The souls implantation into the natural olive. By T.HThe soules implantation into the naturall olive. By T.H

The first of the three passages wherein this general preparation consists, is this;¹ The soul of a sinner breaks that league which sometime it had with former lusts and corruptions: there is a separation made between the soul and those darling sins which it before so much delighted in; and the heart begins to rebel against those base tyrants which before usurped authority over it, whether they be corruptions, or profits, or pleasures, that before bore a great sway in the soul, the league is broken, there is a secret kind of mutiny which the soul setteth up against those distempers: in so much that the separation being made, and ⟨p. 36⟩the soul having cast off the yoke of her corruptions, the heart reserves it self for the Lord Christ Jesus. And observe it, always there is a separation of the soul from sin, before there be a reservation made for Christ. It is with the soul, as it is with a wife that is an adulteress, and hath gotten her self a base name, and an evil report by her lewd and wicked courses; after the Lord hath opened her eyes, and discovered to her the baseness of her practice, then she cometh to detest all her former courses, and abandoneth all her former wicked companions; and though she be laid at continually by them, and importuned upon every occasion, yet she never hearkeneth unto them, but looketh only unto her husband: and if he will but receive her, and entertain her again, then she will keep close unto him, and show more love unto him than ever she did before: so the soul of a poor sinner was created for God, and it ought to have been married to God: the end of our creation and redemption was, that we might have communion with God; but all of us have played the adulteresses, we have had our wicked lovers. The heart that will have the world, the profits, and pleasures, and vanities thereof, will be married to lusts and corruptions; every man doth bestow his soul upon these wicked practices.

The first of the three passages wherein this generall preparation consists, is this;¹ The soule of a sinner breakes that league which sometime it had with former lusts and corruptions: there is a separation made betweene the soule and those darling sinnes which it before so much delighted in; and the heart begins to rebell against those base tyrants which before usurped authority over it, whether they be corruptions, or profits, or pleasures, that before bore a great sway in the soule, the league is broken, there is a secret kind of mutinie which the soule setteth up against those distempers: in so much that the separation being made, and