A Christian Survey for the Conscience, Confession · Chapter 3
CHAP. III. The firſt Question, touching a double Man in the Regenerate.
Whether eueryevery ſanctified man, and regenerate, doth conſiſt of a double man, that is, inward & outward?
NOW I come to the matter… in controuerſie, which ſummarily are compriſed in fiue Queſtions: for my primarie Antagoniſt did collect this alſo out of my Praelections, and condemne it, as may bee ſeene in the Theſes obiected by him againſt me▪ likewiſe in the end of his ſpeech againſt the Epilogue of my former Oration made in the Chapte… …ſe, hee … theſe words: Nihilominus tamèn hanc qui facit Zanchius, &c. Notwithſtanding I doe aſſeuere as falſe and monſtrous that diſtinction which Zanchius maketh in the fift propoſition, touching that perſeuerance of the Saints; betweene the double Man of the Regenerate; and that the Regenerate doe ſinne onelyonly in the fleſh, and not with the whole will and the whole heart. Theſe things hee; Whereby eueryevery one vnderſtandeth what he doth condemne in my doctrine; Verily, That the Regenerate conſiſteth of a double … that they in ſinning doe not ſinne, according to the ſpirit, but according to the fleſh, and therefore … with full & plenarie conſent of will.
Therefore touching that diſtinction, I doe affirme it to be Apoſtelicall, & moſt ancient in the Church, of God; and that by the iudgment of all the learned, and men of Go… inſomuch that I cannot but wonder how it ſhould come to paſſe, there Doctor in Diuinitie ſhould … this diſtinction monſtrous. Now what I meant by the name of inward and outward man, I explained in the Schooles an hundreth times, that is to ſay the inward Man to be the whole Man, as hee is borne of God and renewed by the Holy Spirit, and the ſame whole Man, as it is borne of Adam, corrupt, and depraued, to bee called the outward Man: the one whereof the Scriptures doe call the n…w; and the other, the old Man. For ſo all men of learning doe interpret, and (amongſt others) Bucer▪ in Epiſt. a… Rom. 7 & Epheſ. 3. although euen this interpretation of the inward out-outward Man, as though it were onelyonly mine, mine aduerſaries hauehave impugned. Put of this diſtinction there bee many teſtimonies in the Apoſtle Rom. 7▪ I delight in the Law of GOD, according to the inward … for I ſee one Law of my members rebelling againſt the … of my minde. Who in this place cannot ſee in the Apoſtle, being Regenerate, … double man, inward; and outward? Rom. 6. … old man … alſo true …. The old man (in the Apoſtles … oning) in the whole man … Adam concept both in ſoule and bodie. … off the old … and put on the new. What is the … the ſame man totally, as he is renewed and regenerate … Chriſt, Epheſ. 7. That his might … you according to the … of …, to be ſtrengthned in … holy ſpirit … the inward … which place Bucer: … (ſaith hee) the inward … man reformed, as by the … vnderſtandeth the … man; and …, and … ward is that which … calleth …ow, and the …, which … are old. Thus Bucer … putting off the old man, and p… ting on the …ow. … ▪ The old man of faith hee … whol …, as it is brought into the world, and … doe bring it with vsus from the wombe of our Mother, without the holy Spirit, which is called fleſh, Col. 3. Thus Bucer. Therfore it is apparant, That this diſtinction is not monſtrous.