to the degrees of it. Degrees of Holinefs are to be meafured more by Oppofi- tion, than felt operation. He may have more Grace, than another ; who brings not forth fò much fruit as the other ; becaufe he bath more oppofition, more Temptation, Ifa. 41. 17. And fcnfe Of the want of all, is a great tign of fonte- what in the foul. 2. As to what was alledged to the nothingnefs, the fel6íh- nefs of Duty ; I fay, It is certain whilefl we are in the ßefh, our duties will tafle of the vefel whence they proceed. Weaknefs, defilements, treachery, hypocrifie will attend them. To this purpofe whatever tome pretend to the contrary, is the Complaint of the Church, Ifa. 64. 6. The Chaffe oftentimes is fo mixed with the Wheat that Corn can fcarce be ditcerned. And this know, that the more fpiritual any man is, the more he fees of his unfpiritualnefs in his fpiritual Duties. An outtìde pertor mance will fatisfie an outfde Chriflian. job abhorred himfelf ulna-
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