Elijah's abatementEliah's abatement

It is true, They that are Christs, ¹have crucified the flesh with its affections, and lusts; yet, so notwithstanding, as that sin presently giveth not up the Ghost: Corruption and nature in the Saints breathe out their last together, and are not buried, but in one and the same grave.

1. 1Gal. 5.24.

2. Reason. God will have it so, to keep the Saints in continual exercise. The infirmities of the Saints find them work: weeping work, groaning work, sighing work: hence is their life called a warfare in Scripture.

3. Ground or Reason. More particularly, grace sometimes meets with an ill nature: I mean, the Second nature, Constitution. All the sons and daughters of Adam are equally depraved and corrupted by their first common nature, drawn from his loins: but that vitiosity is differently determined and acted by their second ⟨p. 14⟩nature, which is nothing else but their complexion and temper derived from their next immediate parents: whereby one is inclined to this sin, and another to that sin; one to Covetousness, another to passion; a third to uncleanness, &c. more to one then to another, according to the predominancy of the humour in their individual constitutions.

3. Ground or Reason. More particularly, grace sometimes meets with an ill nature: I mean, the Second nature, Constitution. All the sons and daughters of Adam are equally depraved and corrupted by their first common nature, drawne from his loynes: but that vitiosity is differently determined and acted by their second