there is no man but would conclude, certainly he is a party, he is not an enemy to the army that doth besiege, every loyal and faithful subject shakes at the apprehension of the power and rage of the adversary, who is now likely to make havoc of all and that without mercy, so it is here, the violence of temptation from without, and the strength of corruptions from within, fight against the soul, thou that are a disobedient child, a rebellious self-willy servant, a perverse and […] wife, an ignorant, […] hearer, the alarm is given in public, concerning these armies of lusts that are come out against thee, notice given in private, thy fellow servants counsel, the master he commands, nay confessions are made of thy evils […] thou resists, petitions put up for Grace before thou […] abroad, and yet no sooner off thy knees out of the presence of the Lord, but thou art as though thou hadst never known any such thing, thou stumblest at the same stone, taken aside with the same temptations and distempers, as though thou hadst never heard thy sin discovered, as though thou hadst never been counselled, ⟨p. 695⟩never been commanded, as though thou hadst never bewailed it to this day, Idle and stubborn and perverse and way-ward and self-willy, so far from fearing these evils, that thou didst not remember them, or think of them or if thou didst, thou fearest rather thou shouldest be forced to reform them, rather than thou shouldst commit them, As sure as the Lord lives thou art a party and in league with these distempers, thou art not an enemy; if […] thou hadst found the venom and poison of these […] and hadst been persuaded of the destroying nature of these spiritual […], which make hayock of thy soul, the very appearance and apprehension of these would have been dreadful if there were but a roving thought in a mans mind, any small stirring of a distemper in a mans heart, any temptation, any the […] enticement to the committing of the evil, how would thy heart shake at the sight of it, fear & fly & cry for help against it, if thou hadst known it and hated it as thy deadly enemy, so Paul cries out as fearful men do, when he perceived the stirrings of those noisome distempers of his heart, the law of the flesh, how to avoid or prevent or overbear he could not tell, he cries out Oh 'Miserable man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death? Rom. 7. last.
there is no man but would conclude, certainly he is a party, he is not an enemy to the army that doth besiedg, every loyal and faithful subject shakes at the apprehension of the power and rage of the adversary, who is now likely to make havock of al and that without mercy, so it is here, the violence of temptation from without, and the strength of corruptions from within, fight against the soul, thou that are a disobedient child, a rebellious self-willy servant, a perverse and 〈…〉 wife, an ignorant, 〈…〉 hearer, the allarum is given in publick, concerning these armyes of lusts that are come out against thee, notice given in private, thy fellow servants counsel, the master he commands, nay confessions are made of thy evils 〈…〉 thou resists, petitions put up for Grace before thou 〈…〉 abroad, and yet no sooner off thy knees out of the presence of the Lord, but thou art as though thou hadst never known any such thing, thou stumblest at the same stone, taken aside with the same temptations and distempers, as though thou hadst never heard thy sin discovered, as though thou hadst never been counselled, ⟨p. 695⟩never been commanded, as though thou hadst never bewayled it to this day, Idle and stubborn and perverse and way-ward and self-willie, so farr from fearing these evils, that thou didst not remember them, or think of them or if thou didst, thou fearest rather thou shouldest be forced to reform them, rather than thou shouldst commit them, As sure as the Lord lives thou art a party and in league with these distempers, thou art not an enemy; if 〈…〉 thou hadst found the venom and poyson of these 〈…〉 and hadst been perswaded of the destroying nature of these spiritual 〈…〉, which make hayock of thy soul, the very appearance and apprehension of these would have been dreadful if there were but a roving thought in a mans mind, any smal stirring of a distemper in a mans heart, any temptation, any the 〈…〉 enticement to the committing of the evil, how would thy heart shake at the sight of it, fear & fly & cry for help against it, if thou hadst known it and hated it as thy deadly enemy, so Paul cries out as fearful men do, when he perceived the stirrings of those noysom distempers of his heart, the law of the flesh, how to avoyd or prevent or overbear he could not tel, he cryes out Oh 'Miserable man that I am who shal deliver me from this body of death? Rom. 7. last.
