20z ephejans,Chap.i, `TER, 1, Amphcation. Now touching the difcourfe, each part is amplified from the caufes. I. Their death is fet down from the kinde. 2. From thecaufes, which arc outward, and inward. 3. From comparifon, which is addedby way ofprevention. Generalll Fitt in generali obferve how that the Apoffle doth open to them hint's obrer. \rabic. theircondition by nature, before he bringeth forth thegrace manifefted I. in Chrift. 2 __Secondly, th the tellçthus what is our condition by nature,dead. . 'Thirdly i whit this death of the foule is, a life dead in traaffes and f noes....$ . . ,, . . 4 Fourthly, that we yrenpt dead in formone or few fins, but in many Doll. fins, in trefßaffet. From thpj frgf} obferve ; Nilmen by. nature aredead to By nature all God. We are not like a manin fleep,nor like the Samaritangreatly wan. nrod.adw ded; but wears ltarlt dead in regard ofthe lifeofGod,Col.2.6,i3.Rem,3, Cohx., ;. 9,10,11 ,d-c. he proveth that all, both 'eves and Gentiles, were by nature Rom.3.,o,x3. corrupted altogether, lbw out of glory, I Cor.6.10, I I. 4dulterers,1dala- , Cor.6.,°. ters,theeves, covetous, &c. flailnot enter into the Kingdomeof C. od ; Such Rom.5.6. wereyou, Rom.5.6. re wereofnofrengtb, (faith theApoflle) no not of Lake .5.3.. Marrh.Y. feeble ftrength. And ofthe natural' man it is laid ; c.xtyfin veal dead,but is alive. Let the deadbury their dead. A man is by nature every day dead ; his body is mortali, in dying fromhis birth ; eternal] deathof foule and bodyhangeth over him. His foule is quite dead; for God (in regard of his prefence of fanllifying grace going from a man) he dyeth in foule, as the foule going from the body, naturali life isextina4 ; what this death is, compare Gal.2.19,20. & cap. 6.12,14, 1 5,16. 0/.3.2,3. I lohn 2.15,16. Objellion, But it may be faid ; Why, man hath force reliques ofknowledge : And force of the Heathen have excelled in vertuous ads without grace. eíln¡m. Every knowledge is not the life of God, flriétly fo called; but that 1. knowledge which affcâeth the heart to followGod,totruff in him,love Knowledge in him, &c. otherwife the Devils do knowGodin their kinde. Heathens In- rnffi«2.. The knowledge ofman is able to make himunexcufableonely,notable to make him liveaccording to God. For tbefe Heathens vertues, they Rom.,.xo. were but piltures without the foule and life of vertue in them ; good x' trees they were not, and therefore their fruit could not begoods all is notgold that glifters. TheSymptomes ofthis death are apparent inevery man: The want of the Decreesofmotion in the foule,they are fours : n. To underftand. 2. To think. 3. Towill. 4. To doe. Now all thefe,the knowledge,the willing, the doing, nay the very thinkingofagood thought, are not in nature, there is a loffeofall the fentes : Look as adead body feethnot, heareth not, hath nocommon fenfe ; fo is man by nature, he feethnot God palling by him again and again inmercy and judgement. He hath nocare ofthe heart, to hear God, he is not touched with the feeling of Godsjudgements, works, words, the tokens ofdeath are everywhere upon him. This
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