40 That the Nature of man is full of SEIt.I d. and poftive. It is true, the want of fight to guide, is enough to caufe errorr, but the vigour of Naturels enough to make it pofrcive. Therefore Divines fay well, It is not onely compared to Darkneffe, which is a meere privation of light, but to f ckneffe, where is not onely want of health, but corrupt humours which are contrary to health. That is the fir ft thing to be confidered , even the corruption of Nature which is in you, which will exceedingly aggravate fine, as I have (hewed heretofore, and (hall more largely hereafter have occafion to fpeak of it.There_ fore I will fay no more of it now, but fo much fhall' ferve for the generali originall corruption that is in us. late corrupti- And note we wil come to the particular faculties, on of the facul and will Phew how they are corrupted, that we may ties. know our felves, and the truth of this point, which I am to prove, that the nature of man is full of all im- piety.and wickedneffe. t The Vnder- And flrff, we will begin with the Vnderflanding banding or minde of a man. 1. The Vani In this, marke firft the Yanitieof it, How ready it tie of it. is to attend to trifles; which was the difpofition that the Apoftle found fault with in his Epiftle to Thno- thie and others, That they gave themfilves to Fables, and Genealogies, and this is in every man-by nature. How full ofqueflions were the Schoole-men And fó every man is ready to turne Religion into quelli. ons of curiofities, which fhewes a fcknefì'e in the un- derlanding,it.fets a man on worke to finde out what is,propounded to it, that he may not lofe his labour. And thence come fo many errors, this is -the vanity of
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