226 An Expofition upon mark ofa nun graffed into Chrift, and regenerate by his Spirit, to confent un- to the Law; when his fins can difpleafe him, becaule they are againil the Law, and good duties al a loved,andtherefore performed, becaufe Gods Law requires them : the reafon is, becaufe none can confent to the Law of God, and allow it, fave fùch as are born anew of God, whofe Law it is. T t M. now it it written then that the Gentile: d by nature the things contained in the Law, Rom. z4? So L. That place is to be underfood of precepts and rules given forth for policy, arid Government of Cities; For which perpofes the very Heathen forbid vices, and command boner things per - taining to civili life: and not of their daily converfation, wherein they were great (inners, either openly, or fecretly, as Paul accufeth them before,Chap.t,z. Befides, in their common life they did Tome good thinge, and efchewed tome evill, out of vain - glory to get pralle of men. T z M. But Efau, andCain, were dif- pleafed with the evils they did again!# the Law, and yet were no regenerate men. S i t. It is true, they were difpleafed for their fins,not for that they allowed Gods Law, which condemned their fins? but becaufe they begun to feel the dii- commod tiesandcalan,ities of their fins, and did fear further deftruaion. Se- condly, they were fo difpleafed with the evils they did again ft the Law, that they had no care to do the good com- manded in the Law, as regenerate men have; and that out of confcience and o- Eedience of the Law, and in one thing as well as in another. T a M. But Herod was not only difpleafed, but he did good things, Marke 6.20. :.Herod was indeed difpleafed with his fins, becaufe he feared the punifh- ntent, and not becaufe the Law forbad k; for then he would have put away He rodias his brothers wife, and have re- pented of that maine and groffe fin. Se- condly, though he did good things, yet not thronghly: for when the text faith, (he did many things)it implies that he Chap,, negle &ed other things which were as needfull to be done as thole which he did : whereas the regenerate that con- fenteth to the Law, doth hate, and re- pent of one fin as well as another, and allow one duty as well as another, though they perfe&ly never leave any fin, nor do any duty. T i M. Yet it is repotted of this Paul, that when he was a Pharifee and unregene- rate, he was converfant in all the rightcouf- neft ofthe Law without rebuke? S I L. All this is true: and yet did not he then con Pent to the Law of God that it was good. Firf,becaule his converfa- tion was unrebukable outwardly and beforemen alone, his lulls and inward motions being vicious and finfulI before God.Secondly, the fear of men, or the fear of punifhment from God, or both (and not the love of the Law) might and did move him to be outwardly righteous. Laftly,he was not furred up to the works which he did by faith and charity,either towards God or man.All things are quite contrary in the regene- rate, who confent to the Law of God both outwardlyand inwardly,and have a pure heart cleanfed by faith , the ground and foundation of all that good they do. T I se. Yea, but a ten regenerate men they do many ¢viii things, quite contrary to the Law, and do leave undone fundry good things injoined in the Law, and in thole things which they do bell, they come Port to the perfetlion of the Law: how do they then content to the Law? Si L. Yes, all this may be, and fand very well together, if men confider his conclufior., let down in the next verle; which is, that Paul as he was renewed, fo far his minded his will his affe &ions, did all allow the whole law; and the evils which he did, he was violently drawn unto them by originali fin, which 1ìi11 remained in him. T i m. Shen:, w then when it may be Paid of a man, that he contents to the Law. S z L. When he is fo affe&ed to the Law, as David and Patel were, not for degree, but for fincerity of affe &ion; fee Pfalme i. a. and 119. 14, i5, s6, is,
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