An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

A second spiritual trouble is, The want of that sanctifying and mortifying power they desire against their lusts. They find the relics of corruption too prevalent; their hearts are not in their own power; They complain and say, I command my hands, and they move as I would have them; I stir my feet, and they obey presently; but when I charge my soul to be heavenly, believing, to be cheerful, patient, it doth not at all yield to me. Paul, Rom. 7. did in a most pathetical manner complain of this conflict and agony with him, The evil he would not do, that he did. As these impetuous lusts are a burden, so the deadness, barrenness and hardness of his heart: Oh often doth he cry out of his soul, as like the mountains of Gilboa, on whom no dew doth fall, like a parched and dried wilderness, and he knoweth not how to come out of it, yet even in these sad, perplexed thoughts God comes in with comfort, when his heart affords none, when all within riseth up against him; yet as it was with Paul, his complaints shall be turned into praises, I thank God in Jesus Christ.

A second spiritual trouble is, The want of that sanctifying and mortifying power they desire against their lusts. They find the reliques of corruption too prevalent; their hearts are not in their own power; They complain and say, I command my hands, and they move as I would have them; I stirre my feet, and they obey presently; but when I charge my soul to be heavenly, believing, to be chearfull, patient, it doth not at all yeeld to me. Paul, Rom. 7. did in a most pathetical manner complain of this conflict and agony with him, The evil he would not do, that he did. As these impetuous lusts are a burden, so the deadness, barrenness and hardness of his heart: Oh often doth he cry out of his soul, as like the mountains of Gilboa, on whom no dew doth fall, like a parched and dried wilderness, and he knoweth not how to come out of it, yet even in these sad, perplexed thoughts God comes in with comfort, when his heart affords none, when all within riseth up against him; yet as it was with Paul, his complaints shall be turned into praises, I thank God in Jesus Christ.