thenew Covenant. -...........----- ..-----..... depend upon the frailty andmutability of our ownc na- ture,and our life fbould be in our owne keeping. lithe pure Angelsof heaven fell from their created condition, to be moll blacke and hideous adverfarics ofthe God that made them; if Adam flood not firme with all that flocke of firength and integrityof will which he had in Paradifc : how can 1 who have fo many lulls within, fo . many enemies without, fuch armies of feares and temp- tations round about mee, bee ableto refill, and Rand ? Grace inherent is as mutable in me, as it was in AdAns, Satan as maliciousand impetuous againfl me, as againfl Woo: Propenfions to limeand fallingaway, Throng in rne, whichwere none in Adam; feares as many weak- was-more ; enemies as many temptations more: from the gracewhich is &policed in mineown keeping, I can- not but departdaily,, if the Lord fhould leave me in the handofmine owne counfell : even as water, though it coukl be made as hot as fire, yet being left, unto it far, will quickly reduce andwork it Idle to itsown originall paldneffc againe. We havegrace abiding inour hearts, as we have light in our honks, alwayes by emanation effiifion and fupportance from the Swine ofrighteoue mitewhich fhinesupon us. Therefore this isall thecom- thrt which a man hath remaining, that though I am wanting to my felfe, and doe often tume fromGod, yet he is notwanting to mce, nor returnesfromme, for the gifts andcalling ofGodarewithont repentance, RON.1 r 0 29. The heart of thebell man is like the wheeles in Eze- kiel, vifion, &eft, x .16. As mutable, and moveable fe- verall waycsas vvhceles, as perplexed, hindered, and di. flta6led in it felfe,ascroffe wheeles:in oneanother,grace fwaying one way, and flefh another, who can expeta fi*bilitie in fuch a thing ? Surelyof it felfe it bath none, but the conflancie and uniformitie of motion in the wheeles was this, that they were joyned to the living creatures; whoin their motion returnednot when they went, ..._........-__ In........Whoarr., .... -.--.+*.-.......
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