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

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, Luke 13.24. and takes the Kingdom of Heaven by an holy violence, Matth. 11.12. in spite of spiritual Enemies that way-lay him within and without.

Contrariwise, in the Unregenerate there is usually nothing but a forein 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) unlesse it be to stop the mouth of conscience inlightned &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, Luke 13.24. and takes the Kingdom of Heaven by an holy violence, Matth. 11.12