COPoo? ano famiïp lsoot. 25 ; fo that their Hearts are turned to the world from God,; and filled with impiety, filthinelS, and injuftice ; and their Reafon is but a fervant to their fenfes; and their (m) mind, and love, and life is carnal : and this carnal mind is enmity to the Holinefs of God, and cannot be fubje& to his Law. This corruption is hereditary, and is become as it were a Nature to us ; being the mortal malady ofall our Natures. And it is eafie to know, that fueh an unholy wicked' Nature , muft needs be loathfome to God, and (n) unfit fo the happy en- joyment of his love, either here, or in the life to come : For, what Communion bathLight with Darknefs? VI. Hence then it is eafie to fee, What Grace needful to a mans falvation. So odious a creature, fuck an unthankful Rebel, that is turned away from God, and fet againft him, and defiledwith all this filth of fin, muft needs be both (o) Renewed and Reconciled, San-. Ilified and Pardoned, ifever he will be faxed. To Love God andbe Beloved byhim, and to be Delighted herein, in the fight ofhis Glory,is the Heaven and Happinefs of fouls : And all this is contrary to an Unholy State. Till men have New andHoly Hearts, they can neither See God, nor Love him, nor Delight in him, nor take him for their chiefcontent : For the Flip and World have their Delight and Love. And till fin be ( p) pardoned, and God reconciled to the foul, what Joy or Peace can it expect from him, whofe .Nature and YuJlice engageth him to loath and pusnifh it ? (m) Rom.8.5 ,6,7. (n) Pfal.4. 3. 2 Cor,6. 14,17 . (o) Pfal.32.I,2,. I Cor.E.1 i.TiF.2. I4. Tit .3. 5,6,7 . lieb. 14.14.1-Mat.5 (p) Rom .5.z,2,3;, VII. And
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