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

V. They differ in the manner of the fight. The natural mans combat is more mercenary; admits of more Parley's, cessations, correspondencies, as 1. Sam. 15.9. Sauls fight with Amaleck. But the Spiritual man (as such) fights it out to the last, and will give no Quarter. The former is like the strife between Wind and Tide, which often come about and are both of one side; the latter is like the Dam and the Tide, that strive till one be born down: or like Stream and Tide meeting and conflicting till one hath overborne the other.

V. They differ in the manner of the fight. The natural mans combate is more mercenary; admits of more Parley's, cessations, correspondencies, as 1. Sam. 15.9. Sauls fight with Amaleck. But the Spiritual man (as such) fights it out to the last, and will give no Quarter. The former is like the strife between Wind and Tide, which often come about and are both of one side; the latter is like the Dam and the Tide, that strive till one be born down: or like Stream and Tide meeting and conflicting till one hath overborn the other.

VI. They differ in the extent of the conflict, in relation to its subject and duration. The extent of the Subject is double. 1. As to the faculties. 2. As to the Acts. As to the faculties; The seat of War in the Regenerate is every faculty, flesh and spirit being ever mixed (as light and darkness in every point of Air in the twilight) 1 Thes. 5.23. Grace and Corruption Leaven the whole-man: So that in the Regenerate there is at the same time both a Civil and a Foreign War, that in the same faculty, this in one faculty against another.

VI. They differ in the extent of the conflict, in relation to its subject and duration. The extent of the Subject is double. 1. As to the faculties. 2. As to the Acts. As to the faculties; The seat of Warr in the Regenerate is every faculty, flesh and spirit being ever mixed (as light and darknesse in every poynt of Ayr in the twilight)