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V
E
R. 3.
Ephe/ran.r,
Chap.
2e
211
Again,it mull
teach
us
to
comeout
ofour
felves;
if
favourite
(
hould
Y/e
:.
lofe
the
favour
of
a
Prince, not to
fee
the
face
of
him,
as
i
i6falom
;
if
Goeourofchy
a
Tenant
were caft
forth
of
his
hold
;
if
a
man for fome offence,
for
mercy.
fhould be
in
the
hands
of
fome hard cerberus.like
Keeper;
fhould have
his
houfe on fire,
would
we
not hold thefe conditions
fearful! and full
of
confufion
e
What
then
(hall
the
flare
of
fuch be,
as
are
difcountenanced
with
God,
whofe
loving
kindneffe
is
better then life,
whofe wrath and
an-
Pfa1.63s
ger
is
more bitter then death
?
well may
they
take their leave
of
all
cre-
ated comforts,
that
f'cand
under
Gods
difpleafure
:
who
at
an
mitant
can
xeb.1z.29:
turn them out
of
all
;
whore
wrath
is
a
canfaming fire.
Thirdly,
it
muff
teach
us
often
to
view
our
felves
:
Why
are there
Vie
;.
left
as
pricks in
our
fides,
blindneffe
of
minde, crookedneffe
of
will, v
+ew
thy
trite
laves
of
evil) in
our members rebelling,
ficknefl'e,
poverty, reproach
? kept
umhje,
but to
humble us.
Whofo
blefeth
himfelfe,
the Lords
jealoafie1hallfmoak
ne,it,ay.,9
io
againfl
thatfeule.
Our
age
is fo full
of
Si/de/arcs,
that
lohn Baptift
or
the
the
Spirit
of
Elias had need
to
be fent
amongft
us ;
forthough
.like
trum-
pets we daily found thefe things,
none, when hearing this, bethinketh
how he
may efcapethis
fire
which burneth to deflruclion; butthey hope
they
are
in
as
good
ftate
as
thefe
that
make
more !how.
By
nature]
Whence
it
is
plain,that
by nature
all
of
us
are finfull
;
fin- Doll.
full,
not
one)
in
regard
of
,ildams
fin
imputed, but
of
corruption or
All arefinfüll
concupifcencewith
which
we are conceived, Pfal.51.5.
er 58.3.
Gen.8.
by
natwe.
zr.
Eck.
r6.4,5,6.
Efay
53.6.é
r.4.
The
Papifls goe thus
farre,
t.
Say
they, we
could
not be thechildren
of
wrath
in juftice,
if
there were
not
matter
of
wrath with
us. z.
There
is
fiat
the
rebellion
of
our
Parents,ours,
becaufe we were
in his
loynes.
3.
There
is
the habituall averfion
of
our mindes from
God,
which they
grant
an
habituall iniquity, for which little
ones are guilty
of
wrath.
We
hold further that for concupifcence,
that
is,
the
rebellion
of
the
law
of
the members
againft
the law
of
the
Spirit
of
God, that
for
this,
as fin
properly, they
are
the children
of
wrath
:
This the
Papifts deny to
be
fin,
and will have
it fin
onely becaufe
it
was caufed
by
fin, and
is
the
matter
of
fin,
but
not
fin
properly. Concupifcence
is
fin as
caufed from
fin,
guilty with
that
guilt which
it
may caufe. Concupifcence
not
fin
properly,not
a
foundation
of
guilt
in it
felf,
but both the
habit
and inde-
liberate
motions
are
fins
forbidden
in
the Law
:
for there not
deliberate
confent,
but the root,even the
teeth
and
the
pallions
of
it
unconfented to
;
for
the other
are
forbidden. In
the former,
fuch
a
thing
is
here forbid-
den
which
Paul
could not attain
to
but
by the Law
;
now
he
was
no
cyclop.
Again, Paulcalleth
it
fin, and
giveth to
it
the formali
caufe
of
fin.
Whatfoever letteth the whole ftrength
and
might
from obeying
the
Law,
is
againft
the Law
and accurfed.
God would
not
have created
man
with
it; why
t
becaufe it
is
not
in a
reafonable creature
a
pure ataxie
but
an
iniquity
:
and
the
goodneffe
of
the
reafonable creature
is
the con-
formity oi.the powers
ofit
to the Law
of
God. That
power which
is
bound to be conformable and
is
not, that
power
is a
breach
:
But fuch
is
this ; for
the Law
requires
that
all our
powers
fhouldlove
God with
all
the