... \. .... S,,'T .A T E ·JI"" .. . The, 8TA1?E of ~A .TURE or of EN~ 'l.H.RE DE-PRA ¥AT ION•. / '!?he. SINFULNEss. of Maa's ·Natural- State:~ - . . ( . I . GB'NE SI s ·vi: f· .· · .diuJ:Godfaw that · th~ tzvickednefr tJ/' tmm· 'W"aJ, gf"ettf ' i?r , tbi- earth, 11nd that ·every im-agination of the- thought.r• of hi J heart ttvaJ 'only evil continua-lly• . .. WE have feen wnat man-was; as God made him, a ; lovely and~ happy crea~ure: let us view him no:v·: as he ha:th unmade. hnnfelf: afld we ffiall fee · him a ·finful and miferable creature·. This~is - the fad fiate · WeW ere b'rought ·into by the' fall; . a fl;ate· ;lS bla-c-k- and ~ . ~ - doleful as the forme-r .was ·glorious; and this we common-;. / , ly c-all; The }late: of na.tm:e, or ?Jmn_'rnatural flate, ac• cordin-g to that of the. apofile, Eph.. ii. ' 3 · And were bJ' nattfte tbe ehildren 'l)fwr'tlt-h, even a.1 others. And herein · ' two ·things are.to be confiderecl·; Jfl. TheJinfulnefs; 2dly · The mifery of this ftate, in which alJ the unr eg~nerate do · li~ e. I begin with t:he)infid.neft ·ofmanls natura/flat!, whereof the text gives us 'a full, tho' fhort account: And ? Codfo~ that .'the wicltednefi ofman rr.uas great, &c. Tl1e- fcope and defigm of thefe-words -is, to ch:ar God's < Jullice, in bringing the ..flood. on-the old world'. Ther~ are two particular caufes of it,taken notice,of in the preceeding y~rfes-. ( 1; ) • 1ixt marri-ag.es,.-ver . 2'. The fom ofiGod, the · poilerit:y of Seth and Enos, profeffors of the .true religion~ married with the daughters of men, the piofane curfed race of Cain·. Th~y did not carry the-matter before the Lord,. that .he might chu(e for them·, Pfal. xlvii. 4· But with.out an~ ref~_e.ct_ to the will of God, _ th'ey~ ch~G>t~ ,; - not ~ accor4\:
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