' ii.tld i; C6rf'uption of .J.Vature applied. · '3. if.·it were poffible h~ could go to heaven, in that.flate, he ' would no otherwife g·o to it:, _than bow he comes fo ·the' du..: · ties of holinefsi that is, leaving his·heaTt behind him ~· u I E H. FOr lamentatio'ii. weH may we lame'nt thy cafe;· 0 natural inan, fot it is the fa-ddefi 'cafe ·one can be in, out' ~ ef helL It is time· to~ lamenC ftir thee ; for thou art dead" already, dead while1thou iivefi; thou carriefi about' with thee a dead fouJ•in·a living body: and becaufe tli9u ~rtdead, tnou canfl not lament: thy own -cafe-~ Thou ardothfitrne in th'e fight of Cod; · for thou art altogether corrupt.•· Thou !Jafl no good in thee ; thy foul is a ·mafs of dark·rtefs; rebel·. lion, aod vilenefs b~fore the Lord. Thou thinkdt,' perhaps, · that thou haft a good heart tQ God; ·good·inclinations, and · good defires: b~t God knows there is rtoibing-good.in .thee, . bi.it,.every imagi:!Zation-of th'ihe heart·iron/y.·evil. Thou · · canfl do mi·g9od; th'ou canfi do nothing brit fin. For, Firj] 1 Thou ar~ th>efervant if }hi, Ram. vi. 17. and there foieftell fropzrightebufnefs', ver. 20. Whateverrighteouf– nefs be, (poor foul) thou art free of it ·; thou.dofi not, th~u. ~anfi not tneddle ·with it. ;Thou.·;tn under the dominion of ffri; a dominit>n where ri~h'teoufoefs can have no place. · Thou art a child a-nd :fervant· l>f the devil, ~ ho' thou• b~ antither wizard nor witch,; f~emg thou art yet in the fiate-: · Of..rlature, J o-hn' Vifi. 44•'~ Li CU' C of J!;UT father fh~ dev.il•. . I And to prevent anyrmifl:ctk~; confider, that fin .and Satan : l1ave·two- forts of fef.vants-, (1.) There are fome -employed, . •as it 'were, · in <:oa.rfer work ; thofe bear the devil~s ·.m:trk: .. in.. th<eir fore-head9/ 'haviilg no'form ofgodliaefs; bti'ta'ie pro- · f~ne, grofly ignorant, mere moralills, not fo much as per-: forming the:.e&terrial duties of religion, bll't ii'ving to the .· _view of H1e world, as fons"of earth , only minding ear th(J-.· t hings; .Phi lip . iii. 19. (2.) There a:re fome employed in a mote refined fort of fervi ce to fin, who1:arry the devil '!:· mark'in their right hand ; which they• can, and do hide)· fr'om the view of the WOt Id. Tbefe· are clofs h y pocrites;.~ . who·facrifice as mpclY to the coaupt mind, as the other to ·,, the flefh, Eph . ii. 3. Thefe are ruined by a more uodifcern– able trade of fin:· pride, .unbelief, fdf-feeking, and the like~ rwarm i~, and' prey upon their corrupted, who11y corrupted ., .rguls. · Both are ferva!?ts ohhe· fame· ho~fe· ; the latter a.s . • f:ar as the.former. froanri2hteoufnefs·. . · ' ' 50' li"'~mJJy; ;
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