83ó A P P E N D I X . 21. Man being at the beginning created according to the imageof God (which confifted efpecially in the wifdom of his mind, and the true holi- nefs of his free-will) had the covenant of the law ingrafted in his heart, whereby God did promife unto him everiafting life, upon condition that he performed entire and perfef obedience unto his commandments, ac- cording to that meafure of firength wherewith he was endued in his creation, and threatned death unto him if he did not perform the fame. Of thefall of man, original fin, and the (late of man before jufl/cation. 22. 1101 Y one man fin entered into the world, and death by fin, and fo death went over all men, for as much as all have finned. 23. Original fin ftandeth not in the imitation of Adam (as the Pelagi- ans dream) but is the fault and corruption of the nature of every pertòn that naturally is ingendered and propagated from Adam, whereby it cotn- eth to pats, that man is deprived of original righteoufnefs, and by nature is bent unto fin ; and therefore in every perfon born into the world it de- ferveth God's wrath and damnation. 24. This corruption of nature doth remain even in thofe that are re- generated, whereby the flefh always lufteth againft the fpirit, and cannot be made fubjeEt to the law of God. And howfoever, for Chrift's fake, there be no condemnation to fuch as are regenerate and do believe ; yet doth the apoftle acknowledge, that in itfelf this concupifcence hath the nature of fin. IX, 25. " The condition of man, after the fall of Adam is fach, that he " cannot turn and prepare himfelf, by his own natural ftrength and good " works, to faith, and calling upon God." Wherefore we have no pow- er to do good works, pleating and acceptable unto God, without the grace of God preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will. 26. Works done before the grace of Chrift, and the infpiration of his fpirit, are not pleatingunto God, for as much as they fpring not of faith in Jefus Chrift, neither do they make men meet to receive grace, or (as the fchool-authors fay) defèrve grace of congruity ; yea rather, for that they are not done in filch fort as God hath willed and commanded them to be done, we doubt not but they are finful. 27. All fins are not equal, but fogne far more heinous than others; yet the very leaft is of its own nature mortal, and without God's mercy maketh the offender liable unto everlafting damnation, 28. God
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