i f o f 'I he fnfulnefe of Sinne. In tota ani ta, & in toto cor- pore condito- rem babeo patir 'deum, quel in me feminavit hoc beTlun Aug. lib. S .cont. Iul tan. cap .7. Odi quod furs, non fum quod two, infclsx ego, qui in me veneanturn mica: arboris gtiflum nec cru- cis ligno Aua cp. 1.6. Gonflifius licet non fit damn s, qua non per icit intem, nit tra - bilàs tamsn, quia no;t babet pacem. Aug. De2rrpt. er concnpif. lib, i, cap. z. fupporting truth and rightcoufnefe : his fleth prelently interpofech, his quiet,his fecuritie, his relations, his inte- refts, his hopes, his feares, his dependancies, his plaulibi- litie, his credit,his profit,his fecular provifo' s,theie blunt his edge,upbraid him with impolitikenes,with male -con -: tentednefle, with a fullen and cynicall difpofition againft men and manners, and thus put I know not what ill fa- vor'd colours upon a good face,to make a man out of love with an honeft butnes. In a word,good is before me, the glory,the fervice,the wayes ofGod :1 fee it,but I cannot love it ; I will, but I cannot do it ; I doe it, but I ca: not finial it ; I will,but yet I rebell;I follow,and yet I fall ; I preffe forward, and yet I faint and flag;I wreak, and yet I halt ;i pray,and yet I fin;I fight,and yet I am Captive; I crucifie my lufts,and yet they revile me;I watch my heart and yet it runs away fromme.; God was at firit the Au- thor of nothing but peace within me, what envious man laath towed this war in my bowels ? Let the Apoftle an- fwer this queftion, faith S. e,61.11. By one man fin entred into the world. That which I would be I am not,and that which I hate I am; O wretched man, in whom the Croffe of Chrift hash not yet worne out the poyfonous and bitter tatte of that firít tree. It is the patheticall com- plaint of Bonifeecius in the fame Father. How loth the Apaftle even breake with complaining of this rebellious and captivating power of originali concupiícence, .í- r C9 rya e2 Prow-G-, ô wretched man that I am, who fhall deliver me ? though he were delivered from the damna- tion, yet hee was not delivered from the milery of this finne, which mutt neceffarily arile from the ftirrrngs, and conflidis of it.Though lul} in the regenerate be not dam- nable, becaufe albeit it bring forth fInne, yet it doth not finish, and confummate it, for it is broken off by repen- tance, and difabled by the power of Chritts Spirit, yet it is frill miferable, becaufe it difquieteth the fpirituall peace and tranquillitie of the foule. But there is no great danger
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