234 SIXTH SERMON the will unto holy resolutions : for the wisdom of the flesh cannot be subject unto the law of God, Rom. viii. 7. The flesh will lust against the spirit, as being contrary thereunto, Gal. v. 17. an uncircumcised heart will always resist the Holy Spirit, Acts vii. 51. there is such a natural antipathy between the purity of the word and the impurity of the will of man, that he naturally refuseth to hear, and snuffeth at it, and pulleth away the shoulder, and hardeneth the heart, and stoppeth the ears, and shutteth the eyes, and set - teth up strong holds, and high reasonings against the ways of God, and is never so well as when he can get off all sights and thoughts of God, and be as it were without God in the world, Jer. v. 3. vi. 10. 17. 23. xix. 15. Mal. i. 13. 2 Chron. xxxvi. 16. III. According to the degrees and remainders of this natural corruption, so far forth as it is unmortified and unsubdued by the power of grace, this original force Both proportionably put forth itself in with- standing and warring against the Spirit of God even in the regenerate themselves. A notable example whereof we have in Asa, of whom it is said, that he was wrath with Hauani, the seer, and put him in a prison - house, and was in rage with him, when he reproved him for his carnal confidence, 2 Chron. xvi. 10. and the apostle Both in many words both state, and bewail the warring of the law of his mem- bers against the law of his mind, so that when he did with the one serve the law of God, he did with the other serve the law of sin, and was unable to do the thing which he would, and the evil which he would not, he did do by the strength , of sin that dwelt in him, Rom. vii. 14, 15. IV. We are to distinguish of the will of God, which is set forth in scripture two manner of ways : there
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=