. ,, ' it :138 ~ .Oftt4rnirzg from our elJill Wfl1ts. • / 1 yoq have it nor,,aHd (!)by thinking choLl haft it noc when thou haft It. · · · . . · FirCt thinking thou hafl: not tbe victory when thou haft it ;. fo:r example, when thou findell: rhe finne fi riven againft, bufiiog and lufiing moreth:m at other times, thou therefore concludefi, thou hafi nor no·r fhalr not get the vietory ; when as now finne . is dying and on the lofing hand ; (as on the contra· ry,when thou thinkdl: all at .peace, thou mayefr he ,farthell: olfche victory.) Confider with thy felfe, cloth any man but a.regenerate man complaine lo bicterly as theApofile cloth, Rom. 7• thegDoa thAt 1 wouldd~e, that I dDenot, or as the fame Apoftlecom· plaines, l Corinth. u. ofthe thorneintheflejh ~doe you thinke that any but a found hearted man, can - COnle as he did With teateS tO C H I t S .1', that Cry– ed out fo to him, Lord helpe myunbeliife ~ can any but a broken heart pray fo earneft:ly as DAvid, Pf111. ·51. I o. for anew ;~nd A citant heart~ This deepe fenfe offinne,is an argument ofour vid9ry over it. This complaining is a ligne tkat we have the bet. ,ter of it : for what is the reafon thou cornplainell: thus againft it, but becaufe thou arc firiving againft it-: We know the mud that lies at the bottome of the water, troubleth not the water; but when they goe about tocleanfe the ditch, then the mud rifeth and defiles it,, yet then it is a purging. When one takes a fire. brand to extinguilh ir,by beating out the fire,yet then it is the {parkes fly mo£1: about: When we llrive again~ finne, we fede it moft, partly be· caufe Sathan hismanner is, to ren~ and teare,when he is going our, ·and it is the nature of fin alfo foto . - - .. do,. .
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