The naturat Stock, a dead Stock.'. St~te i'll,. all the branches in it, and 'With it. The root is empoifoned;. thence the branches come to be infeCl:ed : death is in the. pot; and all that tafie of the p~lfe, or pottage, are killed .. Know then, dtat every natural maP ~sa bra-nch of. a kill– ing ftock. Our natural ;root not only gives-. us not life, but it has a kiUing power reaching all the branches thereoL There.are four things, which the 6r:fi: Adam. conveys to all his branches; and _they ate abiding in, and lying on, fuch of them as are not ingrafted to Chriff-. Firfl,. A corrupt na{ure . He finned , and his n~ture was thereby cerrupted or depraved; and .this corruption is ·conveyed to all his po– fierity. He was inf~:::Cl:ed, and the cont 2gion fpread· itfelf over ~!I his feed.. Secondly. Guilt, that is, an o~li~ gation to punifhment,' Rom . v. ~i 1. By one manjin entered/ into the rwor<d, and death by fin ,: andJo death paffid upon– ail men , /or tl;at ali have finned. The threatnings of the. law, as cords of deat h, ar-e twii"ted about the branches of the . old frock, to dr'aw them ov er t·he he9·ge into the fire. And tiil they be cut off f~:om this ftock bv the p1 uoing knife, the fword of venj!eance hangs 1 0Vet their heads to cut them down . Thirdly , This kii!ing Hock t ra nl{nits t-he -curfe into the br~nches.. The Hock, as the Hock (for I fpeak il0t of1' .Adam in his perfona,fand private cap.•city) being cur fed; fo ate the branches. Gai: iii. 10 For a;f many as are of th-e tttJorks Of th~ jaw, are under- the curfe . I'his curfe atfeets rhe , whole mant.a.nd ell t~b a t be fopgs to b11n , every th ing he pof– felfe::s: and wo1ke.th three w:.;.ys. ·(1.) A;poifon, infe.Cl:ing; thus their blejJingi are cur/ed, Mal 1i . 2 . · Whatever t~e · man enj-oys, it can do him no goqd, but ev il; being-thus im– poifoned by the curfe. Hi ~ profperity m the world dejlroy.r him. Ptov.i.- ~2 fhe mini(hy of the gofpel is a.Javour d( deatlnmto death: to him . ~ Cor. it •. 16·. His- feemi A~ :n– t<linmen ts in religion are curfc'd to him: his knowledge fcrves but to -puff him up, a11d ·his duries to keep him-back from Chrif:. (2.) ltwo;keth as a moth, confumi ng a nd wailing by little and li ttle, Hof v. 12. TheN:j~ore will! be ' unto Ephrai-m as a moth. ) fher~ is a worm at the 'oot, confuming thern by de.grees •. Thus the curfe pu fued Saul, till it wormed him out of :,.ll bis enjoyment$, and cut off the very fhew he ht.td of. religion. i'lometirnes they decdy like t.h.efaJ of lambs. 1 and melt away as lhe fno:wil\ tun !hine. (2.)
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