The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

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, Gal. 5. 17. And there are two things wherein it discovers this.

1. In the Reluctancy of it against the Corrupt part in us, seeking to suppress and prevent it. So far as Grace is active in the heart of a Child of God, when it meets with a Temptation to Guile or Hypocrisy, it Resists it, bears its Testimony against it; influenceth the Conscience according to […] present activity, so as to endeavour to Arm […] against that part in him, which is eager and violent for it: and this Paul designs in, Rom. 7. When he speaks of the Good he would do, and the Evil he would not do. And doubtless, many a time, by the help of the Spirit of God, he gets the Victory, overcomes the Temptation, and rejects the Motion with abhorrence.

1. In the Reluctancy of it against the Corrupt part in us, seeking to suppress and prevent it. So far as Grace is active in the heart of a Child of God, when it meets with a Temptation to Guile or Hypocrisy, it Resists it, bears its Testimony against it; influenceth the Conscience according to 〈…〉 present activity, so as to endeavour to Arm 〈…〉 against that part in him, which is eager and violent for it: and this Paul designs in, Rom. 7. When he speaks of the Good he would do, and the Evil he would not do. And doubtless, many a time, by the help of the Spirit of God, he gets the Victory, overcomes the Temptation, and rejects the Motion with abhorrence.