A Saint Indeed

Man by degeneration is become a most disordered and rebellious Creature, ⟨p. 8⟩contesting with, and opposing his Maker, as the first cause, by self dependence; as the chiefest good, by self-love; as the highest Lord, by self will; and as the last end, by self-seeking; and so is quite disordered, and all his acts irregular: His illuminated understanding is clouded with ignorance, his complying will, full of rebellion and stubbornness; his subordinate powers, casting off the dominion and government of the superior faculties.

Man by degeneration is become a most disordered and rebellious Creature, ⟨p. 8⟩contesting with, and opposing his Maker, as the first cause, by self dependance; as the chiefest good, by self-love; as the highest Lord, by self will; and as the last end, by self-seeking; and so is quite disordered, and all his acts irregular: His illuminated understanding is clouded with ignorance, his complying will, full of rebellion and stubbornnesse; his subordinate powers, casting off the dominion and government of the superiour faculties.

But by Regeneration, this disordered Soul is set right again; Sanctification being the rectifying, and due framing, or as the Scripture phrases it, the renovation of the Soul after the Image of God, Eph. 4. 24. in which, self dependence is removed by Faith; self-love, by the love of God; self will, by subjection and obedience to the Will of God; and self-seeking, by self-denial. The darkened understanding is again illuminated, Eph. 1. 18. the refractory will sweetly subdued, Psal. 110. 3. the rebellious appetite, or concupiscence, gradually conquered,