30 b In hoc majer affei fa ef$, quod partem fèncen- tke fac,æ pro commodarurn noilrorum utili - tzte deligirnus, partem pro Dei inju,irr prete - rimus. Sal. ¿ . 3 y `T he fan fulnefeof Sinne. !b particulars, reserving forne exceptions from the gene- rail rule, and framing to it felce a latitude of holineffe, beyond which in their conceits is nothing of reality, but onely the h6tions and chimmraes, the more abltraô no- tions and fingularities of a tew men whole end is not to ferve God, but to bee unlike their neighbours. I deny not but that as oftentimes it falleth out in ill affcd}ed bodies, that tome one part may bee more difordered and diiábled for Service than others, becaufe ill humors being by the ref} rejected doe at lati fettle in that which is na- turally weaker : fo in Chrittians likewile, partly by the temper of their perfons, partly by the condition of their lives and callings, partly by the pertinacious and more in- timate adherence of force dole corruption, partly by the company and examples ofinenamongti whom they live' partly by the different adminiftration of the fpirit of grace, who in the fame men bloweth how and where he lii}etb, it may come to paflè that this uniformitie may be blemifhed, and force anions bee more corrupt, and force finnes more predominant and untamed in them than o- thers. Yet (till Ifay Renewing Grace Both in force mea- lure fubdue all, and, at leaf, frame the heart to a vigilan- cy over thole gaps which lie molt naked, and toaten -,I dernes to bewaile the incurfions of fin which are by them occaíoned . Thirdly, th t wh ;eh rifeth from Renewing Grace is conf fast, growes more in old age, hath life in more a- abundance, proceedeth from a heart purged and prepa- red to bring forth more fruit, whereas the other growes faint, and withers; an hypocrite will not pray alwayeJ, a torrent will one time or otherdry up and putrifie. Wa- ter will move upward by art till it bee gotten levell to the fpring where it &it did rife, and then it will returne' to its nature againe. So the corrupt hearts of naturall men, how ever they may fashion them to a thew Of ho- lineire fo faire forth as will rife even to thofe ends and defignes
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