A New Creature, T?hat.' 347 in judgement and underftanding. But wherein conf fts SE R.i17. the new man e The new man confi[ts in holinefie wrought in the will,which proceeds from truth revea- led unto the underftanding; fo when the underftan- ding , and the judgement isre6lified, thou art made a New Creature. Againe, when the will is corrupt by lulls , proceeding from errour in the underftanding, thou art in Rate of an old Creature. The old man Rands properly in lulls; therefore, faith Peter, 2 Pet. I. 4. Fly the corruption which ù in the world through loft : All the corruption of mankinde Rands in chefe inordinate lulls. Others wee may looke on as the Fruir, but this as the Root. What arethofelufs t' lohn fhewes them by three heads, , lohn 2.16. The lofts of the fle(h, the lults of the eye, and the pride of life. The old man Rands in thefe three. Take the fiat luf, even the tuft of theEye. A man lookes upon wealth to make him happy in this life, (I meane no otherwife) and lookingupon this, he lugs after it : Doe but reEìi. fie his judgement, and let wealth be prefented to him, as it is in it felfe, and he will come to be affected with ir, as Paul was, who accounted all but drop and dung, he will fay then, why fhould I let my heart upon that which is nothing but vanity :' I fay, when the under- Randing is rectified, youwill look upon wealth aright, and as you (hall fee it at the day of death; for then we are as a man awakened out of a dreame, we will looke on it then, as it is law. r. i o. Let the Richman rejoyce that he is made lore, for as a flower of the gra je, f f hall be vaniJh : The meaning of this is, when a man is made a New Creature,he is brought down in his conceit,wher- as before he thought himfelfe a great man, becaufe of Z4 his
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