A25470:1374
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Sermon 13: What difference is there between the Conflict in Natural, AND Spiritual Persons?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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) 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 Forein Warr, that in the same faculty, this in one faculty against another.
Contrariwise, in the Unregenerate there is usually nothing but a foreign War between several faculties, there being nothing of spiritual good in their wills and affections, to set the same faculty against it self. ⟨p. 330⟩2. It extends also to every act of piety, and charity (especially if more spiritual) Rom. 7.21. For which the natural man hath no conflict, (but against them) unless it be to stop the mouth of conscience enlightened &c. Nor indeed doth he know experimentally what spiritual acts of Piety are. But the regenerate find it by constant experience, Faith and Unbelief, Humility and Pride ever opposing and counter-working each other: whence he is forced to cut his way through his Enemies, and to dispute it step by step. Others may seek, but he strives,