243 ZJnavlen,j o,` smog to convert hïmrelfe; vt:.s 11,0111 y hac ieaçe The bran ,h ca mot live without the root,_nor the tao 'rice f .'e a f.nrttu.,11Lf wi.hout Chrift. Man is wholly difibled * auto this work., having no feed principle grace re- 1.N.) pnnci. nor p ofpie or grIce. maining in him, being as fully under the dotninionoflino; ictr. as the dead are wader the dommionofdeath, atas great a di- Rsm.7.ts; Rance from thelifeofgrace asthey who have been long dead, . col. z,iz. and divers dayes, likeLaZvrxe,in the grave,are fromthe life of nature. z.vrter blind 2. Being f)blinded .that they cannot difcerne the things Luke ß nefke. 41. whichbelong to their fpirituall vivification, from the thingsl z, which,tend to their deff'ruftion, the wayes of' death are ï wayesof life in their apprehen(ion, as the Affyrians finitten< withblindncff thought the way leading to. Sanznri4tobe the_ way leading to if f ria. Thus they repute the way which lea- deth unto death tobe the way fading unto life, they call. evill good, andgoodevil'. ;, Declination 3.. They decline the 'manes of theirfpirituall quickning, of manes. they (top their eares,ágainft the voice which fhould awaken. Yfál.f andenliven them,they (hut theireyes againft the light which fhould illuminate them. 4 Enmity q.. They are full of enmity againft the mi;niftery which agaínfi the would convert them,, they makewarre a aint theminiftery miniftery. íorn.s,y of the word, as Saul ágainfk David : This troubles them as John 3.19. theStar troubled Herod, the Miniftcris .their enemybecaufe Q i 4.16. he tels them the truth. s.Sweeneife 5. Sinne is a fweet dialto their palate, ,they are in fatiable. of Ga in the commiffion of it, their foulesare.wedded toit, they lob 2.04Z. have made a Covenant with it, theyboaft andglory in. it: 6.Grace and & The life-of grace andholineffe isdifhononrable and con- hoi,nef%di. temptiblc in their eye ; Nothing with them is beautifuli and ft-)unourable in amiable, excellent and honourable, but that which is either their eye, for thematter or firthecircuinances finfvail : And therefore 3ó6'1'r4° when thedead can raife themtèlves out of their graves, when the (tones can turne themfelves into flefh, thethornes into vines, when the Leopard can change his (pots, and the Rlackamoore his skinne, then may man byhis.owne power, ¡without the mighty workeof thrift, raife hiinfelfe to a:new l life, turne his hard into atender heart, hisbacren.intoa..frwt- full
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