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he Gentile church which is now at hand, when the Lord, weary with the obstinate and incurable rebellioii of the Gentiles, thaU visit them as he heretofore visited the Jews; and bring in the Jews, as be hcr^tofocc brought in the Gentiles of his tree grace, and gi^e to them and the Election of the Gentiles, acconling to grace, the kingdom and glorv ever* lasUDg, of which he hath spoken by the mouth of all his Prophets ftince the world began. Into which appropriation by the sense of all things to itflcif, if we were to iric|uirc a little, wo shall bnti it to be at the very core, and to be the very bane of our fallen nature ; thai it is a law sttxmg and stedfast, which carries with it the natural mind, andtumeth all its faculties from the Spiritual Creator aud thu invifiibtc world to the creatures and the visible world ; which nounsheth the faculties aud taiftes and appetites, and ether affcctioniL of the body, and in a maiuier deifies 4 It 1326 IRLLAKDS ^VIL cokaitiov. [Du. them, making their works, vtetbcr mcch** nical or ingenious, to be admired and held in revcrccic*^, aud wliolly t^xaUiiLg tke visible wurld, and the propurtaes tliirrvofr aft ibe 6t and proper aubjcct of man'ft study, of caaas ddight ami aj^ propriation, and that of all which the i«sac i^ aio and drjith: wherefore thJAcril biia of fallen mao is called the law of ^Jii and death in hi& mcmbtsis; and the mind with which it serves ilself ta called the carnal or fleshly mind; and this Irtitts of it arc called the frnita of the 6esh, which are these: "Adu!tcry,fon3icatioiu\irkclciLnnead,laficiviousac», idolatry^ witchcraft, hatred, vanaacc, emulalioM, wmlh,filr(re,»4^i1ittoii>>eredues,envjingm^QMirdeTa. drunkenness, rcvL-llingi^, and such like," Contrary thereto is the law of the Bpirit, whbcb is not able ia the fallen ercatura to have free coanet by icason of the bondage of iu will, and that origina) propensity to crii. which us the coiiditioa of a creature, but is redeemed and delivered by power of the Son of God, the original Creator the spirit and of uU thinj^s, who hatli taantfc the method thereof in his Oo«pel, and kaown to us the utter incapacity of mttnro undertake the work, uid the iodtspen^iblc »t sity of Uiviiie |>ower, which is therefore tmlli grace, because it is freely offered to us wiih< money and without price, nnd wrought io us b] the abiding ministry of the Holy (shost, who ccedetti frunj the Father and :hc Sun. and bcttj witli him into our hearts the good-will and gra- cious uituifttry of all the Pltkoiik in the Godhi w