t, the Reader. v errors and milakes; fo that, becoming of a fpiritual and holy man, a carnal and corrupt man, He did not receive, neither could he know favingly the things of God. He be- came quite blind, having loft his vifible faculty, as to all fpiritual difcerning. His will, the ruling and governing faculty, utterly loft its re &itude, and became crook- ed, froward, perverfe, rebellious and obflinate, ftrongly inclined and bent to evil, to all evil, only to evil, always and conftantly to evil ; and altogether averíe from every thing truly good ; willing that which God nilled, and milling that which he willed. His affzitions turned all mutinous, diforderly, difturbed and confufed, furioufly ruffling on prohibited obje&s, as the horfe rufheth into the battle : And what movings of them were toward any commanded obje &, thefe were altogether irregular ; not fo much as one of them moved toward any fuch obje &, purely or primarly, becaufe it was a thing commanded. His memory quite loft its retentive faculty, i as to the re- membring of any thing fpiritually good, n the way it fhould have been remembred ; it became in that refpe& as a lecky veflel, all fuch things flipping and running through and out of it. His confcience, being defiled and made guilty, became clamorous, unquiet, challenging and accufing, boifterous and ftormy, filling him with horror ; and ( when not ftupified and benummed with fpiritually lethargick fecurity, or cauterized) putting him upon the rack, "and making a kind of hell in his bom fom, fo that he was Magur- mifrabib, terror round about, even his own Burrio and tormentor. All the members of his body were yielded to be the weapons, àf' unrighteoufnefs to fin : So that all the faculties and powers of his foul, and members of his body, were on the fudden up in arms in hoftility and rebellion againft God, proclaiming and waging war with him, and on the matter blafphe- moufly bidding him a defiance : O fad and forrowful revolution, in and on the little world Man! Heu quantum mutatus ab illo I God made him upright, but he fought out to himfelf many inventions ; Wo to us, for we have finned, and the crown bath fallen from our head. And by the lofs of.. our original righteoufhefs, and the corruption of our whole nature, with the innumerable a &ual fns and trail:.
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