Sta.te I I•. ' fiate, tak-e with it; bel:eve tbe corruption of your nature·.: : and let Chrifl and his grace be precwu:; in youv eyes. · ·0 that ye would at length be fe,i-uus about the ftate of your fo1,1ls ! \iVhat mind ye to do ~ Ye mutt die ; ,Ye muft ap- , pear before the judgment-feat of God . Will ye ly down, ~ and fleep another night at eafe. in this cafe ? Do it not ·; . for before another day you maybe fiiled before God's d1 ead– Jul tr!bunai, in the glave-clo,aths of your corrupt Hate; ·and your vile fouls caft ioto the pit of defhutlion, as a cor-'· · 1upt lump, to be far ever buried .out of God's fight. :For J. tefl:ify unto yol!l all, there is no peac~ with God, no par..; don, no heaven for you, in this fiate: th.:re is bu~ a fl:e:p bet~xt you and eternal defiruction from the prefence of the L'ord ; if the brittle thread of your life, which may be · ~ brok~ with a· touch, ere you a.re aware, be indeed. broken ~hile you _are in this !late ; you are ruined fo• ever, and withol!t remedy. But come fpeedi!y to JejuJ Chriji: be has cleaofed as vi!e fouls as yours ; and he will y~t Cleanf~ ;he blood that he _bath not_cleanfid, Joel iii. 21. Thus far:, t.~f the Linfulnefs of m:cn's natur_al ftate. . : .H E A D ll. The MISERY nf l\1an's natural State; EPHESIANS ii. 3• ., We-<V.'ere b.y nature the children of 'Wrath, even ar · ~otbcrJ. ' · . ~ . JJ AVIN€; !hewed you ' the .finfulnef.r .of man''s natural "]_ fiate, I come r:ow to lay before you the miferxof it~ A 1inful fiate (:annot be but a mifer~b!c: fiat e. If fin g.o be– fore, wrath follows of courfe Corruption and delhu~iot.i are fo knit to~ether, that the Holy Ghofi calls deilruai6n~ ev~o eternal ~eflruetioo, corru'ption, Gal. vi. 8. H c that forwetb to hi! flefh,Jhall if-thejlejh reap con·uption, that is; evedaHing deftruetion ~ as is clear fro1 mits being oppofed tQ life everlafring, in th~ f~ll~win~ c!auf:; A;nd fo the ~ p.o~Le · •
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