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

2. As to the extent of Duration of the War, which being in the Regenerate irreconcilable must needs be interminable; like the War between the Romans and Carthaginians that was entailed to Posterity: or as fire and water will fight for ever if together for ever. In the natural man (contrariwise) the quarrel is soon took up, as between the Romans and other Nations; there being not that Antipathy between Reason and Corruption, as there is between Grace and Corruption.

2. As to the extent of Duration of the Warr, which being in the Regenerate irreconcileable must needs be interminable; like the Warr between the Romans and Carthaginians that was intayl'd to Posterity: or as fire and water will fight for ever if together for ever. In the natural man (contrariwise) the quarrel is soon took up, as between the Romans and other Nations; there being not that Antipathy between Reason and Corruption, as there is between Grace and Corruption.

VII. They differ in the concomitants and consequents of the fight. And 1. The fight in natural men may stand with the constant practice of and living in sin against the light of Conscience. Godly men sin more with knowledge, but wicked men more against knowledge. He that is born of God doth not commit sin, that is, make a trade of living and lying in known sin, 1 John 3.9.

2. The fight in the Unregenerate hinders not the perfection and consummation of sin in the antecedent deliberation and purpose, in the present delight and complacency, and the following pertinacy and impenitency. Instance in Saul, Herod, Judas, and others. But the Spirit by its conflict breaks the power of sin in all these in the Regenerate, that they can neither do good as they would, nor sin as they otherwise would,