,Creature, Tbbat. SZR.V. but it; contest :,there. Npyt,.rhde _is, another nature Simile. which tare relrit :out, aslu$ gdoth mud, let mud fall in itli4e2 ; SEtrritti it will mulct ixr out, for it is a living water, gill working. So if a mans nature be changed, if fi man .f .liter nçte, y tthere is a Spring, and that na. sue wil} eturne againe and againe, and worke it.our, if not today, it will to morrow,becauíe there is a Spring there. Againe, where there; is not a New Creature, it will fiver leave fetling till it have corrupted the whole. objeö?' tAti Objetion, will in I cannot finde this ehangcof nature, I finde that the fins I delighted in be- fore, I delight in ßi11; thofe evils inclinations which I had before, I have them fill, I finde not fuch an inward alteration; I finde that I can fupprefi°c them, and re- grOethem, but the;ehange of nature I finde not. This is a great O bje1ion, and needs an anfwering. utnf '. To this therefore I anfwer, two things thou (halt finde in thy felfe,if thy nature be changed, if thou have new in another nature in thee, though there be fomething in thee, that doth like the ;objets of thineawne lugs, yet there is fomething in thee that abhors them, though there be an inclination that carries thee towards them, yet there is a contrary inclination that refills them, fo there is fomething fill that contradicts and oppofeth them. And that is not all, there is, betides this, a vweakning ofrhe vigour which before they had, there is not that ftrcngth in them that was before. So that there are two things in every man that bath a new nature: Firff, though there be much of the old there, yet it is excee- dingly weakned and mortified. And fecondly, there is much new that was not there before. In every facul- ty,
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