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…

Secondly, the man regenerate can not sin in what manner he would: And there be two reasons thereof. First, he can not sin with full consent, of will or with all his heart: because the will so far forth as it is regenerate, resisteth and draweth back: yea, even then when a man is carried headlong by the passions of the flesh, he feels some contrary motions of a regenerate conscience. It is a true rule that sin doth not reign in the regenerate. For so much grace as is wrought in the mind, will, affections: so much is abated proportionally of the strength of the flesh, wherefore when he con mitts ⟨p. 92⟩any sin, he doth it partly willingly, & partly against his will. As the mariners in the tempest, cast Jonah into the sea willingly: for otherwise they had not done it: & yet against their wills too: which appears because they prayed, and cast their goods out of the ship, & laboured in rowing against the tempest, & that very long before they cast him out. And herein lies the difference between two men committing one & the same sin, the one of them being regenerate, the other unregenerate. For the latter sins with all his heart & with full consent, & so doth not the first. Secondly, though he fall into any sin, yet he doth not lie long in it, but speedily recovers himself, by reason of grace in his hart.

Secondly, the man regenerate can not sin in what manner he would: And there be two reasons therof. First, he can not sinne with full consent, of will or with all his heart: because the will so far forth as it is regenerate, resisteth and draweth back: yea, even then when a man is caried headlong by the passions of the flesh, he feeles some contrary motions of a regenerate cōscience. It is a true rule that sin doth not reigne in the regenerate. For so much grace as is wrought in the mind, will, affectiōs: so much is abated proportionally of the strength of the flesh, wherfore whē he cō mits ⟨p. 92⟩any sin, he doth it partly willingly, & partly against his wil. As the mariners in the tēpest, cast Ionas into the sea willingly: for otherwise they had not done it: & yet against their willes too: which appeares because they prayed, and cast their goods out of the ship, & laboured in rowing against the tempest, & that very long before they cast him out. And herein lies the difference betweene tvvo men cōmitting one & the same sinne, the one of them being regenerate, the other unregenerate. For the latter sins with all his heart & with full consent, & so doth not the first. Secōdly, though he fall into any sin, yet he doth not lie lōg in it, but speedily recouers himself, by reason of grace in his hart.