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¹And here is a ground of consolation to a drooping and dejected soul; such an one cries out, alas I feel the stirring and vigorous actings of sin, and I am afraid my sin is not mortified; as Rebekah said, when she felt the Children struggling within her; if it b• so, why am I thus? so, if sin be mortified, saith the soul, why am I thus?—trembling soul let not this discourage; Jesus Christ was not dead so soon as he was fastened to the Cross: But hast thou taken the same course with the body of sin, that the Jews did with the body of sin? hast thou arraigned it, accused it, condemned it, and fastened it to the Cross? hast thou arraigned it at the Bar of God's judgment, accused it by way of humble and hearty confession, condemned it in passing the sentence of eternal condemnation upon thy self for it, and fastened it to the Cross, in beginning the execution of it, in setting upon the mortification of it with a serious and unfeigned resolution to use all means for its mortifying and killing? why then be not disheartened; it may be thou feelest it stirring, and struggling within thee, and so will a crucified man do, and yet in the eye of the Law, and in the account of all men that see him, he is a dead man; surely so is the body of sin, when it is thus crucified; though it still move and stir, yet upon a Gospel-account, and in God's estimation, it is no better than dead, and it shall certainly die, it shall decay and languish, and die more and more; is not the promise express? He that hath begun the good work, ²he will perfect it to the day of Jesus Christ. Of this Paul was confident in behalf of his Philippians; and of this let all true Believers rest confident in respect of themselves. Thus far we see wherein we must conform to Christ, viz. in his Graces, in his Sufferings, and in his Death.

¹And here is a ground of consolation to a drooping and dejected soul; such an one cries out, alas I feel the stirring and vigorous actings of sin, and I am afraid my sin is not mortified; as Rebekah said, when she felt the Children strugling within her; if it b• so, why am I thus? so, if sin be mortified, saith the soul, why am I thus?—trembling soul let not this discourage; Jesus Christ was not dead so soon as he was fastned to the Cross: But hast thou taken the same course with the body of sin, that the Jews did with the body of sin? hast thou arraigned it, accused it, condemned it, and fastened it to the Cross? hast thou arraigned it at the Bar of God's judgment, accused it by way of humble and hearty confession, condemned it in passing the sentence of eternal condemnation upon thy self for it, and fastned it to the Cross, in beginning the execution of it, in setting upon the mortification of it with a serious and unfeigned resolution to use all means for its mortifying and killing? why then be not disheartned; it may be thou feelest it stirring, and strugling within thee, and so will a crucified man do, and yet in the eye of the Law, and in the account of all men that see him, he is a dead man; surely so is the body of sin, when it is thus crucified; though it still move and stir, yet upon a Gospel-account, and in God's estimation, it is no better than dead, and it shall certainly die, it shall decay and languish, and die more and more; is not the promise express? He that hath begun the good work,