feen in Mary at the Lord's feet, and the fecond in Paul to the Corinthians. At other times the pa tience of hope is very confpicuous in waiting for that which is hoped for.-I will wait upon the Lord, that bideth his face from Jacob, and I will look for bim. Ifa. viii. 17.

This new man of grace comes from the fulness of Chrift, in whom all fulness dwells, and out of whose fulness we all receive, and grace for grace. And it is the Spirit that works it in us by his wonderful ̈ operation, and he fupplies this new man daily; hence we read of a supply of the Spirit of Jefus Christ, Phil. i. 19; that is, the Spirit of Chrift supplies us with more grace from Chrift, the bleffed head of influence.

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Now (fays the apostle) if ye be led by the Spirit, ye are not under the law. They that are under the law have nothing else but luft and corruption working in them, let them talk of spurious holiness as much as they please. "Law was given (fays Milton) to evince man's natural pravity, by stirring up fin against law to fight." The motions of fins, which were by the law [ftirred up], did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. Rom. vii. 5. So that he who is under the law is deftitute of that new man, and of courfe has nothing but fin in him.

He may at times feel rebukes, checks, and lashes within; which he may, and many do, call the old man of fin: but this is a mistake; it is not an

enemy, but a friend; not the old man of fin, but honeft confcience doing his duty, buffeting the finner for his hypocrify. So, on the other hand, a hypocrite may, at times, find a little calm of peace and tranquillity in his mind, which he may call the new man, and I believe thousands do fo: but, as the former is nothing but natural confcience accufing, so the latter is nothing but natural confcience excufing, according to the light of nature.

For, even under this calm of peace and tranquillity, there is no godly forrow flowing out to God; no condemning, hating, and abhorring felf; nor any real tears of pious grief, mourning over a fuffering Saviour; no repentance towards the Lord, nor heartfelt gratitude to him, nor real thanks and praises for his long-suffering, undeserved, and unexpected clemency.

- Such men's peace fprings from a ceffation of arms with Satan; they have had a few day's refpite, in which the devil has not wallowed them in the mire; and, during this interval, they have done fomething for God, and of course he must be pleased with them. All this takes its fpring from felf, and centers in felf, and there fuch faith ftands; for he has no truft but in his own heart; look to Jefus he cannot, because there is no good thing in him toward the Lord God of Ifrael: whereas the believer looks to Jefus, depends on his arm, and views his own heart worfe than Satan himself-being deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Jer. xvii. 9. The

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believer knows, that he can ftand no longer than while the Lord upholds him; if he withdraw his supporting hand he is fure to fink, and when funk he despairs of all help in his own arm, or in his own heart; he knows that nothing can recover him but a propitious look from his dear Lord, or a re ftoring visit from him, or a fresh discovery by faith of his dying love, attended with the reviving and renewing operations of the Holy Spirit of promise.

The flesh lufteth against the Spirit in behalf of, and to be gratified in, its own delightful fruits; which the apostle mentions: which are, adultery, fornication, uncleannefs, lafcivioufnefs, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, firife, sea ditions, berefies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, &c. Gal. v. 19-21. Some of these are fins which easily befet the child of God; they often intrude themselves into his mind; yea, even when he would do good fome of these are present with him: nor is the believer without his flips and falls in one way or other. But ftill he is not a fervant of fin; for they that are the fervants of fin are free from righteousness. Rom. vi. 20. Such are free to fin, and free from all righteoufnefs; which the believer never is. He is a fervant of righteoufnefs, and doth ferve both in faith and love. And, though he does not live without fin, being in one fenfe ftill in the flesh, yet fin is neither his element nor his fervice.-For, though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flef 2 Cor. x. 3, but war against it. Nor are

the fins of believers called service, for they have no wages for it, neither prefent pleasure nor endless death, which are all the wages that a fervant of fin gets. He may be brought into captivity to the law of fin, which is in his members. Rom. vii. 23. But a captive and a fervant in this matter widely differ.

The apostle, having called the whole mafs of inbred corruptions the fruits of the flesh and a body of fin, he alfo affigns different fins as fo many dif ferent members of this monftrous body, in allufion to the body of a man.-Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupifcence, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Col iii. 5.

So, on the other hand, he calls the principle of implanted grace the new man. is formed by the Holy Spirit,

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and confifts of different graces, fo the apoftle calls thefe the fruits of the Spirit, in oppofition to the other, which he calls the fruits of the flesh.-But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-fuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meeknefs, temperance: against fuch there is no law. Gal. v. 22, 23. Now all thefe, ftrictly speaking, are not graces of the Spirit; but fruits and effects of his operation for gentleness, long-fuffering, and temperance, may be exercifed, and often are exercifed, by men in a ftate of nature. Some, who are inured to fufferings, may and do fuffer with much patience; others are naturally temperate; and others as gentle, eafy, and unmoved, who have no fear of God

God before their eyes. But thofe that are the re verse of these are made fo by grace. When the wolf is taught to dwell with the lamb, and the lion to lie down with the kid, then these things are attended to, and men exercise themselves in them in the fear of God.

Nor are all the graces or fruits of the Spirit mentioned in that catalogue. Fear, patience, zeal, and hope, are fruits of the Spirit; and fo are contrition, godly forrow, humility, repentance, &c. Now, as the new man is composed of these manifold graces, fo the Holy Spirit, by his powerful operations, enlivens, ftrengthens, and draws forth into exercife, first one and then another, as feemeth good to him. Sometimes he ftrengthens faith, and fortifies the mind with fuch might and power, that the excellency and the power appear fo confpicuously to be of God, that the man is quite above himself. But truly 1 am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his tranfgreffion, and to Ifrael his fin. Micah iii. 8.

Again, when we are led to defend any truth that is opposed, and it pleases the Holy Spirit to instruct, fettle, and establish the children of God in them, he not only gives you light into the truth, and brings text after text to the mind to fupport and confirm it, but fires the foul with fuch zeal, that we are clad with it as with a cloak.-My zeal hath confumed me ; because mine enemies have forgotten thy words. Thy