Epiffle ofS: Paul to rite". CHAP,I.15 - chers, if thegood husbandman fhould not ftlllbe pruning anddrefìïng ;t; them. 2. As man could proceed from an habiteof good to the privation of a rivationa it, fo can henot of hirnfelfe goc backe from this privation to the habit, adhab+tu,a nat feting no freedome at all isleft in any facultie of his foule to fpirituall aaturregretru ". good. Is the mind and confcience,and all things impure to the vnbelee- nr;R. uer, and hath his will any more priuiledge then the other? how er- ronious then is that doEttiaeoftheChurch of Rome, and the fchoole- men, who teach that mans free will to good is not altogether loft , but much weakened in fpirituall motions ; that it can difpofe andprepare it felfe to grace; and that it coworketh with-the graceof God in the verse full beginningsofgrace ? Whereas the Scripture teacheth , that aman is fo farre fromhis owne help in his recouerie,tlutt lac refifleth it, & ugh- teth againft it, till the Lord mightily fubdue bins , as hedid Paul on his way to Damafcus. The full degree or preparation to the cure , is the knowledge of the difcafe, but the naturall man will not he brought to acknowledge and confeffe his efface : Pfal. 14. 3. there is memo/that vn- derflandethhis way: our Apofllc bath elfcwherc alto ruled this cafe, 2, Cor.3.5.We are not fnficient of ourfelues to thinksathought, and therefore much lcffe to will : Philip. s. t 3. Lc is. God that ,vorkgeh in vs both to will and to doe : where we are not Paid towill aElitiely , but aóled, that is , fo "a "ttuc farre as Godmaketh vs to will good. Let ourpouerty then be hence ac- knowledged, Gods gloriemagnifed, Chrills merit amplified, in which alone weerecoucr all our wants, and arc railed out of ourgrattes of death. 3. Hence we fee the necefl-rtie ofregeneration in etterie part : Epb.4. 22.23. be renewed in thefpirit of your minds: confcife then and crie out with the leper, lan; vnc1eane,lamvnelcane: and feeingif Clad ft wafh Leu.t34f theenor,thou haft no part in him,pray with Peter,wafh me Lord, not my toh,t;s. feeteonely, but myhands, and head, yea my whole bodie, and my whole foule,my whole man. The Apoflle prayed that not onely the infcriour faculties ofthe Thef.3lonians, as the of e&ions,and appetite which are the feereof the foule might bewafhed, but vfeth this forme,7beGadofpeace farlftifieyou wholly. 4. If the wicked man be thus vncleane, then hate his companie ; the vilepeton is tobe contemned,come not fleecehim, touch him- and thou wilt be defiled, he is filthywithin and without, and with the leper mull Lca.gaq. be thruflout ofthe campe for feare of infc&ion. Before naturals Doétr. 3. Before this naturals vncleanenes be purged , euerie thing .nelearnesbt isvocleane vntoa man:the vnbelceuer taincecheaerie thing that he tou- pTr^fir, tlallIa IsWKiean cheth;nothing within him, nothing without him, which is nor Eollu- toaman V 4 reds_
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