An Expojition of the epiJUe ~::-:-----~ It is making a Trade of Sin: How do I prove that? Becaufe it is doing as the erm. · Devil cloth: And bow cloth he do ? For, faith he, the Devil Jinr.eth from the ~ begim1i11g. When a Man cloth n1>1ke a Trade and Courfe of !inning, as the De– vil doth, he it is that the Apoftle meaneth, when he fatth, He that doth Sin : Whofoever it bom of God, ( fatth he, veri. 9· ) doth not commit Sin ; he cloth not do Sin thus, he cloth not make a Trade of any Sin, it is impoffible he lhould. J, this (faith he, veri. Io.) the Chtldren of God are manifejl, and the Children of the Devil: Whofoever doth not Rtghteoufiteji, i< not of God, mither he that loveth Voferv. I. Obfcrv. 2. · 11ot hit Brother. For to do Rigbteoufnefs, it is to fet a Man's fclf to make a Trade of it ; asin r 'Pet. 3· I I. If thou wouldeft fie good dap, d 0 good, and cfLCJv eVIl: What ! do one good Achon ? No, but domg good there, is the fame word here in the Text, and is meant, making a Trade of it, fetting a Man's felf in a Courfc of Good : So, to do a Mar's Lulls, or to act a Man's Lulls or fulfil! them, (as we tranOate it) implieth Conll:ancy. ' 5· It implieth Univerfality; the meaning whereofis this, that •n unregenerate Man is never but a fulfilling fame Lull:.or other; he bath never but fame one Imp or other fucking of him, as I may fo exprefs it,. eithe~ Lulls of the Body, or of the Mind: For the Soul ofMan never can be tdle, tt ts hkethe Heavens, always moving; it is always :vanting,. and there mull: be Meal in t?e Mill,.it mull: grind fomething or other; tt IS nothmg but Lulls, and all the actiOns of It are nothing but to fatisfy thole Lulls, and fo he makes up his whole Life, (and a forrowful Life it is) in fatisfying firll: one Lull:, and then another Lull: ; he is always acting for them one way or other. So now you have the Nature of thefe Lulls opened. I iball make an Obfervation or two. The firll: Obfervation is this, That the whole Ma11, a11d aU the partt both of So 11 t and Body, they are corrupt. And it is a great Obfervation to hu.mble us, my Bre· rhreo. The Bady, and all the defires of tt ; the Mmd, theWdl, whatfoever is, there is almoll: no part, but there is fomething in the Text here, that holds forth the Corruption of it, either direttl~ or implicitly. .Here is, the Lttflt of the Flcjb, you fee, of the Bad)', the lenfiuve part ; here ts, the LujiJ of the Mind, .the reafoning part : here is alfo the Will, the Corruption of that; for he calletll Lull:,, ( becaufe they come to afrion) WiUJ of the Flejb, and of the Mind. Here is the U nderll:anding, in the word, .,lJl! Jlocv01Zv, for fo the word properly refer· reth to the Underll:anding. And here likewife are all the fenfitive Powers of a Man included, in the word [ Flejb, ] which belongeth to his Body in common to him with Beall:s. Therefore corrupt Nature in Scripture is called a Man; fo you have it in Ephcf4· 22. Put off the old Man, which i< corrupt, according·to .the·deceitjitl Lujlt: Why is it called a Man? Becaufe it is fpread over the whole . Man, and bath Members as large as a Man's Soul and Body bath. In Rom. 3· ro. he goes over all the Powers ofMan: IntheMitid, There i< 11one that underftandeth, 110 not o11e.: In the Will, No11e feek! after God : In all the other parts; The Throat if an open Sepulcher; under their Lipt i< Poyfon; their Feet are fwift to Jbed Blood: ltchi11g Eart, 2 Tim. 4· 3· Ha11dt full of Blood, Ifa. I. I6. Yea, if you will have it, The Tongue is a World of Evil, fo faith James: And in Ifa. 1. 6. From the Sole of the Foot, to the Crown of the Head, therei< no 011e whole part. That is the firll: Obfervation. The fecond is this: That dur jitperiollr Pari!, the Mind, and the WiU, hiiVe their Cormption, M well M the fenjitive part. It is a ll:range thing, that the Papi!ls lbould go and cut off at one blow half of a Man's Corruption; they would ·make the Underll:anding to be a kind of Virgin, the Will only to be as one that .is bound, if the Fetters were but off, he would go. My Brethren, this is a cer– ;rain Rule, that tljere is the.fame Subje~t of Priv~tion, a~d of the Habits. I fhall _explain my (elf to you: The_Eye, It ISthe fubject of Stg?t; the Eye therefore is the fubje4 of blindnefs, idight be gone. What parts mMan were .the S~b,jects of Holine!S.( The Underll:anding and the Will, it's certain: Therefore ~ ' ... * · when
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