;,5.6 ObjeChonsfromWea(nefi in Ditty, Pfal. but temporary only: Yea he thinks perhaps that fin hath more ftrengtb than it had before, becaufe he is more fenfible than he was before. As one that bath a dead arm or limb whilll it is mortified, endures deep cuts and launcings, and feels them not :. when'fp.rtts and fe.nfe are brought into the place again, he feels theleaft cut, and may think the inttruments fharper than they were before, when all the difference is, that he bath got a quid- n..eß.offenfe, which before he had not. It may be fo with a per - fon in this cafe ; he may think tuft more powerful/ than it was b:.fore, becaufe he is more fenfible than he was before. Yea fin in the heart, is like a Snake or Serpent ; you may pull out the fling of it, and cut it into many pieces; though it can fling mor- tally nomore, nor move his whole body at once, yet it, will move in all its parts, and make an appearance ofagreater mo- tion than formerly: So it is with lull, when it -bath received its deaths. wound, and is cut in pieces, yet it moves in fomany, Farts as it were in the foul, that it amazes him that bath to do with it ; and thus coming unexpeûedly, fills the fpirit often- times with difconfolation. 2. It bath allo in its adings an Vniverfality. This allo fur- prizeth ; there is an univerfality in the adings of fin, even in Believers. There is no evil that it will not move to ; there is no good that it will not attempt to hinder; no duty that it will not defile. And the reafota of this is, becaufe we are fan6,fied but in part ; not in any part wholly, though favingly and Truly in every part. There is fin remaining in every faculty,, in all the Affeâions, and fo may be a6ing in and towards any fin that the natureof man is liable unto. Degrees of fin .there arc that all Regenerate perlons are exempted from ; but unto fo- bicitations to. all kinds of tin they are expofed, and this helpson the 7emptation. 3. It it endlejs and refflejs ; never quiet conquering.nor con- quered ; it gives not over, but rebels being overcome, or al- faults afreth.having prevailed. Oft-times after a victory ob- t !;.,.°d, and an oppofition fubdued,the ibul is In expo anon of .,' ..-, Peace from its enemies. Biat this holds not. it works 1.)!.'; again and again, and will do fo whillt we live in . 1,1 á Co that no iffnc will be .put to. our ,conflict but deathby .
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