Influences of the life of grace

As 1. Under indispositions moral we rejoice, that sinful indispositions do befriend us, and smile upon us to promote sin; as some love them well who counsel them, and join with them in drunkenness, and are their brethren in iniquity: so do we foment indispositions, and welcome and fatten them, and do not violence to our corruption, and deadness, and hardness; and some expone false light, to be God's secret and virtual approving Will they should commit the sin; as Eve saw the fruit that it was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise. Gen. 3. 6. Here Eve substitutes the tentation in place of the precept, and false light fosters and cherisheth a sinful lust and a wicked disposition to sin. It is a sort of tempting of the tempting disposition, whereas is were good to complain under a sinful disposition as under the bondage of a part of the body of sin, as Paul doth, Rom. 7. for a sinful disposition is but a branch and bud of the body of sin which we are to wrestle against, as a most dangerous opposite to spiritual obedience. Indeed sometime a spiritual disposition to pray or praise, or hope, goes along with the command. Now the obligation of the command to praise is ever one, and its good when the man can say, My heart is fixed, I will praise, Psal. 5•. and the command to wait on the Lord lies ever on; it is a rich mercy when the disposition goes along with the command; as Psal. 25. 15. Mine eyes are ever (in the habit and holy disposition) toward the Lord; and Psal. 130. 6. My soul waiteth for the Lord, more then they that watch for the morning. Farther not to pray till the Spirit move us, and ⟨p. 67⟩simply to abstain from praying or any other spiritual duty upon simple ignorance that we are not obliged to pray except the spirit move us, is weakness in some godly, who may be overtaken with that error, but in knowing and judicious men who are Libertines, ¹