Simile. When there· gener.atepart js -overcome. . O .F M AN s · r~led by ·finne, that dwdleth in me, then! fin ne and fall ba~ke: but, btherwife, I fay, a godly man, while he is himfdfe, never relapfeth imo _any finne, he cannot finne, becaufe he is borne of God, he keepcs him{elfe that the evill one · touch him not; the ground of which is, be– caufe while heis himfelfe, he that is in him, is fl:ronger than all the world: r Ioh.4·4.Hee that is inyou, isJlronger ,&c. That is, ifhe be-upon even termes, frill he gets the victory. But now let tnere be an inequaiitie, let him not be himfelfe, let there be fome violent tranf- · portation from the fldh, fo that he is led cap– dueby it, now he _is overcome: for he is not · himfelfe in fuch a cafe; it is, as Paul faith of himfelfe, the good I would doe, that doe I not, and theeviUthat I wouldnot doe, that doeT· that, as youfee in a Combate betweene two, fuppofe thatonethatwerethe fironger, and were it up.; · on equall termes,would carry the viaory; not- · withftanding,when his adverfary gets the hill, and hath the wind ofhim, he overcomes him, and leades him captiue : [o it is in this cafe; the Spirit, the regenerate part, though it might and would alwayes get the better,wereit upon equall termes with the fldl1; yet, when the fldh ihall get the hill, as itwer.e, get upon the hill oftem.ptation, and fh allhave wiQdto drive the finoke upon the face and eyes of the Com– batant, that is, to blinde him; in fuch a cafe, vponfuch a diiadvantage, he is overcome, and fallsinto finne : And thereforeyou fee how the · Apofiie
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