The new birthThe nevv birth

all that, that the unregenerate man could so readily repeat, is slipped quite out of his mind (as a thing carelessly thrust into a corner, which a man cannot find when he should use it), so that he follows the sin as much, as if he had never heard that Sermon: but the godly man, hath those reasons & proofs of Scripture which he was able to carry away, instantly in his mind repelling such thoughts and saying, have I not heard what a sin this is? have I not been taught how it displeaseth God? so by this his holy remembrance, the word of God is available to keep him from sinning, or at least after to raise him up to the renewing of his repentance. And so you see the holiness of a Christian mans memory.¹ Thirdly his affections are also sanctified, and set in good order by the virtues which the holy Ghost infuseth into him. The principal affections are, love and hatred, fear and confidence, joy and sorrow: All these are enabled by the spirit of God, with a new power of exercising themselves upon God, and the things of God; and there are certain virtues which do rectify each of them in their several workings. First for love, the motions and inclinations thereof are ruled by (that King of virtues) charity, both towards God and towards the children of God. A good mans heart is inclining it self still to Godward, he finds in his soul that he hath something within him bowing and bending his heart to God, and making him even earn and melt after him sometimes, and cleave and stick unto him, in an unexpressible manner: yea the sweetness of that love wherewith he finds himself loved of God, is still pulling him unto God, even then when (perhaps) he finds ⟨p. 81⟩the Lord somewhat displeased with him, and carrying himself towards him somewhat angerly; as a wife comes towards her husband, with a kind of melting affection, submissively but still lovingly, when she perceiveth that he is offended with her. In truth the working of this affection rectified (as I said above) by charity, cannot be well enough set out in words; he findeth such a kind of clinging to God, and such an uniting of his heart towards him, that he had rather be deprived of all that is deer to him in the world, then of him:

all that, that the vnregenerate man could so readily repeate, is slipt quite out of his minde (as a thing carelesly thrust into a corner, which a man cannot find when he should vse it), so that he follows the sin as much, as if he had neuer heard that Sermon: but ye godly man, hath those reasons & proofes of Scripture which he was able to carry away, instantly in his minde repelling such thoughts and saying, haue I not heard what a sinne this is? haue I not beene taught how it displeaseth God? so by this his holy remembrance, the word of God is auaileable to keepe him from sinning, or at least after to raise him vp to the renewing of his repentance. And so you see the holinesse of a Christian mans memory.