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Two treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat…Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat…
Two treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and spirit.Tvvo treatises· I. Of the nature and practise of repentance. II. Of the combat of the flesh and spirit.
Cambridge: printed by John Legate printer to the University of Cambridge. 1593., 1593Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge. 1593., 1593
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To proceed, the combat in the will is this. The will partly willeth and partly nilleth that which is good at the same instant: & so likewise it willeth & nilleth that which is evil: because it is partly regenerate & partly unregenerate. The affections likewise, which are placed in the will, partly embrace & partly eschew their objects: as love partly loveth and partly doth not love God and things to be loved: fear is mixed & not pure (as schoolmen have dreamed) but partly filial partly servile, causing the child of God to stand in awe of god not only for his mercies, but also for his judgements & punishments. The will of a man regenerate is like him that hath one leg sound, the other lame: who in every step which he makes, doth not wholly halt or wholly go upright, but partly go upright & partly halt. Or like a man in a boat on the water: who goeth upward because he is carried upward by the vessel: & at the same time goes downward, because he walks downward in the same vessel at the same instant. If any shall say that contraries can not be in the same subject. The answer is, that ⟨p. 83⟩they can not, if one of them be in his full strength in the highest degree: but if the force of them1 both be delayed & weakened, they may be joined together.
To proceed, the combat in the will is this. The will partly willeth and partly nilleth that which is good at the same instant: & so likewise it willeth & nilleth that which is evill: because it is partly regenerate & partly unregenerate. The affections likewise, which are placed in the wil, partly imbrace & partly eschew their obiects: as loue partly loueth and partly doth not loue God and things to be loued: feare is mixed & not pure (as schoolemē haue dremed) but partly fili•l partly servil, causing the child of God to stād in awe of god not only for his mercies, but also for his iudgements & punishments. The will of a man regenerate is like him that hath one leg sound, the other lame: who in every step which he makes, doth not wholly halt or wholly go upright, but partly go upright & partly halt. Or like a man in a boate on the water: who goeth upward because he is caried upward by the vessell: & at the same time goes downward, because hee walkes downward in the same vessell at the same instant. If any shall say that contraries cā not be in the same subiect. The answer is, that