I 134 \ Oftr~rning, from our e11ill wayes. ro nature_, the Jpirit th11t is in m 1~/is after envie, and will doe fo: But confider,the Scripture offers more grace than nature is able to doe, ic tell~ you nor in vaine, that rhe grace therein offered is able to heale; chough the difeafe be hereditary, and is p;tfi natures cure,yet it is not pall: the cure ofgrace,v:tlis I o.31 .. It is fa idof C H 1t I s T, Himbath God rai{edupto he a Prince 4nd aSt~viour, t8 give repentance to I{raet, and (orgivenetJe offtnnes. When lufis are too ftrong for . a man, Chrift comes as a Prince and overcomes . them, for he gives repentaAce ; and the end of his · comming was not onely to give falvationJ but re~ pentance. Though Phyfttianscouldnot cure Na. aman,the Prophet could,though the Difciples could not caft out Divells, y-et Chrift could: And thefe– fore fay not, it is an hereditary lufr,and it hung long upon me,and I have made many refolutionsland yet 1cannot overcome it. , Take a man that is borne blinde, hee is pall: all cureby man, all P'hyficians wiU give him over, and fay, he id borne blinJ ; yet remember that Chrifi did cure thofe that were borne blirtde and lame. This courfe PAul tooke 2 cor. I. 2. he had a ftrangeluft which hee couldnot overcome, he befeecheth the Lord to remove, for this I be(ought the L~rdthrift, that#might depArt, fo D.iviJalfo, Pfol.s 1.1 o. find~ iog the remainder of h1s old difeafe and finfull dif. pofirions, hegoes to G o D for a new heart; when · he could not make cl~aoe his heart, he prayes to the Lord, Create A c/t;t11Je heArt;,~ mt. So he in the Gof- . pell, I !Jeftech thee htlpemy unbeliife. Thinke not that all is done, when thou haft taken up a reioloti.. Qil
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