The Sinfulne /e of 5inne. 125 ,111 the Sea with mire and dirt;and thereupon jufi,ifie Almigh.. tie God, when he loth charge him with all this, yea, if he. ílould condemne. him for it. Now we are to Phew two things. Pirfi, that a metre natura II light will never thus farre convince Man. Se -- condly, that the Spirit by the Commandement doth. Some things nature is fufficient to teach, God may Welt and found out in fome fenfe by thofe that ignorant y worfhip hire. Nature Both convince men that they are not fo good as they Thould bee, the Law is written in the hearts of thofe Rom .2.15.. that know nothing of the letter of it ; Idleneffe, beaftia- litie, lying, luxury the Cretian Poet could condeinne in Titus r. ry,13. his owne counercy -men ; Drinking of hcalths ad plenos calices, by meafure and confiraint, was condemned by the law of an Heathen Prince, . and that in his luxury: Long - haire condemned by thedidate of Nature and right rea- fon, and the reafon why-fo many men, and whole nati- ons notwithfianding ufe it, is given by Saint Hierome, uia á natura deciderunt, f cut multe slurs rebu3 comproba t4itronim. in i Cor.ti. 14. Pc Coron.mil. cap.'4. A&.17.13,17. Eller 1.8. 1 Cor.ii. 14. tiir. And indeed as Tertutlran faith of womenslon fT-naiit.,. that it is, Humilitatis fis,é farcinrá, the burden, ás i!,c, were, of their Humilitie, fo by the wárrantof natpropo+tion which Saint Paul allowes, T C6Y. T1, Y., I r. We may call mens long-haire Su,perbia fut fäfciartn, nothin húC ,a clog a of pride. Saint e'Á igltß rte hath written threc.1 'whole Chapters together againft this finfull cufióna ref nourifhing haire, which,heeTaithis.expreSfelÿág inDt the 'precept of the Apoftle whom to underflaud therwife than the very lettcr'founds, is towrefi the tranifefi words of theApofile unto a pernerfe count utc?ìon.Butto returne, thefe Remnants ofNature in the hearts of men are but like the blazes and glimmerings ofa candle in the focket,thcre is. much darkneffe mingled with them..Nattsre cannot throughly convince. i, Becaufe it (loth not carry a man to the Roote, eArddnss finne, concupifcence, and corrupted feeds of a flefhly b c opere mon, cap. nitimit. elj-e; tè contra Apos7o'i l re 1 ceptain, Manifefla ver. ba Aprffoli in perverfa.n c - torgaerefinten tiaAä.
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=