The Infusion of Grace doth mortify Corruption.

CHAP. VI. The Infusion of Grace doth mortify Corruption.

BY putting Grace into the heart God d••• destroy the power of Sin. Natural M•• are not able to mortify their own corruption• Whatever improvement they make of the•• natural abilities and outward opportunities they will fall short of mortifying their co• ruptions: They may do several things in ord•• to the mortifying their Sins, but they canno• effect it: They may restrain themselves much from the acts of Sin, but the lopping of th• tree don't kill the root: If they don't mak• provision for the flesh, yet they can't starve it▪ If they bewail their Sins, and cry out again•• them, and call themselves madmen, that wi•• not do. Pharaoh bewailed his Sin, Exod. 9.2• And Judas his, Mat. 27.3. Yet both of them were far from mortification. Yea, if they study the danger and evil of their Sins, that will not serve the turn. Such men may consider, that if their Sins don't die, their Soul• must die, according to that, Rom. 8.13. If y• live after the flesh ye shall die, but if ye through' th• Spirit do mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live. They may think that Sin is dishonourable