-t6 G'otj'1 noticing the Sin of Natl(r.e• .. State U. is ,evideQt, it is 'ery little believ!d in .the .world. Few are concetned to get their corr-upt converfation changed ; .but fewer~ by far, to get .their .nature _7.changed • . \,Moll m~n ::.know not what they are, nor.. :what fpiritsqhey are of: tthey are as the eye, . which (eetng-many. thing$ never fees ·iifelf. But .until ye,- kno~,--, every, one-' th~1··p1ague of his , ·own heart, there ·is no.hQpe of your recoverf. (Why will · ye not believe it 'hYe:have plain fctipture tdHmony for i.t; but you are loth to ent-ertain -Juch,an ill opinion of your· ' {elves. Ala~ !. that-is the na1·ure of yoar: -difeafe,- Rev. ~ii. . ·J 1· ·'~*Chou- · · lmo'J)Jejl ,not' that thou ar(. 'Wret~bed~,. and _mi· _ fenthle, and poor..;' ·andbiinrl, and naked. · Lord, open their ~yes to fee it, before they die of it; and ·in..hell Jift up their -eyes, ·andJee'What-they will not,Jee,sow. · . · · · I fhalHhut"!iJp ·this we!ghty point of the corr.upti~n .·of -man's na.ture, .,with a>few words·tQ-.another do6l:rine from • . .the text; · .. Docrrine; ·:God titkn[ieda!notice'Ofstir natural cor,rup– - >Jio.n) or thejin ofour nature. Thi~ he tefiifies two ways. ,l. By' his word, as in the te~t, God faw-.Jhat eve,.y .s· · mttg~nati,on of;t-be thoughts ofm.a.n't heart waJ .qnly evil:con– •tinu.!l,flv. ~--'See 1~fal.' xiv. :, 3· , 2. By his works. Gr>d -writs his.particular notice··of it, and difpleafure with it, ,as in many,of his.wot,ks; fo efpeci~lly in thefe two. _ (I.) In the death o£ the infant children of.men. Ma.nr ·mi feri es they have been expofed to: ..they were drov{ned i" the deluge; confumed-inSo.domby fire and brimfrone; they have been Oain with-the fword, dafned a.gainll .~he fton~s, and are ll:ill dying ordinary deaths: \-Vl1at is the uue caufe of ·this? .On .what gr~und cloth a holy God thus purfue them ? Is it the fin of their parents·? That may be the oc· . cafion of the Loid's railing the pr:ocefs againfi them? but it muft be their own fio,1 that is the ground of the fenten~e paffiog on> them: . for the foul ,t.ha'f jinneth, ·it jhq/1 di;~ faith God, Ezek. XV'iii. 4· Is it their ownaaual fin? They have none. But as ·men do with toa.ds and ferpents, 'which they kill at firll fight, before they have done any hurt; be• caufe of their venomous natqre; [o is it in this cafe. (2.) In.the birth of the elect .children of God. When the Lord is about to change their nature;· he makes the finof • their nature Jyheavy on ·their fpiri'tS. _,Vh'en he minds to · ' · let '
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