/ Offtek.ing Godr ·foce. wpich is another expreffioo, and this ~orruption is called a mans fdfr, becaufe it is fpread over the whole man; as the forme through thewhole mat– ter, and a man will not part with it, but fights a· gainH: every thing,fightsagainfl: it as ific were him- ~~~. ' And {econdly, that the other regenerate part is called a mans felfe, which agodly m~n reckons fo rather t~en the other, we havean e:xprdfepbice for it, Rom. 7· It is not I, hut. firme thAt tlwtflsin mee~ that is, ~ot the regeneratepart which I account-my . felfe, but linne which I account but an inmate i dwelling within my roofe ; which yet is called a mans f~lfe, for the like re'J,fon aforefaid, b~caufe. fpread over the whole II].an; and now it is·eafie to. conceiv~, how the prefervation of himfelfe may fiand, with e:xp.ofing himfdfe to defiruetion, arid how a. m~n m~y feeke the Lord in oppofitioh to himfelfe. · · , .. . . In that which the fldh defires, a man·is l1ound not to [eeke himfeJfe, that is, .not that felfe, b\Jt yet he may feeke thegood of his other (elfe, and feeke the Lord too~ for Gods will :lnd it areunifons, and he may be faid to {teke Gods face ~lone, thorgh he fedes the delire of th~t {eife: for there is no dif– feresce~ no oppofition bctwcene them ; and like– wife that regenerate fel(e may feeke hi!Jl in oppofi- , rion to~ha~ other felfe; that is)whatit deftres,when it de fires amiffe (for allthofe defires'Which area– mi1fe are from that fldhly felfe) ~ nd fo we mull not · defire what ourfelv.es would defire, put defiroy) t, and the dcfires ofit, and fecke theLord) noppofi· . . L J tion 4 ' /
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