t He goes onto clear the Law and excuſe it, giving it another Commendation, that it is Spiritual. 7. e. It requires ſuch Obedi ence as is not only outward, but Inward and Spiritual: It forbids Spiritual as well as Fleſbly Sins. Read Chriſt's Expoſition of it, i the fifth of St. Matthew, u 3, e. In Part, becauſe of the Remainder of Siz, and of the Fleſh, that are ſtill in me ; in reſpeC& of which, thoſe who are Regenerated are faid to be Carnal, Compr: 1 Cor, 1.2, with 1 Cor. 3. 1. w He did not AQtively fell himllt to /in, or to commit fs, which is __ Ahab. 1 King. 21. 25. and of the Idolatrous 1/-aelites 2 Wing. gg 7. 17. He was 18! Sins Servant or Slave ; but many-times he was Sins captive agzun his Will, vid. wer. 23. Againſt his Wil and Conſent, he wis fl ſubje& to the violent Luſts and Aſſaults of Sin; and nocable wholy to free himſelf: Though he always made ſtout Reſiſtance, 5 many times he was overcome. Hirherto the Apoſcle hath (pox: of the Power of the Law and Sin, in unregenerate Perlans ; evenss he himſelf had Experienced, whilſt he was yet in ſuch a 5 But now he cometh to ſpeak of himſelf, as he then was; endro declare what Power the Remainders of Sinful Fleſh had till in hin though Regenerated; and in part Renewed. That the follovils part of this Chapter is to be Apply'd to a Regenerate Fer is evident, Becauſe the Apoſtle (tpeaking of himſc/t in ts former Verſes) uſeth the Prerer Perfett Tenſe, or ſpeaketh of tht which was Paſt; but here he changeth the Tenſe and ſpeaketi: the Preſent Time. From the ſeventh werſe to the fourteen's, he tl us how it had been with him formerly ; and then from th. owe reenth verſe to the end, he relates how it was with him now ; I " ſo and ſo, 7amthus and thus. The changing of the Ten? and » doth plainly argue a Change in the Perſon. They chat Jiſt ro . farther ſatisfied in this Poinr, may find it fully Diſcuſſed in out own Language, by Mr. Anthony Burgeſs, in his Excelient DIR of Original Sin, Part. 4. c. 3, and by Dr. Wille, in his Hexap'®, |. Locum ; and they that underſtand the Latine Tongue, may i R Argued pro and con, in Synopſ. Critic, &c. and by 4% Rerrattat, co. 23.1ib. 5. contra Julian, c. 11. fa
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