:c. RE it is in 1~hom ou~ Nature,· ~l;icl.J 'vm. J.eba(ed as low as H.;il by Apoftafy from God, u exalied above the 'vhoTe Creation. Our Na'tU¥e in the Origipal Cpnftitutio~ , of it , !n the perfons qf ~ur jjr(f Parents, 'Jl)as ~rqwn~d Wtth Honour and. Dtg• ·~ity. The ltriag~ · of God whe~ein irwa.r mad?, and the ·Dom,inion over the lower l.f'brld where'2vith it 'Jvas. ·intru.fted , m~de it th? Seat of excellency~ of Beauty and of Glory. ·But of the~ all it _wa.r at once devefled and maae naked by firJ, and laid grovelling in the Du.ft frof}'J 7p.,hence it ?Vat taken,. . Di1ft thou art , and to dull: thou fhalt. return; ~J!at · its ,-;righteous Doom. .An_d all · ~t.s internal facultieJ' 'Jvere i1JvfZded by diformed Lufts; every thing that might 'l'fender the 7,vhole -gnlike unto God, whofe Imag~ # had loft. Hence # became the contemp,t of .Angels , the ..Dominion of Satan, ,vho being the enemy of the whole Creation, never 'had llPJ thing vr place t? rtign in, bat t;be debafed nature of man. No(hi;z~e; WO! nO'f more vile and bafe, ~tJ Glory 1»a.s utterly departed. It ha.,d bath loft its pecu,liar nearnefs unto (]od, whicq WO! it" Honour, and '-1-:11:0 fallen into the gr~ateft Di2 {tance from him of all Creatures, the Dcvjls only excepted , which -wm its Ignominy 4.n.d Shame·. .And in this ftate, as l!nto any _thing in it felj; # ' was left to perijh eterna,lly. . . IN thit Condition, Loft, Poor, Bafe, ye~t Curf ed , the Lord Chr~ff the· Son of qod found our Natu_re, .Arrd hereon in. . infinite Candefcention ff_nd Compaf/icn fanElifying a. portion of it u~to . . ~~~
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