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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again know that a natural man may have reluctancy in some part of the soul, as in the conscience, the conscience being sensible of sin, hence it may convince the man, and yet the rest of the faculties be at peace, but where this spiritual strength is, it is in all parts, not one faculty against another, but all are fighting against sin in the whole man. Now the reason that there is not this reluctancy in every faculty in a natural man is, because he wants saving grace to oppose the workings of sin. That is, grace is not in the faculty opposite unto the corruption that is in it, but in the holy man there is. And therefore he is like Rebekah, there are twins in him, Jacob and Esau, the flesh and the spirit, hence it is that Paul complaineth so in Rom. 7. I find another Law in my members 1rebelling against the Law of my mind: A Law, That is I find something in me that is contrary unto me, and in my members, That is in my body and soul: notwithstanding I see the evil of sin as most contrary to grace, yet I cannot avoid it, I cannot do the things that I would. But the natural man doth not hate the evil of sin, otherwise then as it brings punishment.
Again know that a natural man may have reluctancy in some part of the soul, as in the conscience, the conscience being sensible of sin, hence it may convince the man, and yet the rest of the faculties be at peace, but where this spiritual strength is, it is in all parts, not one facultie against another, but all are fighting against sin in the whole man. Now the reason that there is not this reluctancy in every facultie in a natural man is, because he wants saving grace to oppose the workings of sin. That is, grace is not in the facultie opposite unto the corruption that is in it, but in the holy man there is. And therefore he is like Rebekah, there are twins in him, Iacob and Esau, the flesh and the spirit, hence it is that Paul complaineth so in Rom. 7. I finde another Law in my members 1rebelling against the Law of my mind: A Law, That is I find something in me that is contrary unto me, and in my members, That is in my body and soul: notwithstanding I see the evil of sin as most contrary to grace, yet I cannot avoid it, I cannot do the things that I would. But the natural man doth not hate the evil of sin, otherwise then as it brings punishment.