The Return of Prayers

Only I add these ⟨p. 360⟩Cautions concerning this case.

Onely I adde these ⟨p. 360⟩Cautions concerning this case.

Caution 1 1. There are two sorts of corruptions. First, more gross corruptions, which Saint Peter calls, [Greek or Hebrew], the defilements of the world, 2. Pet. 2. 20. they being the common mire, or kennel, wherein the unclean swine of this world wallow, and which the Apostle calls such works of the flesh as are manifest, Gal. 5. 19. even to the light of Nature; such as are adultery, fornication, drunkenness, &c. and by those two expressions do they distinguish them from a sort of more spiritual and refined lusts. For secondly, ⟨p. 361⟩there are corruptions more spiritual, as pride, secret love of the world. Now, for those gross corruptions, which are contrary, even to common honesty, and (to use Jobs phrase) are punished by the Judges, 31. Job 11. which profane men wallow in, a godly man hath more strength against them, so as it is not so ordinary for him to be entangled again and again with these; for where but moral principles are, these are abstained from, as we see in the Pharisee, I am no adulterer, &c. therefore, where grace is, much more. And some sins are more opposite to the spirit ⟨p. 362⟩of holiness, and less compatible with grace, as uncleanness, of which Saint Paul says, God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness,