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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33462	Capel's remains being an useful appendix to his excellent Treatise of tentations, concerning the translations of the Holy Scriptures : left written with his own hand / by that incomparably learned and jucicious divine, Mr. Richard Capel, sometimes fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford ; with a preface prefixed, wherein is contained an abridgement of the authors life, by his friend Valentine Marshall.	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Marshall, Valentine.; Capel, Richard, 1586-1656. Tentations.	1658 (1658)	Wing C471; ESTC R5922	60,793	168

let in sin but rather this is against sin So Paul I do that I would not I do not do what I would there is no question but there is some ignorance some not knowing of him when any sinne is sinned Master Anthony Burges speech I think is in the right All sins saith he are called because all sinners are ignorant of something they should know there being no sinne which doth not proceed from some errour in the practical judgement For although a man sin wilfully and advisedly so that there is no other cause of the malice but the malice it self as Austine speaks of some of his sins yet even then there is an errour in that mans conscience Thus he and to this I subscribe So that it is not faith nor knowledge which dwelleth in us is the cause why we sin but as Paul speaks of himself it is sin which dwelleth in us Not I as I but sinne that dwelleth in me So then a man borne of God when he treads beside the line he may say it is not I but sinne that dwells in me so in this sense it is a truth that he that is borne of God as born of God doth not sin nor cannot sin This is pious and truth but under correction I do not think it to be the square meaning of this text What then some think it to be this He that is borne of God sinneth not that is sinneth not as the devil did who ve se 8. of this chapter sinneth not sinned but sinneth from the beginning And this is like to be the mind of this text for that it is said in the same verse before He that committeth sinne is of the Devill That I think is too short which some say that the proper sense of this Text is he that is born of God sinneth not that sinne of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost In a word then the full meaning is that he that is borne of God doth not commit sinne that is he doth not make it his practice his occupation his work he doth it when he doth it besides his minde and when he doth it he is besides himself in that particular as the Prodigal was It is long of some fits in his disease when he doth it not onely as his act but as his work who give themselves over to be sould and servants to sin So Paul so Christ Matth. 7 23 Depart from me all ye that work iniquity Therefore Saint John speaks of such who are not regenerate whose desire is to sin and are afire to commit it For otherwise all the regenerate do sin so this our Apostle If we say we say we have no sin we seduce our selves Nor do they sin onely of infirmity but sometimes they fall into greater sins even into some of the greatest sins but this is not unto death as our Apostle saith So that such as are born of God sin they may sin they do and sometimes great sins but to go on in a course of finning to the death this they do not that they cannot do because they are born of God The onely shew of exception that can be taken is that Adam who is called they say Luke 3. ult. the son of God did sin and might as the state stood with him unto death And the Angels called the sons of God Job 2. 1. did a many of them sin unto death But we read not that these were said to be borne of God or that they had this seed remaining in them They were called the sons of God in respect of that that holinesse wherein they were created but the regenerate that are said to be borne of God are so said not onely in respect of the image of God but of Christ and the grace of regeneration which is rooted in Christ which as it cannot die in Christ the roote so it cannot wither away in Christians the branches The sap which is still alive and fresh in Christ is by the Spirit of Christ kept so alive in them that albeit it do not keep them from sinning yet it doth so preserve them that they cannot sin unto death they are so the members of Christ that he will not suffer any of his true members to sin all their spiritual life away Quest N. 2. How can a regenerate man sin since grace is predominant and the infused Theological habits of faith hope and charity are stronger then their sins Answ 'T is true they are so and should always shew themselves to be so And Divines make this difference between moral vertues acquired and spiritual habits and graces that for habits moral we may use them as we will that they are under the free Power of our wills but for habits and graces infused into our wills the seat of them our wills are rather under them and their power Then thus under the power and determination of God that there is a force in them to rule and over-rule all In this the string is in the hand of God and therefore it is said in the Word of God that he it is that doth make us walk in his wayes and keep his Lawes Had we a fulnesse of created graces as the Angels had yet if God stand by and leave us to them and our selves and do not uphold us we may fall for all them though there be nothing from without or from within to push us down the mutability only of our own free will might do it in us as it did in the lapsed Angels But those habits or divine qualities being lost in Adam in whom we all sinned such as are regenerated and born againe have supernatural graces of redemption which albeit they be not so full yet are more firme then those of creation were Those of God as Creator were lost those of God in Christ our Redeemer can never be so lost but as the same St. John saith There is a seed remaining in them which doth so keep spiritual force up in them that they cannot sin unto death Quest But how then is the spirit stronger then the flesh and the infused habit of grace may be said to have a ruling hand over our will Answ It hath such a rule many ways but in this one thing the power of the Spirit appeares above the power of the flesh for that the Spirit doth ever bring us first or last one way or other to repent of the works of the flesh but the flesh is never able to make us sorry for and repent of the fruits and acts of the Spirit No man is sorry for his vertues all good men are for their vices FINIS BOOKS lately Printed for John Bartlet and to be sold at the Gill-Cup on the south side of Pauls over against the Drapers A Volume of Dr. Tho. Taylors in Fol. Dr. Harris works in fol. A supplement to the former Edition in 4. His threefold state of man 12. Sibs excellency of the Gospel 12. Christs Exaltation in 12. The