36 34epArmonpof íDe Vbi$u2tíÍiíbuíe', Chap. III. miflionof any aîlual Sin. The Cries of Infants who r-, are only eloquent to grief; but dumb to all thingselfe, diCcover that MiCeries attend them. The Tears which are born with their Eyes fignifie they are come into a flare of Sorrow. How many Troops of Deadly Dif- eafes are ready to feize on them immediately after their Entrance into the World ? which are the apparent of fens of God's difpleafizre, and therefore argue Man e nor, fir y of Tome great Pa. to be g uilt me crime from his Birth. The ßima: ?ens melior Ignorance of this made the Heathens accùfe Nature, rriß ho iinor an Hover-- indulgent blaf p heme God under that mask , as lets kind and ca tuerir. to Man than to the Creatures belowhim.. JlinProl°1 °7 They are not under fo hard a Law of coming into the World. They are prefentlyinffru&ed to Swim, to. Flye, to Run for their prefervation. They are cloathed by Nature, and their Habits grow in proportion with their Bodies, Tome with Feathers, force with Wool, others with Scales which are both Habit and Armour: But Manwho is alone fenfible of fhame, is born naked, and though of a more delicate temper is more expofed to injuries by difremper'd Seafons, and utterly unable to repel or avoid the evils that encompafs him. Now the account the scripture gives of Original Sin filences all thefe complaints. Man is a Tranfgreflbr from the Womb, and how can he expel a favourable Recepti- on into theEmpire ofan offendedGod ? Briefly, Some- times Death enters into the retirementsof Nature, and changes the Womb into a Grave; which proves, that affoon as we partake ofthe humane Nature,weare guil- Rom.6.s3. ty of the Sin that is common to it For the wages of Sin is Death. Adam in his innocent Bate had thePri- nom. $.14, viledgeof Immortality, but by himSin entred into the g4 17. mold, and death by fin, and fo deathpafed upon all men, as a jufk Sentence upon the-guilty, for that all men have finned. 2.An
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