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C.XV.
The
fallacious
Ground
of
this Argument
of
M. G's.
326 finne,
and purfues
it
in
the
ftreames
of
it into the
dead
fea, whereinto
it
falls;
All
finne
whatever,
is
from
temptation,
that
which
tempts
to
finne
is
the
caufe
of it, and that
which
tempts
to
all
finne
is
the
caufe
of
all finne; This
Fountaine
offinne
is
here
Difovered,
the
principle, proper,
criminall
caufe
of
finne,in
the
beginning
of
the
14..verfe.
The
Adverfative
but,is
exclufive
of
any
other
faulty
caufe
of
finne,
that
fhould principally
fall
un4e
on,
efpecially
of
God,
of
whom mention
was
made immediately
now
this
is
affirmed
to
be every mans tuft:
The
generali
way àüd`
aea'rtes
that
this Originall
of
all finne
ufeth
for
the
produétion
of
it
is
allo
difcovered,
and
that
is
Temptation:
every
mans owne
lug
tempts
him;
The
progreffe
alfo
.
it
makes in carrying
on
of
fin
whereunto it tempts
is
farther defcribed
in
the
feverallparts
& degrees
of
it. I.
it
drawer
away
and intices,&
the
perfons
to-
wards whom
it
exerts
this
efficacy,
are
drawne
awayor
inticed. .2
It
con-
ceives, Luft
conceives,
the
fubjeet being
prepared,
anfwering its
drawing
away
and inticing,
without more
adoe,
it
conceives
finne,
and
then it
brings it
forth
into
A
&ion;
that
is,
either
into open' perpetration,
or
deliberate determina-
tion
of
its accomplifhment, and then
it
finißheth
finne,
or
comes
up
to
the
whole worke
that
finne
tends
to: Whereunto
is
fubjoyned the
difinall end
and
iffue
ofthis
progreffe
offinne
which
is
Deaths
Eternall
Death
is
in
the
wombe
of
finifhed
finne and
will
be brought forth by
it.
This
being
theprogreffe
of
fin
from
the
firftRife which.is
Luf,to
the
Taft
end
which
is
Death
the
way and
path that the belt and
inoft refined Unregene-
rate
men in
theworld do never throughly
forfaite,
though
they
may fome-
times ftep
out
of
it, or
be ftopt
in
it,
-a
way wherein who ever walkes
to the
end,
may
be lure to
find
the
end.
I
(hall confider
the
feverall particulars
laid
downe, and
Phew
in
them
all
at
leaft
the
inoft
materiall, the
difference
that
is
betweene
Believers
& Unbelievers,whileft
they do
walke
or
may walke
in this
path,
and then manifeft where, and when all
Saints
breake out
ofit
forever;
fo
that
they come
not
to
the
dole
thereof; and therein
(hall
give
a
full
Anfwer
unto the
whole ftrength and
defigne
of
theArgument
in
hand,
which confifteth
as was
faid in
a
comparifon
tnftituted between
/the
fins
and
demerits
of
Believers,
and Unbelievers.
4.
4
r.
TheFountaine,principle& caufe
of
all
fin
whatever
in all perlons
whatever
is
Luft,every ones
owne
Luft
is
the
caufe
of
his
owne
fan;
This
is
the mother,
wombe,
&
fames
of
fin,
which
Paul (ayes
he had
not
been acquainted withall
but
by
the
Law,Rom.7,7Nay
I
had not
knowne
fin
but
by
the
Lam,for
I
had
not,
knowne
Lull
except
the Law
had
faid
thou (halt not Covet;
That
which
in
the en-
trance he
calls
fin
indefinitely,in the
dole
he particularly termesLuflias being
.
the
hidden
ferret
caufe
of
all
finne,
and
which once difcovered fwallowes up
the
thoughts
ofall other
fin,
it being altogether
in
vaine
to
deale
with
them,
or to
fet
a
mans
felfe
in oppofition
to them,
whilft this
finfull
wombe
of
them
is alive and
prevalent;
this
is
that
which we call
Originall
finne,
as
tò that part
of it
which
confifts in
the
univerfall alienation
of
our hearts
from God, and
unconquerable, habituall, naturali inclination
of
them
toitvery
thing that
is
evill',
for
this
finne
workes
in
us
all
manner
of
concupiieence
Rom.
y.
8.
This I
fay
is
the
wombe,
caufe,
and
principle
of
finne,
both
in
Believers
and
Vnbe
lievers;
The
Roote
on which
the
bitter
fruit
of it
doth
grow where
ever it
is
no
man ever
finnes
but
'tis
from
his
owne luft.
-And
in
this
there
is
an
agree-
ment between the
finnes
of
Believers;
and
others,
they are
all from
the
lame
Fountaine,
yet
not
fuch
an agreement
but
that there
is
a difference
herein alto;
for
the
clearing
whereofobferve.
0.
5
Firft
that
by nature this
Lail,
which
is
the
principle
of
finne,
is
feated in
all
the
facultyes
of
the
Soule, receiving
divers.
,Appellations
according to the
variety