netiou= Said). counter the corruption there. In the Under - flanding there is an Heavenly Wifdom which counterplots the Earthly, as Hufhai did Ahi- thophel,whileft the one defigns for Abfalom, the rebellious tuft in the Heart, the other Rands up for the Kingdom of Chrift, the true David. In the Will there is an holy Principle which bal- lances the corrupt,and is as a counter -byafs to the Heart, drawing it off from the falfè bea- titudes to the true. In the Af i äions there is a Divine (park, which makes them afpire and elevate towards Heavenly things, whileft the earthly part clogs and preffes them down- wards. In a word, Grace is fpread all over the Soul, as the Ifraelites were over Canaan, to drive out the old inhabitant, the corruption in every faculty. In the Natural Confliet, Man walks in his own Circle, the only defign is for the Kingdom of Reafon ; and which is the common blaff upon Morality, nothing is done in ordine ad Deum. In the Spiritual Conflict, the aim is all for God and Chrift, that their Throne may be in the Heart, and all their ene- mies there,may be made their footflool. Thus Grace, ufhered into the Soul by Faith, doth by little and little work out and extirpate Sin ; as the day breaks upon the Heart, darknefs goes off ; as Holinefs flows in, Corruption departs; the more of Heaven is there, the lefs of Earth. Thirdly, Faith difeover.r the great evil of Original Sin, and fo railes up an hatred againft it; and hatred is a murderer, and would, if it 4 could, 263
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