etiouo Safi):. oppofes it, as long as Grace is Grace, and Sits Sin. In the Natural Confiift Reafon fights but ex parte, only againft the grofs, carnal, fenfual lulls, which Rain Humanity ; in the mean time . the pride, perverfnefs, and defperate contra- difion, which dwell in the upper faculties, are altogether untouched. The Moralif Rands upon his own bottom, full of fell power antis felf- righteoufnefs ; and becaufe he hath by his Reafon conceived and brought forth forne Mo- xal Virtues, Free-grace and its progeny, born after the Spirit,are defpifed in his eyes ; than 'which temper, there is nothing more diame- trically oppofite to the Gofpel, which would have Men come in to Iefus Chrtft weary, heavy laden,hungry,tbirlfy, poor in, f pirit ; loft in them- (elves, and fenfibly wanting all things : But tin the Spiritual Conflic, the War is univerfal, :Grace fights againft all Sin , not only againíl the grofs carnal lulls which have more of the beáft in them, but againft the fine Spiritual ones,which have more of the Devil; nor only againft thofe open Sins which face the World', lhùt againft thofe fecret ones which lie hid in the Heart. So oppofite it is, that as in the War againfl the Canaanite!, it would deliroy every thing that breath!. Sin in the fart motions and titillations thereof, in the Natural Con- ¡lid., the fight is between diflind faculties, Reafon and Paffion, and fo is at a diftance,and as it were by miffile arms; but in the Spiritual Çonfliì, the fight is dole and immediate,there fo nehing of Grace in every faculty to en- .. oounte;
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