136 lv!an unable to recover himftlf. State H. ' ROt fo; you may love him, and thus lear him too ; yea ye aught to do ir, though ye were faints of the fi r[!: mag– nim9c. See Pfal. cxix. 10. lrlatth. x .28. Luke xii ·s. Jleb. xii. 2S, 29. Altho' ye have p<ifi the gnlpb of wrath, being in Jefus Chri11 ; yet it is but reafonable, your hearts fhiver, when ye look back to' it. Your fin {till deferres wra;h even as the fins of others: and it would be terrible to be in a fiery furn~ce ; aitho' by a miracle, -we were fo fenced ogainlt ir, as th;,a it could not harm us. I-I E A D III. lVlan's lTTTER INABILITY to recover hi1nfelf. Ro'MANs v. 6. For when "JJe rwerc yet without flrength, zn due time Chrij1 died for the ungodly. · JoHN vi. 44l'.To man can comt to me, except th~ 'Father, r.:;hit:h bath )en/ me, drarw him. ' ' 1[ X 7 E have now h~.d a vi!!W of the total corruption ofman's . VV oature, and that load of wrath wh ich lie-s on him, that gulph of mifery he is pl9nged into in his natural fbte. ~But there's one part of his thifery that deferves particular confi.deration; namely, his utter inability to recover_him– fclf, the knowledge of which is necdfuy for the ' due humi– Eatio'n of a finner. What I defign here is, only to propofe ~:few things, whereby to cm~vince the unregenerate man of this -hi;) inability; that be may fee an abfolut.e need cif ·Cbrifr, and of the power of his grace. As a man that is fallen into a pit, cannot be fuppofed to he!? himfelf out of it, but by one o'f two ways ; eithe r by doing all himfelf alone, or taking hold of, and improv:ng the help offered him by others : fo an unc()nvert'ed man cannot be fu.ppofed to help himfelf out of that fiate, hut either.in the way of the law, or covenant of works, by do· Jng' all ,.himfelf without Chrifi : die in the way of the - gofpel ~
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