That Mim~J' Nature· State II. great in the earth. Behold the bitter fruits·ofthe conup– tjon, of our nc>ture, Hof.iv.2. By fwearing, and lying, and>' J.il!lng, tmdjlea!ing, an.d committint a-dutler_y,_they break,: out (ltke the breaki)1g fo:th of water) and 'blood touchetl~ · , blood. The-w.orld is fiJld with filthinefs~ aod-all mannerof lewdnefs, wickednefs, and prOfanity, ·Whence is this · deluge of fi:n on the earth, but from the breaking u-p·of the fountain-s of thegrea·tdeep; the heart of ~-an ;-out· if whiclr. p.roceed evil thougMJ, adulterieJ, fornicatiom, murders'!>. theftJ, co:uetoufnefi , wickfdneji, &c. Mark vii. 2 I· . 2.2: _Ye: will, it may be, thank God, with a· whole hea:r.t, that ye< are not like thefe other. men:·_and indeed y.e' have better reafon for it, tha·n 1 I fear., ye are awar-e of; for. a1~ in.– 'Water,fa..c·e a·nfwereth to.face, fo the hearrq( man.· f·o-mau;. Prov . xx-vii. 19. As looking into clear 'water, yt fee your t>Wn face i· fo looking into your. heart, ye ma'y fee other ··men's there: and looking into other men's·, in them ye: may fee your own. - So t-hat the moA: vile and profane: wretches that are-in the world fhould ' fe rve. y.ouJor a look.– iog~glafs; in _which you·ou.ght to difc-ero the corruption o£: , your own na~ure: ,and if you do fos ye w:ou.ld, with. a, 'h eart tru.ly touched, thankGod;, and not yourfeJv,es'; •in-· ' deed~ thllt ye' are nof·aJ·other men, in y_o~r liv.es, .feeing th~ coni.1ption of nature is ,the ·fame in you •as in.them:. Pourth():, Caft your ·eye upon~thefe terrible con¥ulliomt the world is thrown :into by the lufl:s of men• Lions make IJOt a prey of lions, nor wolves of wolves: but men · are~ turned wolves to·one anot her,.bitingand·devouring ·one· an• ether; Upon how flight occafions will ·men fheaih theil\ , fwords in one another-s bowels.,!. The-·· world is a wildernefS: . . where the clearefl: fire m~n can : carr.y about witli them~ will ~ not fright. away the wild heafls that inha-bit, it, (and: that becaufe they are men, and not brutes r but one·· way<' or other t-hey will be wounded. s.rnce Cain fhed the blood• of Ab't! the earth· has been tumed into a flaughter-houfe ;. and the chace has been continued Gnce Nim11od-began his· y hunting; . on .the earth,- as in the fea., the greater fHll ·de.• vouring the leffer. When we fee the world in fuch :a-fer-· ment, every one «abbing another with words -or f words,, we may conclude ther<:is an·evil fpiriudnong thet:n; Thefe: '··· v.iole.nt heats among_,.Adiun.'&,fo.ns,. fneak. the whole. bodf tO>
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