' . ' ' · 3 • 0 f turningjr~m our e'llill wayes. the Law of God, but with the flelh the lawof fin. This law ofrhe mind makes achange in tbe perf9n. Can :my unregen~rate m10 in the world lay,it is not I, but Go~ ifhedoth any thing rhu i>goJd,it 1s not -l he; if he do:h any thing that is evil!, ic is hee and onely he that dorh ic. A regenerate m:m hirmfelfe : never fias, that· is~ whilefl: h~ is himfelfe, be never i yields to finne,but it is his A.:lh when he is O.Jt him- j fdfe, and an unregenerate .man when hee is him- : felfe,never yields fully rothe motio11S'ofgrace; but a regenerate man, when ever he·is himfelfe, acts ac- , carding to this pur, he is never oth~rwife over– come, but with a fiwng temptation, drunke and : rranfparted with pafion, and when a myfr is before his eyes; I alw4ytsflrueinmy miNdthe L41f!o{God. 1 And therefore though he be overcome, yec with this differenc,e, that he loGkesup=>n it,as acaptiviry anca bGndage worfe then that of lEgypt. He dot'h not as that fervanr in the Law, he is not willing to 1 have hiseare boared rhrougt{,and to ferve thlt ma– ller for ever : whereas another lookes at fin as a Uberty, and the la:w of God as arellr~int,and wiili– erm it were n:ot, thol:lgh he m'a:y accommodate him~ [elfe by it ; and though he maydelight in fin for a while, yet withaU he delights in the Law inthe in: ward man, and that is the mGreconfhmprevailing lo-Vtercomming delight : fo as confider ifthere bee not another delight contrary to Fhe ddighting in linne, though at that 'rirne, when the tklhdelights in fin, it appeares noc, which yet overco_mes and outweares the other. 3 Rule is, confider the· rn~umer of thy·refilling · · · and ~--------~~------------------------~
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