Head ' r . h l~rrup.'t~d, pr()VCfi. 29 -quickly per-ceiYe fuch fruits, as difcover'thisroo~ ef bitter· Befs. .I fnall propofe a, few things, that may fer:ve ~q convince us in this point·. · · .. F1rfl~ \Vho fees not a.tlood :of miferies overflowing t~ world·? and whither can a man go, where he !hall not dip his.foot~ if he go not · O'V'er head and ears in it? Every: one at home and ahr9ad, in City and<eounuy, in palaces and ~ottages, i·s groaning. under fome one tbi~g or other, un· grateful to him; Some are op.prdfect \fit~ poverty, fome chafiene<i:w1th Gcknefs and pain,_ fo~e are lamenting their Jofles ·; qone wan.ts a crofs·ofoue fort or other. No man's r{)ndition is fo.foft; but there· is fome thorn of uneafinefs in iL -A.'nd at'Ieog.~b death, the wages of fin; comes, aftc:r thefe . its ha-rbingers, and f\veeps all ·away·. Now, w'hat butfili. ha:,s opened the fluice? · There is not ·~ complaint nor figh .. he'a1•j in the·world, nora tear that falls from your eye·, but it is an· evidence that man is ·fallen as ·a ·fiar ftom heaven; for God iijlributeth forrorwJ in hiJ a.ngcr; Jpb xxi. I 7. This a· plain · proofof the corruptionof nature~ ·forafmu.ch as thofe tbat · h!ve no~ yet actually finned, have their {hare of fp:efe for- · rows; yen.; and dra\v their firfl: breath in the world weep· ' ing; -as 1ftb'ey knew-this worl'd, atfi'rfi fight, to beaBflchim~< the pUce·of \V.eepers. 'I~her e are graves ofthe ffl!alleft, as : wev as of the· J'argefr fize, in the church'-yard ·; and there . a-re·neverwanting fon1e in theworld, who, like R(u:hel, are · "1JJ.Ctping fir. .t heir children , hecattje theyare nq.f,' M'at.ii. 18. Suondfy; ubfe;ve hc:rw ear ly . this corruption of 1!afur-e r b'egins to appear in young dnes. Solomon<obferves, tAat e-· ven a 'cMid ·is kilocu.m by hh doings, Prov.xx; IT· It ·may · foon be difcerned, what w1y th~ biafs of the heart lies• . Do l!onhe ch~fdren of fallen-Adam, before:tb-ey can go a~ , ]one, foi16w,_the1r··father's footHeps? What ·a va!l d<=al of: little pride, ambition, curiofity, vanity, wilfu~ n efs, and ·a- · · verfenefi · to good · app,ears in them? : And when they ' ~reep out of their infancy, there is a necefliry' of ufing th~ rod of c.vrreffion to drh)(J a"l.uay the foolijhnefi that'·s brmnd– in their heart; Proy. xxii. 1 S. which ~eW$, \h.at if grace prevail not, the child· will ~e as Ifo.rJJail, a rwi/d afi man> as>rhe ·word is, Gen. ~vi: I 2 . .: · · Thirdly, Take a view of the manifold gro.f'l out break .. · in~s ; oJ Ma ig the w~rld, The 'Wickulr..efl of mnn iJ p:t ,
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