their fin, in making the.eanh which God bad fo adorned, forthe ufe of man, a fink of fin, and-a Hage wbereon to;;.& _ :their wickedne!s, in deJlance of h~.rven. God faw th_is c::o:r.'• :ruption of ijf€; he not onLy ·knew it, and took notice of it, i>u_t he made him to know, that he did take notice of it ; and that he had not for:faken tile earth, tho' t'hey had for· faken he.a·ven. · Secondly, Corruption of nature, Every imagination ofth~ thought1 of his heari was on/;Y evil continua/f) All their wicked pracricts are here tr2oced to the fountain and fping~ l:Jead; a 'orrupt heart was the four.ce of all. The fo-ul whicfi, was made upright io all- its faculties, is nowwhoily difor-– dered . The he.art, that wa_s mace accordif)g. to God's own: he'art, is now t-he· reverfe of it, 4 forge of evil imaginations,. .-a fink of inordinate affeetiol'ls, CJ.Ad a ltore--houfe of all impiety, Mad rii. 2J , . 2.2.. _ ].ehold the heart of the n-atural -man; as -it is opefled ·in our te:x.t. The tnied is defiled;~ the~ thou-ghts of the heart are evit ; the will and affetl:ions-. are defiled ; the 'imagi1tation of the thoughtJ if the heart, (i.e. whatf.oeve'r t.he heart fram<:th wi thin itfelf by think:'. ing, fuch as judgment, choice; ptupofes , devices-; rlefires',. every inwar-d motion:) or rather,' the fr-ame of q~oughts a£ ' "'. the ' he-art, (namely, the fta:me, make, or mould, ' c f thde, rChrr;n. xxix. dL) iJ evil~ Y.ea, and' e·{)e-ry~'~'twginatidn, every frame-, . of his thoughts, i 1 s 'fo. ~fhe. heart -i-_s _,ev_er · framing fomething; bqt never one fight thing : the frame . of thq1:1ghts, in -the heaFt of man, is exceeding various; yet a·re 'they IWVel cafi into a rig-ht- frame But is· there: .not, at lea{l-, a mixture ·of good in ·theill I No, th~y' ar_e. ·cnl y evil, ther-e is nothing in them true! y goo_d a.nd ~ocep'- 1 -table to ~od : 'n;or-dan any be fo that comes out· of that for ge: where ' notrthe Spirit of God, but the f?t·ince ofthe .poq_ver of the air WfJrketh, · Eph. ii. 2.'· \Vhatever _<;~apge's· may be found in the_,m, are only from evil tO evil -: for th'e imag ination of_ the hea-r.t, or frame of though~s in natunil Jinen, is evd· contini.\alfy, or every da-y: :From the t1rfl:· da-,y to · the !aft day· in this flate, they a're i!1 midnight: da rknefs, there is not a g'!immering of 11i1e light of holi· nefs in thetn·; not one holy tho~ght can ever be produced ·by the unholy hear.t. 0 what a:.vile heart· is this ! 0 what a conupt nature is this! the tree that always brings forth fxuit>
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