344 Ancomitybe.o, twcenethe heart and the eomrnand. How the Law. is·the cau(eof finne. ' I: doethefeCommande~ents and precepts doe, when they are applyed to the heart of a man.? Saith he, they kill. Now that which kils, fights beforeit kils, and that which .fights mull: needes be an enemy: So then the Commande- .mentis an enemy : that is,_every man ell:eemes it as an enemy to himfelfe,and therefore hath an-enemy-like affeaion to it againe ; That is, he ' hates it,he would be rid of it, he wifheth there were nofuc~ Law or Commandementl he de~ fires it 1hould be dealt with as he would have an enemy deale with, he would haveit utterIy taken away ; When they grow in enmitie one with another,as indecde they do~, the naked Commandement and the heart are at enmitie: For the Commandement would have one thing, and the heart wouldhaveanother,there are .contrary wils, and there is a fl:riving be– ,tweene them, the one firiving this way, the Other that way, the one r~fifring the other, and in the end, the Law and the Commandement gets victorie; Becaufe the fling of the Law is finne: Now the Lawis thecaufe of finneas a ftraight Rule is the caufe ofcrookedneffe,For without the law there fhould be no.linne:Now . it caufeth finne: For iftherewereno·Law, you know, there could be no offence, no tran[gref– fion ; Becaufe there could be nothing againfr ' which the tranfgrdfton could come; This ·fin ne is thedeathofaman : So now the letter kils: But q>me now to theCovenant of Grac-e, faithth.e Text,it is aminiftrationoftheSpiriJ, and, • ._- ---
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