The truly blessed man

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 its present activity, so as to endeavour to Arm it 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.

2. In the Repentance which it brings the man to afterwards. Sometimes the Law of the Members is too subtle and strong, and leads the man Captive, and he is drawn into Dissimulation, as Peter and Barnabas were, Gal. 2.12. &c. The deceitfulness of his worser part imposeth upon him, and he plays the Fool; but as his Grace had no hand in it, but was merely overborne; so it recruits again, and what it could not prevent by withstanding, it clears it self of, by Repentance. The Godly sorrow, bitter mourning, self-abhorrence and mortification he applies to it, witnesseth for him, 2 Cor. 7.11. And this belongs to that Spiritual warfare, with which the Gospel acquaints us.

2. In the Repentance which it brings the man to afterwards. Sometimes the Law of the Members is too subtile and strong, and leads the man Captive, and he is drawn into Dissimulation, as Peter and Barnabas were, Gal. 2.12. &c. The deceitfulness of his worser part imposeth upon him, and he plays the Fool; but as his Grace had no hand in it, but was meerly overborn; so it recruits again, and what it could not prevent by withstanding, it clears it self of, by Repentance. The Godly sorrow, bitter mourning, self-abhorrence and mortification he applies to it, witnesseth for him,