netíouo ,Taft,: hufh the tumults and mutinies in the Afí`edi- ons, and prevent many Thames and turpittfdes of Senfuality; but alas, there is nothing of true Mortification in all this, no, not in the Affections themfelves, which are not inward- ly changed,but only, as the Horfe and Mule, held in with the rational bit or bridle; much lefs in the Reafon in which there is a great deal of vanity, dark ignorance, proud curi- ofity, fle(hly wifdom, vain philofophy, hu- mane folly, and perverfe contradiction ; in all which,Reafbn will rather indulge than crucifie it Pelf ; but Faith ufhers in another manner of Confli &. In the Natural Conflict Reafon is General, and manages the War ; and as-the Reafon is, fo is the firength in Battei but Humane only:in the Spiritual Conflil,t.here is a greater than Rea f n,even Supernatural Grace; which being of Divine extrac`iion, bath in it felf a power more than Humane to oppofe corruption ; and which yet makes it fironger, it bath continual Auxiliaries from the Holy Spirit, which is always fianding at the right hand of Grace, as Satan is of Corruption, to back and flrengthen it. In the Natural Conflift the fight is in a Logical and Argumentative way only; and Reafon being corrupt, like a cunning Sophifler, turns about and Hands ever and anon on the fame fide with Sin ; but in the Spiritual Confli &, there can be no fuch compliances, the War is laid in nature, Grace in its very nature carries an enmity againft corruption, and irreconcilably, interminably S 3 op- 26i
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