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Sinfull lulls
corrupt
Coule
and body.
yfe
I:
Pfal.
r4.
;.
Job.
14.6.
leis
good
to
take notice
of
our corrupt
e-
fface,
that
wee
may lay
hold
of
Cleift.
rfe
a,
And
to
put off
an cftate
fo
corrupted.
Epheliai»r,
Chap.q..
V
E
R.22
their
oldconverfation
is
with them,
juftifie
themfelvcs,
as
if
the
worft
piece
were
outward,
that
within
they
beare
as
good
mindes as others,
though
in
their
lives
they
arc
not
fo
lrengthened:
now thefe
are wide;
for
who fo doth put offthe old man,
muff and will put
his workes off
alto.
Now
followeth the
defcription
of
the old
man.
r.
Sct downe
from this,
that
he
is
corrupted;which
is
fer
downe by the
caufe,
through
lofts;
which
are noted by
the quality
of
them,deceitfulllufls. This
old
frame
I
would have you put off,
is
that corrupted
efface
of
foule
and
body which
is
caufed
by
finne, even
by themanifold
lulls wherewith
we are compafl'ed,
which
lofts are exceeding
deceitfull
both
to
infrnu-
ate themfelves for
to
bee entertained,
and
to
plead for
the
retaining
of
them
once
admitted. Here therefore
are
3.
things ro be
confit.
dered.
I
.
That
lulls breede
thecorruption
of
foule and
body.
a. That
not this
or that
fingle finne,
but
a
multitude
of luls
are
in
the
unregenerate,
the old
man corrupt
through tufts,
3.
That
the
!tiffs
of
the
fiefh
are guileful!, very full
of
deceit,
corrupt with
deceivea6le
lulls.
For the
firff,
we muff
know that
finfull
lulls they bring
corruption
throughout
the whole man,
foule and
body; they corrupt
the
Louie,
not
in
regard
of
the
effentiali life
of
it, for fo the
foule is
of
an im-
mortal!, incorruptible
nature, but
in
regard of the
life
of
God
which
fometime it had, and
foundneffeof
grace wherewith it was
cloathed;
in
this
refped
lul
hath brought forth death
and corruption
on the
foule.For what
is
all kind
of
lulling, but
a
death
of
the
foule
t
What
are
the notions
of
this, but
!finches
ftreaming from the inherentcor.
ruptione And the
body
how
it is
corrupted
we neede
not
fpeake,
when fome
one little
member hath
armies
of
difeafes
which
befet
it.
For looke
as
a
moth
bred
in
a
garment, doth fret
and
confume it,
fo
finne
bred
in
us
by our owne
freewills
at
the
deviils fuggeftion, doth
more corrupt and
confume us.
Which
muff
teach
us,
fiat,
to
take notice
of
our
elate
by
nature,
We
are all
of
us
corrupted,
our foules
and
our bodies have
death
feared
in
them;
fo
that
we have
caufe
tolay hold
of
him that
is
the
way,
the
truth and
the life;
that (though
we
flinke
in
the grave)
can raife us up.
Becaufc
we
fcc
not
this corruption worke out
in
the
írength of
it,
therefore we
can
hardly be perfwaded
of
it; but
all
poyfoned
bodies
dye not prefently.
And
looke
as
woodwormes
cate
the
heart
of
a
board,
when no hole appeareth
in
the top
:
So it
is
with
lul,
all
outwardly
fee
meth
well,
when corruption hath
taken
deepe
hold
of
us.
It
muffmake us
willing
to
put
off
this old man, to
thinke that
it
is
altogether corrupted
:
Who
would not
part with
old rotten
appareil
that might
have
new!
who would
not
let
an
old rotten houfe
be pul.
led
downe that
a
new might be builded
a
So we fhould,
feiag the
old man
is
all
corrupted,
eafily and
willingly forgoe this
efare,
that
we