• Head I. .Corruption of Nature applied. · ,9 5 garment ,.which the ftefh of the fact ifice was cardeq in~_ thi>.' ./ it touched other things, did not make them holy: bgt.!Jc that was u-ocle~n touching any thing, wl~ether .commo.n or facred, fi1ade it unclean. Even .fo .thy duties ca_n,np( make tliy corr-upt foul ~oly, tho' they in ~h~m(dy~s . be go.od ; bqt thy corrupt h~at~t ~efiles tb.em, 'an~ makes _them unclean, Hag. ii. t 2, 13, 1.4. Thou waft wont to divide thy works into two forts ; fome go,od, fome evil; hut thou mufi count ·. again, and puf them altun~er one head; ·{or .God writes,on thern all, only e?il. "'fhis ·is lamenta~le. It will be no wonder to.fee ~thofe oeg in harvelt, .whofold the\r hands ,to ~ . ' .. ·. fleep in feed-ti~e: but to be labou~ing with others in the lpring, and yet have nothing to reap when the .harveft · . ;...comesoi;is a ver,y fael .cafe; , and ;will ·be th~ cafe · ~f all pro.. · Jeff'ors Jiving arid d.ying in t>heir natural fiate. · Laflly, Thou can£1: not'·.help thy'.felf. What c~nll: thou ... do to take away thy fin, who art.-wholly corrupt ?-Nothing ~rul ybut fin. 1fa natural man begi·n .to ·relent, drop .a tea.r fer his fin and reform, prefently thevcorrupt' heart appre– he.~ds, at Jea_ll, a .merit of congruity :•., he has done much himfelf (he thinks,) and God cannot but do more for him . -~n t,hat' account. In the O)ean time he d9eS "OOtbio·g' but . fi,n : .fo th.at the congruous merit is, that the leper be put / out nfihe camp~ the dead foul buried out of light; and the conupdumpcalt inro the pit. How canfi thou think to !ecover thyfelf by any_ thing thou canll do ? \Vill mud and -.h lth wafh out filthinefs? and wilt · tHou purge out fin by finoiog ? Job.took a potllrerd t9 fcrape hi'mfelf, becauf~ his hands were as full of boils as his body. This .is the cafe of thy corrupt foul : · not to be recovered but by Jefus Chrift, w.hofeflrength was dried up like a potjJJerd, Pfal. xxii . t5. Thou a.rt poor i.nde~d, extremelymiJeraJ;le andEf!oqr, Rev. iii. 17. Thou haH ~o thelter but .a refuge of1r's; nogar– ment for thy fqul, but ,filthy rags .; nothi~g to ... nourifn it but huft{s that cano.ot fatisfy, '}fore than th~'t·~ •t~ou haft got fuch a b1 uife i~ the lo~ns of Adam, which .is net ye_t pue.d, that thou ;ut rwithout jlrmgth, Rpqt. v. 6. unable to do or :work for tby{df; nay, more tha~ aU ~bis, thou c.try[t not fo much as feek. aright, but .lie!l heJplefs, as an inf<:~.nt expofj d in the open fideL E~el:. . xvi. 5. U£ .r: lil. l exh~ntyou tJ bdieve this f~::i tr.uth. _&l&f.s! it <. J l.S
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