The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

But in spiritual persons, the matter of conflict is, 1. Little sins as well as great, 2. Secret sins as well as open. 3. The first risings as well as the gross acts. 4. Sins which promise worldly safety, credit, profit, contentment, as well as those sins that threaten the contrary. 5. In a word, all moral evil; hatred and Antipathy being of the whole kind, Psalm 119.128. especially of those evils which most endanger the New-man, Psalm 18.23. and such as are beloved sins, Matth: 18. vers. 8, 9.

But in spiritual persons, the matter of conflict is, 1. Little sins as well as great, 2. Secret sins as well as open. 3. The first risings as well as the grosse acts. 4. Sins which promise worldly safety, credit, profit, contentment, as well as those sins that threaten the contrary. 5. In a word, all moral evil; hatred and Antipathy being of the whole kind, Psalm 119.128. especially of those evils which most indanger the New-man, Psalm 18.23. and such as are beloved sins, Matth: 18. vers. 8, 9.

III. They differ in the subject of the conflict. In natural men the fight is in several faculties, reason fighting against sense and passion, or the dictate of conscience against the corrupt inclination of the will; whence the fight is more at a distance by missile Arms and velitation. But in the regenerate man the fight is more close in the same faculty, the wisdom of flesh and spirit counteracting in the same understanding, the lustings of the flesh and spirit in the same will: whence the fight is as it were inter Triarios Grace and Corruption immediately; which at first haply was managed by the Hastati and Scutati, Reason and Interest. The former is like the fight of the Soldiers of Fortune, more lazy and by way of Siege; the latter more keen and vigorous by way of Assault an Onslaught; like that of Scanderbeg, who fought with his Enemies breast to breast in a Box or Grate.