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When ⟨p. 90⟩the will ceases to sin, as Ephraim said to his Idols, Get you hence, what have I any more to do with you, then the work of God is begun in power upon the Soul.

A universal willingness to be rid of all sin, speaks the heart to be sound and sincere with God; the enmity that Grace works in the heart against sin, is against the whole kind, tis against all sin, as well profitable and pleasurable sins, as disparaging and disgracing sins; and as well against small sins as against great sins; true Grace strikes at root and branch, at head and members, at father and son. A true Israelite would not have one Canaanite left in the Holy Land, he would have every Egyptian drowned in the Red Sea of Christs blood, Psal. 119.104. I hate every false way, Psal. 139. ult. Search me O Lord, and see if there be any wicked [way] in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Saving Grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts, as a Slave is willing to leave his Galley, or a Prisoner his Dungeon, or a Thief his Bolts, or a Beggar his rags. But now take a man that is in his natural condition, and he is as unwilling to part with his sins, as Abraham was to turn Hagar and Ishmael out of doors. Ambrose reports of one Theotimus, that having a disease upon his body, the Physician told him, That except he did abstain from intemperance, drunkenness, uncleanness, &c. he was like to lose his eyes; his heart was so desperately set upon his lusts, that he answered, Vale lumen amicum, Farewell sweet Light then, he had rather lose his eyes, than leave his sins. So they in Micah 6.6, 7. do make very large offers for a dispensation to live in their sins, They offer Calves of a year old, they offer thousands of Rams, and ten thousand Rivers of Oil; yea, they offer their first born for thei• transgressions, the fruit of their bodies for the sin of their souls. Sinners hearts are so glued to their lusts, that they will rather part with their nearest, dearest, and choicest enjoyments, than part with their sins; yea, when they are put hard to it, they will rather part with God, Christ, and all the glory of another world, than they will part with some base bosom lust; witness that young man in the Gospel, who went away sorrowful, because he had great possessions,