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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?
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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, Gal. 5.17.
3. The fight in natural men seeks only the repression, not the suppression of sin, to lop the superfluous branches, not stub up the root; to charm the Serpent, not to break its head. But the spiritual fight seeks the full mortification and abolition of sin, Rom. 6.6. (hatred seeks the destruction of its Enemy, 1 Sam. 24.19. and 1 John 3.15.) and the complete perfection of Grace, though not attainable in this life. Phil. 3. vers. 10. — 14. This for the first branch of Wisdom, which teaches to discern between the natural and the spiritual Conflict.
3. The fight in natural men seeks only the repression, not the suppression of sin, to lop the superfluous branches, not stub up the root; to charm the Serpent, not to break its head. But the spiritual fight seeks the full mortification and abolition of sin, Rom. 6.6. (hatred seeks the destruction of its Enemie, 1 Sam. 24.19. and 1 John 3.15