An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Secondly, The Saints are wearied with the weight of their sinful hearts. Inward corruption burdens more then outward temptation: and were it not for corruption within, temptation without could not be very burdensome: The devil tempted Christ, but because he found nothing at all in him, complying with, or suitable to his temptations; therefore Christ threw them off with ease. That enemy without could do us no hurt (he might put us to some trouble) if he found no correspondence within. The traitor in our own bowels, opens our ports, and lets in the adversary. His sparks could never inflame us, if he found no tinder in us. The baseness and unbelief, the lusts and vanities of our minds are apt to take fire at every injection. A gracious soul cannot live here without sin, and yet can easier die then sin. Paul (Rom. 7.24.) cries out, O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death, or from this body of ⟨p. 422⟩death! That is, from my body which is subject to death by reason of these remains of carnal corruption, or from my carnal corruptions, which are the remains of my spiritual death, and are worse to me then any death. All the afflictions of his […], and the pains of his body, were but a play, and a kind of so […] compared with the trouble which this body of death put him to. He rejoiced in tribulation, but he could not but mourn under corruption. Many poor souls are so vexed with these mystical Canaanites, that their spiritual Canaan (the state of grace) is to them like Egypt, the land of their captivity. And when they are commanded to rejoice, they answer, if we could not sin, we could rejoice, How shall we sing the Lords song in a strange land? O that we might go home.

Secondly, The Saints are wearied with the weight of their sinfull hearts. Inward corruption burdens more then outward temptation: and were it not for corruption within, temptation without could not be very burdensome: The devil tempted Christ, but because he found nothing at all in him, complying with, or sutable to his temptations; therefore Christ threw them off with ease. That enemy without could doe us no hurt (he might put us to some trouble) if he found no correspondence within. The traitour in our own bowels, opens our ports, and lets in the adversary. His sparks could never enflame us, if he found no tindar in us. The basenesse and unbelief, the lusts and vanities of our mindes are apt to take fire at every injection. A gracious soul cannot live here without sinne, and yet can easier die then sinne. Paul (