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ephejans,Chap.i,
`TER,
1,
Amphcation.
Now
touching the difcourfe, each part
is
amplified
from
the
caufes.
I. Their
death
is
fet
down
from the kinde.
2.
From the
caufes, which
arc
outward,
and
inward. 3. From comparifon, which
is
addedby
way
of
prevention.
Generalll
Fitt
in
generali obferve
how that the Apoffle doth
open
to
them
hint's
obrer.
\rabic.
theircondition by nature, before
he
bringeth forth the
grace manifefted
I.
in
Chrift.
2
__Secondly,
th the
tellçth
us
what
is
our condition by nature,
dead.
.
'Thirdly
i
whit
this death
of
the
foule is, a life
dead
in
traaffes
and
f
noes....$
.
.
,,
.
.
4
Fourthly,
that
we
yre
npt
dead
in
form
one
or
few
fins,
but
in
many
Doll.
fins, in
trefßaffet.
From
thpj
frgf}
obferve
;
Nil
men
by.
nature
are
dead
to
By
nature all
God.
We
are
not
like
a
man
in
fleep,nor
like
the
Samaritan
greatly
wan.
nrod.adw
ded;
but
wears
ltarlt dead in regard
ofthe
life
ofGod,Col.2.6,i3.Rem,3,
Cohx.,
;.
9,10,11
,d-c. he proveth
that
all, both
'eves
and
Gentiles,
were
by
nature
Rom.3.,o,x3.
corrupted altogether,
lbw
out of
glory,
I
Cor.6.10,
I
I.
4dulterers,1dala-
, Cor.6.,
°.
ters,
theeves,
covetous,
&c. flail
not
enter into the Kingdome
of
C.
od
;
Such
Rom.5.6.
wereyou,
Rom.5.6.
re
were
ofnofrengtb,
(faith the
Apoflle)
no
not of
Lake
.5.3..
Marrh.Y.
feeble
ftrength. And
of
the natural' man it
is
laid
;
c.xty
fin
veal
dead,but
is
alive.
Let
the dead
bury
their
dead.
A man
is
by
nature every day
dead
;
his
body
is
mortali,
in
dying
from
his
birth
;
eternal]
death
of
foule and
body
hangeth over him.
His
foule
is
quite
dead;
for God
(in
regard
of
his
prefence
of
fanllifying
grace going from
a
man) he
dyeth
in
foule,
as
the
foule
going
from
the
body,
naturali
life
is
extina4
;
what this death
is,
compare
Gal.2.19,20.
&
cap.
6.1
2,14,
1
5,16.
0/.3.2,3.
I lohn
2.15,16.
Objellion,
But it may be faid
;
Why,
man hath force reliques
of
knowledge
:
And force
of
the Heathen
have excelled in vertuous
ads
without
grace.
eíln
¡m.
Every knowledge
is
not the
life
of
God,
flriétly
fo
called;
but
that
1.
knowledge which affcâeth the heart to follow
God,to
truff
in him,love
Knowledge
in
him, &c. otherwife
the
Devils do know
God
in their kinde.
Heathens In-
rnffi«2..
The
knowledge
of
man
is
able to make him
unexcufable
onely
,not
able
to
make him
live
according to God.
For
tbefe Heathens vertues,
they
Rom.,.xo.
were but piltures without
the
foule and life
of
vertue
in
them
;
good
x'
trees
they were not,
and
therefore their
fruit could
not
be
goods
all
is
notgold that glifters.
The
Symptomes ofthis death
are
apparent
in
every man: The
want
of
the Decrees
of
motion
in
the foule,they
are
fours
:
n.
To
underftand.
2.
To
think.
3.
To
will.
4.
To
doe.
Now
all
thefe,the
knowledge,the
willing,
the doing,
nay
the very thinking
ofa
good thought,
are not
in
nature, there
is a
loffe
of
all
the
fentes
:
Look
as a
dead body
feeth
not,
heareth not,
hath
no
common
fenfe
;
fo
is
man by nature, he
feeth
not
God
palling
by him
again and again
in
mercy
and
judgement.
He
hath
no
care
ofthe
heart, to
hear
God,
he
is
not touched with the
feeling of
Godsjudgements, works, words, the
tokens
of
death are
every
where
upon him.
This