theEpifile to the Galatians. Chap.. 41 pore, becaufe he is ouercarried. Likewife thealle or execution ofIttThis n©t ordinarilyand vfually in the child ofGod : ifat a- ny time he fall , he may fay with Paul, Idoe that obich I hate. Lafilv, perfeuerance in mill dothnot befall the child of God: g becaufe vpon his fall he recouers hitnfelfe by new repentance. In this fente, S. John faith, He that it borne of God,pnnes not. te Ioh. .9. The vie. Hence it followes,that the lull of the flefh is in the child ofGod to the death: and conlequently theydoe not ful- 3 0 fill the law, neither can they be iuflified thereby, as Popilli do- &rifle is. Secondly, our dutie is not to accomplifh the lulls of the Heal, but to refill them to the vtterrnoft Rom.: 3.r el.. Thirdly , here is comfort for the kruantsof God. Some X 5 (man may lay,' amvexed and turtnoiledwith wicked thoughts,. and defires, fo as I fèare 1 am not Gods child. I anfwer againe,. for all this defpaire not For , if thouhate and&tell the 'lulls,. that are in thee: if thou refill them , and wage battell again ft them : if beeing ouertaken at any time, thou reconer thy telle .r.) by new repentance , they fhall neuer be laid to thy charge to condemnation. Rom. 8. r. It is here made a preroganue of Gods child, when the lulls of the Beth are inhim , not to ace complitlithem, or to hue in fubieetion to them. 1 7 For the flefh lufteth againft the fpirit, and the fpirit againfi the flefh , and theyare contrarie one to o another, fo that ye cannot doe the things whichye would. Thefe wordes are a reafon of the former verle, thus : Ifye- Waike in the fpirit, ye (hail not fulfill the lulls oldie Belli: for 3! 3 theROL and fpirit beeing contrarie , mutually refill and with- (land one another, fo asye can neither doc the good, nor the e- ! uill, which yewould. i Paul here lets forth a fpirituall combate,ofwhich foie things are to be confidered. The fill is, concerning the parties by Mhome the combat is made:namely,the tiefh,ancl thefpirit. The Alb. 2 5
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