A New Creature, ïbhat. 1 349 truth, as the other is corrupted, and comes from de- Sa tt. IIp ceit. So you fee what it is to have this new quality, to have the judgement reaified, and the luft diffolved. ' And not to onely, but there muff bee new delires wrought in thee. A carnall man over - values carnali things, and in fpìrituall things he comes farre too (bort, like a man that looker upon a banquet when his belly is full, hee hath no appetite unto it : So a carnall man bakes upon finne and forgivencffe. But when a man hath his judgement rectified, he comes to have many holy delires, and in this (lands the New Creature. Againe, it comes from knowledge of the Spirit. But, you will fay,we have knowledge, and, if that objet!. would doe ir, then they that know molt are beft men e But you mull know what manner of knowledge this Anfw. is;The new man mutt be renuedin knowledge: This is fuch k What a knowledge of holineffe, as the Holy Ghoft reveales makes a unto us, and except this knowledge bee revealed unto makes aa- ou our revealing is nothing we preach Wi edom which cure. Y g s P .i the Princes of the world know not,. neither can know. Take Ariflotle or others which are the Princes of the world for wifedome; they know not thefe things, nay, if they were taught them, they could not learne them, for they are revealed by the Spirit; and if wee preach unto you necer to oft, if the Spirit doe not reveale themunto you;it is nothings Wee fee that by experience, that a man that can reafon againftthere and thefe fins,can fpeake of the vanity of thefe things, can give twenty better reafons againfl them than ano- ther man,yet he feekes after them as much as any : The wile-men and ftrongeft wits which can fay molt a- gainft them, yet have not their lulls diffolved, when a poore
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