Taylor - Houston-Packer Collection BS2755 .T394 1619

CyAP, 3,3, e.9Cormrtentarie vpon the 6104 red till they finde themfelues renewed in thefpirit oftheir minds. Hph,4.2i. z.IfGod haue let any man feehis error hereby that hecan truely fay that he bath beene deceived, but now bath the path of life revealedvii- ro him; let him acknowledge all this tobe the finger of God , and dill Pfau ioas. pray with Dauid,open mine eyes that I may fee further into thy lawe , for ,fo I (hall fee mine owne errors thebetter : and hide not thy commande- mentt. 3. Ifthou fee(} any man goe on in any of thele deceìueable courtes, pitie hìm, pray for him, counfell him, dealemeckely and tenderly with hina :,or thou wad alto in time pe0deceived. Serving the /sifts and diuerfe pleafteres, ] Hauing fpokeu ofthe corruptionofmind in menvneonuerted , now we come to the deprauarionof their wills; the which is liuely defcribed in two degrees. r. In chat it is a firm:he, and bath Io( the frecdome wholly. z. In that it is a feruanc to lofts, and that not co one but diuerfe pleafures. JYXicerrer. The word whereby the former is exprefl'ed is borrowd from feruanrs, who at that time vied to be fold and bought, and were meere vaffals whollyat the appointment oftheir Mafters,without all power in them - felues.Whereinwe haue the true portraiture ofeuerynatural! ran,who in his will is a moll bale feruanc ro finnefull lulls and pleafures , and can - Preewin eonfi- not but obey and fulfill them : but without the lead power rowill the `uel7 `, the leaf! moral! diuine good. Now that we may come rightly to conceiue tubieRs. !'i ÿ ' y ofthebondage ofwill, we mind firfl refiraine it to the right fubiea, and then to the right obiett. Firf , according to the fubieéts it is diuerfly confidered. t.In forne fubieds the will is confirmed and free ro nothing but good,and that either by natmre, as inGod himfelfe, or by grace, as in thegood angels, and inmen who arc renewed in the highdl degree, that is, the Saints departed , who immutably will oncly good andonly z well. z. In fomeother fubie6ls thewill is obfirmed and hardened in e- mill, and free towill nothing elfe; as in thewicked angels, and damned 3 men, 3. In Tome other it is ware indifferent as in menon earth, whe- ther renewed, or in the date ofcorruption. In the former ofwhich, as the fubie& is put inpart freed from the power of finne, fo is thewill : it is fo farre as flefh and fauouring of cheold than, free towill things be- ' loweaccording to the corrupt nature:and as farre as is is fpirit,aod bath a worke ofrenouation, it isfreed towill fupernaturall anddiuine things. But all thcfePubic &s are rcmooued as not that which our Apotile fpea- kethof; who not obfcurely fpeakech of natural! men and their wills fo farre as vnchanged. Secondly, for the tibial of this bondage. 1. We deny not in the will of

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