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5. In this new nature there is no Guile at all. The new Creature is altogether void of Sinful Hypocrisy, it hath nothing in it but what is pure, and sincere, and without Guile. We read, 1 Joh. 3. 9• Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin. i. e. According to his new nature, or the new principle that is infused into him: and it must need appear to be sincere, and not Hypocritical, from the Consideration of the Original of it, and that is from God; it is therefore said to be Born of him, 1 Joh. 5. 4. And Born from above, Joh. 3. 3. And of the Spirit, Vers. 6. And is called the Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. It never consents to, much less contrives any deceit or cheat, but is always upright in the exertings of it self. And therefore every Converted man, so far as he is renewed, so far is he altogether without Guile. As Guile is a quality adhering to every Lust, so integrity is no less to every Grace of the Spirit, that is in the Children of God: their Faith is Unfeigned, 1 Tim. 1. 5. And their Love is without Dissimulation, Rom. 12. 9. And such are all the Graces which flow from these two, which are the root Graces in a Child of God.

6. The New Nature sets it self against the Guile of the Law in the members, in a Child of God. It ⟨p. 105⟩doth not only exert none it self, nor consent to that which the Corrupt part is acting, but it dissents from, and withstands it. There is the Lusting of the Spirit mentioned,