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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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The fourth point is touching the persons in whom this combat is. Paul shows who they ⟨p. 89⟩are, when he saith, So that ye can not, &c. where it appears that such as have this combat in them must be as the Galatians, men justified & sanctified: And yet not all such, but only they that be of years: for the infants of the faithful, how soever we must repute them to belong to the kingdom of heaven, & therefore to be justified & sanctified: yet because they do not commit actual sin, they want this combat of the flesh and spirit, which stands in action. As for those which be unregenerate, they never felt this fight. If any say that the worst man in the world, when he is about to commit any sin, hath a strife & fight in him. It is true indeed: but that is another kind of combat, which is between the conscience and the heart. The conscience on the one part terrifying the man from sin: the will and the affections haling & pulling him thereunto: the will & the affections wishing & desiring that sin were no sin, & Gods commandment abolished: whereas contrariwise the conscience with a shrill voice proclaims sin to be sin. This fight was in Pilate, who by the force of his conscience feared to condemn Christ: & yet was willing, and yielded to condemn him that he might please the people.
The fourth point is touching the persons in whom this combat is. Paul shewes who they ⟨p. 89⟩are, whē he saith, So that ye can not, &c. where it appeares that such as haue this cōbat in them must be as the Galatians, men iustified & sanctified: And yet not all such, but only they that be of yeres: for the infants of the faithfull, how soeuer we must repute them to belong to the kingdom of heauen, & therfore to be iustified & sanctified: yet because they do not commit actuall sin, they want this cōbat of the flesh and spirit, which stāds in actiō. As for those which be unregenerate, they neuer felt this fight. If any say that the worst man in the world, when he is about to cōmit any sinne, hath a strife & fight in him. It is true indeed: but that is another kind of cōbat, which is between the conscienceand the heart. The cōscience on the one part terrifying the man frō sinne: the will and the affections haling & pulling him therunto: the will & the affections wishing & desiring that sin were no sin, & Gods commandement abolished: wheras contrariwise the conscience with a shril voice proclaimes sin to be sin. This fight was in Pilat, who by the force of his conscience feared to condemne Christ: & yet was willing, and yeelded to condemne him that he might please the people.