That lVIan's Natur.e State u~ / I man was made·, and the image after which he is begotten, are oppofed. Man was made in the likenef5 of God; that is,, a holy and righteous God made a holy and righteous .creature; but fallen ~4tlam begt~. t a fon, not in the liknefs .of God, but in his own likeoefs; that is, Corrupt Gnful ~dam begat a corrupt finful foo. For as the image of God bore ri_ghteo.ufnefs and)mmortality in it, as was cleared .bef-ore, fo this image of fallen Adam bore corruption and · death ~nit, 1 Cor, xv. 49· 50. compare ver. 2 :2. Mofe.r, in tht;lt 6fth chapter of Gtr;jis, being to give us the lirfr bill of morta~ity, that .CtVeF was in t1le world, ufhers it in with thi$, that dying Adam begat mor.ht!s. Having finned, he ,becam.e mortal, according to the thr'eatoiog; and fo he begat ,a fon, in hi's .own likenefs; GofuJ,, and ·therefore mo'rtal ': ,thus fin and death paffed on alL Doubtlefs, h~ · begot both C,afn and Ahr:l in his own iikenef3 as wel.l as Seth. But it is not recoided of A bel; becaufe he left n3 i-:Hue 'behind him, and his faiiing rhe firfl fa.crifice tp death in-the world, w~s a f~1tficient document of it: n.ot of Cain, :to whom it might have been thought pe,cufiar, beeaufe of his monfl:rous wickedn.efs; and bdldes, all his poiterity was drowned in· the flood: but it is recorded of Seth, be-.. pufe he was the . fa~her of the holy f~ed; and from him all mankind (lnce the flood has defcended, and fallen Adam's own 1ikenef~ with them. · · : Secondly, lt app,ears from that fcripture text, Job :xiv. 4• P(,So can bring a clean thi?;g out ifan unclean? Not on~. Our firfl par.eots were unclean, how .theo can we be dean? How ~ould our immeqiate pa1:ents bedean? Or, ' how /hall our children be fo? Thepncleannefs here ain1edat is a £nful.uncleanncf.c; ;. for it is fuch as makes man's days full ~ pf trouble: · and it is natural, being .deri.ved from unclean parents; lvlan js born eof a woman, ver. I. Andhow can , he be dean that is born of 4 wom(Jn? Job xxv . 4· An om– nipotent God , whofe power is not here ch.allenged, could bring a cle4n thing out of aq unclean; ana did fo, in the pfe of the man Chrifr: but no other can. Every perfon . that is born according to the courfe of rF.ture, is horn Qnft ~lean. lf the root be corrupt,. fo omH th~ branches be. ~either is the mattermehded, thongh tne parents be fanc– ~iff~d on~~~~ fgr they ar\eput holy i·npart~ apd tp~t by .grace, • • • • • • , c ·~ pot . 'r
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