~ 112. ~: . . ' ~ 4 , • i ' Of turning fr$m our e11ill 'll1ayts. himonrogood withounhislaw; as.ifhehad faidJ this law without might as it were be fpared to this · man, he bdng a law to himfelfe, but it isgiven,,. the unrighttous, that is, he would donothing with– out this, he hath not in himfelfea ftrong inclination ro what is,good,. and averfeneffe to evill, as the o-:· ther hath, Rem.7' is,. I hAtethe eviUthA I doe.;he .haresth~ evill which the Law forbids,and long~ af- · :cer what the Law c.omm:mds. ·The L:tw is put upon the wicked, as areftrainerto,keepehirn in;he lookes upon the Commandements,as chaines ;~nd ·fluckles; buc ·a regenerate man lookes on chem,. as upon girdles and garcers .. which gird up his loines and expedite his courfe the better. The Law con– fines a regenerate man t-o live in that elemenr,wh~re he would:live;as if one fhould be confined to Para · dife; where he would be,thoughth~re were no fuch law. ·But anorher mareis confined by it to-the place where he would not be ; .and to actions which he would not doe; _ and therefore as Shimti,._whenhe was-confined, he leaptover the hedg, comes over che pale, after profit and pleafure, and dyes for it ; rhe law given to him he reckoneth as a prifon i · therefore examine whether there be in thee fuch a confiant inclination to wal!Ce in the·way.es of g.od~lindfe, fo ~s you could even ·be_ a law to·your felves, if you are left t<;> whatthe Lo-a D bath wrought in you. _ . , . 4 They differ inthepawer that accompanies this law of the mind in a regeneratemim.: wherethi~ Law ofgrace is ·; there is not onely a knowledge-o£1 what fuould be done, but al.fothereis-a power-goes , with 1
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