Of ·turning fromour e-liiB ~aye.r. nitions, and reproofes, and whatfoever belpes finne ~gainft him, hee accounts hisenemy. But you_will Jfay, if all this bee tobee done, I cannot fay; I .hare linne, for it hangs onmeecon. 'tinnally, anq.I finde an ,aptneffe ro delightinica 5 before. . J It is true, that tfiere is fomething in thee)the ll elh eo which finne is .as fuitable as ever it was : hence the aptnes to entertaine it,that is ready tobecomeas friendly to it as everit was. Yet againe the frame is fuch, as there is fomerhiflg in thee, namely anew creature, a new felfe, thy rt'generare part, t b tt hates finne with a deadly hatred, yea and the flelh alfo which fofiersir. So then this may be thy comfort that the r pirit that is in thee hates finne, at the fame time, that the flelh which is in thee deljghts in it~ If this turning unro theLord beaconditionon which all the promifcs are put; then it frands you upon to examine your felves, whether any way of wickedneffe bee found inyou; ifit bee, bee it grea– ter or fmaller, then you are not converted, you are lHll ;,. theh1ndof iniqtlity (iris theApofiles phrafe 1 -to Simotu..JUt~gtll; Alis ) thatis, tyed rp in it as in a · bond, fhackled in it, as a man fiill in prifori and bound in fetters ; thou art a fettered bond- flave : For when there is any way ofwickednelfe in thee, it fo bindes the foule,that aman is not able to runne the w•yes 1/ G1tis Com••ndtmtnts\ Looke backe · therefore upon thy former wayes, fearch thy heart as thro~ghly and narrowly as they did for the lea– ven before thePaffeover; fearch as it were for thy life, becaufe if there bee away ofwickedneffe, it . ' · 0 3 will o6jtfl, · ' Yfo •
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