s·~· The Corrt:ptiim of th: lVi/1. State IL ' a11d off-ruts in that weighty mnter, whereoy mu-ch work · is laid up for~ death-bed by fome; while others are ruined by a legal walk, and unacquaiotednefs with the life of faith, and the making ufe. of Chri!l: for fanchfication; all flow· ing fr0m the perfuafion of fufficient natural abilitit6, Soagreeable is it to corrupt nature. · · Evid. 2, Let thofe, who, . by the power of the fpirit of bonJage, .having had the law laid out before them~ in its fpi– ritualiry, for their conviction, fpeak and ttll if th-ey found tbemfelves able to incline their hearts towards' it, in that c.afe; nay, !f the more that light fhone into thei 'rfouls, they did Pot find their hearts more. and mo1e un .1ble to compfy– with it. , Then~ are fome who have be.en brought, unto the· place of the breaking forth, who are yet in the de-vil's camp, that fr~nl'their experience can tell, light let inro the mind cannot give.life to the will, to enable it to comply- there· wi-th; and could give their teHimony here, if they would. 1l3ut take Paul's tef!imooy concerning it, who, in his uncon• vened fiate, was far from believing his utter inability for' good '; but leuned it by experience, , Rom. v·ii. 9· ro, ll, l-'3. I own, . the natural man may l1ave a k.in-d of love to the law: but here lies the firefs ·olthe matter, he l-ocks en the holy law ,in a carnal drefs ~ and fo, white he hngs a– €:reature of his own fancy, he thinks he ha.s the law, but in very deed he is without the law: . for ilS' yet ))e fees it not' in its fpiriruality: if he did, he would find it.the very re· verfe of his own nature, a-nd what his will could not fall''. io with, till changed by the powet of grace. Sec-ondly, There is in the ,uorenewed will an averfenefs to · good. Sin is the natmal man's element; he is a,s 1oth to part with it as the 1ifhes are t-o come out of the water ioro dry land. He not,only cannot come to Chrifi, -but he will net come, Johlz v 40. He is pol)uted, :md hates to be ~v::i1•.en; Jer. xiii. ?.7. lflilt thou not be made clean? !1/henjhall ii• ·. once he? He is fick, but utterly avede to the remedy: be l Jve his difeafe fo, that he lothes the PhyGoian. He is a· c2.ptive, a prifceer, and a fhve; .but-he loves his ·ccnq~eror, his j2ilor and mafier: he Is fond of hi~ fetter~, pri fon and drudgery ; and has no liking to illS hber~y. For evidence vf tllis avG:..rfcnefs .,to good in the wil( of man, l tnall in- ' Crance . in fame 1articulars . Evidenc(! ·
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