5 4 -mssDoótrine o fMorts ncation, Firff, the-Reafonor Wifdore being firffenlight. ned, it reftsnot there, but,flpwes by a redoundancy unto the otherfaculties,and thereupon;may takeaway thole lets and impediments untogood:as thus,Where. asignoranceor infidelitywas formerly a hinderance untopod things, making him that was ignorant, un- capableofthemyfteries of lalvation, fo that hecould not beleeve the promifes oftheGofpell, he couldnot bringhiswill and affedions to embrace the truth ; which ignorance is now taken awayby that light that iscommunicated unto himby theunderffanding. Secondly,although theunderifanding cannot remove fcareandanger, becaufe theyare quahities of nature, and evill difdofitionsof the foule, which it gotbyA- dams fall; yet itmay hinder thegrowthofthem,itmay simile. withftand theadionsofthem. Asa Pylot cannot hin- der the ragingof the Seas , it is not in hispower to makethemcalme, yet hecan, by dingmeanes,doe fo much asto fave his flip : fo aregenerate man,though hecannot flay his impatient anger and feare, yet hee may keepe himfelfe from the actionsof impatient an- ger, and fo bridle his immoderate feare, that heemay not be diflraded with it. Thirdly,the underffanding may doe much good by 3 inflrudions,when it isrenewed,and therfore it comes many times that thereff of the faculties areovertur- ned by the reafen; as thus, when the will and affe- ffionsare immoderately let upon a wrong object, the mindecomes and infruc`Is thewill and affections of thevileneffe of the objea, and thedanger that will enfue ; and thencontrarily informing themofgrace, propoundethheavenly objedts unto them ; hereupon they
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