[ 1360] Daily amendment of life enjoyned to the ma∣king up of the new Creature.
IT is said of Argo (the then Royal Soveraign of the Asiatique Seas) that be∣ing upon constant service;* 1.1 she was constantly repaired, and as one plank or board failed, she was ever and anon supplied with another that was more service∣able, insomuch that at last she became all new,* 1.2 which caused a great dispute amongst the Philosophers, of those times, whether she were the same ship as be∣fore or not: Thus it is that for our parts, we have daily and hourly served un∣der the commands of Sin and Sathan, made provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof,* 1.3 drawn iniquity with cords of Vanity, and sin as it were with a Cartrope,* 1.4 and daily like Ephraim increased in wickednesse, insomuch that there are not onely some bruises and brushes,* 1.5 but as it were a shipwrack of Faith, and all goodnesse in the frame of our pretious Souls; What then remains but that we should dye daily unto Sin,* 1.6 and live unto Righteousnesse, put in a new plank this day, and another to morrow; now subdue one lust, and another to mor∣row; this day conquer one Temptation, and the next another; be still on the mending hand, and then the question needs not be put, Whether we be the same or not.* 1.7* 1.8* 1.9 For old things being put away, all things will become new; we shall be new Men,* 1.10 new Creatures, we shall have new hearts, new spirits, and new songs in our mouthes,* 1.11 be made partakers of the new Covenant, and at last Inheritors of the new Ierusalem.