Preston - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.P74 S2 1637

Signes of a New Creature. r 329 have a new tafte, and a new relifh in thee : for if there SE R. 1 1, bee a new heart in thee, thou mayeft fee it outward- ly ; thou wilt fay as Saint Paul faid,. I know no man, or any thing after the fic/h , after the outward con- dition; this note will try it, if you apply it to your felves, after once the change is wrought, that you are made New Creatures , there is nothing that is i prefented ro you after the fame manner as it was, eve. ry thing is changed with you, as if you were brought into a new world, you will fee them to be other things than you did before; but I cannot Rand to preff"e Mis further. Againe, if you would know whether this be in you 4 or no, then confider, whether your workes be altred : I New for wee have a rule in Philofophy, and a true one, and tvorkes. we will apply it here; L4s a thing is in being, fo it is in working : If there be a new difpofition in thee, if there be another Nature, there will be a new kinds of work; for all things in the world worke according to their being, and there is nothing that hath an effence and a being,but the operations and aas of it are fumble to it : therefore, if thouwouldeft know,looke to what thou doeft ; It is not therefore thy good purpofes or thy good meanings, but thy doing: therefore examine thy felfe, haft thou left any old courfes :' Haft thou given over thy drinking,thy gaming,thy fin ofunclean 1 neffe,thy breaking of the Sabbath d Wilt thou fay that thou haft anew heart,and yet kecpeft thy old company till r That thou haft a new heart,and yet_ufeft thy:old fpeeches ¡till.' That thou haft a new heart, and yet ploddeft in the fame old tray that thou didft e Look what thou waft wont to doe, thou doeft Rill; thou waft Ì wa

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