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BUt, because our regeneration is but onely inchoate or begun, and
not as yet perfect, so that whereas we before were flesh altogether, but now consist partly of Spirit, and partly of flesh, which still fight within us one against the other, in such manner that the good which we would that we cannot do, but do serve with our mind the Law of God, and with the flesh the Law of sin: Therefore we believe, what also we find by expe∣rience, that there is still much sla∣verie in the regenerate; much blind∣nesse in the minde and understand∣ing, much pravitie in the heart and affections, and many weaknesses and infirmities in all the powers of soul and body: So that we dayly stand in need of a new supply of Gods grace, whereby our mindes may be more and more illuminated, our wills cor∣rected and reformed, and our powers to that which is good increased and perfected. And therefore as long as we are here in the flesh, our Free-will is never truely and perfectly free, that is, having by it's self sufficient power to eschew that which is evill, and do that which is good: especially when as the events also of all things are not
in our power, but in the hand of God; and it is further necessarie that all those things come to passe or be done, not what we have thought upon, but whatsoevera 1.1 his hand and his counsell have determined before to be done.
Act. 4.2••.