The truly blessed man

2. He is acted by the same principle. Wicked men are stimulated and ruled by their lusts, which have the whole command over them; and when Godly men are drawn into sin, and lie in •t, and defend it, they are the same lusts in them, that do all this by their force: nor are such things less sins because done by them; for they arise ⟨p. 501⟩from the inward enmity against the Law, the rebellion of the flesh: Paul therefore chargeth it to sin, Rom. 7.20. And David fully and freely takes the blame of it to him, acknowledging of his transgression in it, Psal. 51.

2. He is acted by the same principle. Wicked men are stimulated and ruled by their lusts, which have the whole command over them; and when Godly men are drawn into sin, and ly in •t, and defend it, they are the same lusts in them, that do all this by their force: nor are such things less sins because done by them; for they arise ⟨p. 501⟩from the inward enmity against the Law, the rebellion of the flesh: Paul therefore chargeth it to sin, Rom. 7.20. And David fully and freely takes the blame of it to him, acknowledging of his transgression in it, Psal. 51.

3. And so he con•radict• the new nature that is in him Every sin in a believer is contrary to his Grace, and shows that he is two men: but when he not only falls into sin, but is stupid, and justifieth himself, and cannot bear a reproof; this is a contradiction to Grace, he sets himself directly against it, he hereby wounds his new nature; and were not God more merciful to him, he would destroy it with his own hands: by the temptation he fell into sin, but by hardening his heart he wallows in the sin, and makes his wound the more dangerous. David thus brought himself to such a pass, that he needed a New Creation, as it were to pass upon him,