Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P7 N4 1634

V p R l · G H T ' NE s. that if you make the manner. of: their over~ comming, the manner of theu. nling out of their reJapfes; you tball finde them to be in this manner;putthe cafe the fletb;for fome brunt .for fome fir, bath gotten the better, -notwith– fianding faith he) the Spirit lufis againll: it, and fuffers not.the flelhto dowhat it -would; .that is; . there is a · contrary fireame within him; whiGh rdifrs .thofe defires ' of the flefh, that hindes·them agair.ie, and leades them captiue, as ; hefore the Spirit was ledcaptiue :· In orhers it is nor.fo ;there may be·a certain€ .fixed: refoltr~ . tion, whid1 may refift.a firong temptatiorr,.as'· · a banke or a rocke refifl:eth a fl:tohg .billow: ·· but there is a great deale ofdifferenc~ betweene this, .and thofe rifings out of relapfcs that are done by·a ·contrary·fireame, by the lulling of · the Spiri_r-: forthey ha\le no fuchfpirit in them, to1ufi again!bthe ·flefh; and foto binde it; as it were,to overcon1e it, that they returne no more rothofefinnes,t9 which before.they_w.eregi,v-en • up -- Lafl: of'a11,there is·this difference betweene 4 .Difference, - them-; ·he that hath a perfect heart,· he that A.godlyman; wfien he is is- found-:hearted, - while hee is '·himfelfe_, himfc:I£~.6ns he never relapfeth · into any ·finne·.; marke it : nor.-· while he is himfelfe : which · note ·I ·· take out o£Romanes7.a place which you know: .Rom.1.~0• . It · i.r nolonger I, butftrme ·that dweUeth in mu : that is, as ithe fhou1d fay, I, \while- I ·am my felfe, never faU into any ·finne; but when I am ,difiempered, when I am . overcome, andover~ ruled 1 --------------------------------------~-- ~

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