Reynolds - Houston-Packer Collection BX5133.R485 T47 1642

L tkàm. ry.a4. iCçi.iz m LúV.24.zs- n Róm.7 ..,tq,. ÌÜ4.4 24 .. o 1"kb.4, t a. p PfaL 119 96. y Ltak, ,i o.:. Lux tiam' ori- ines delïbîo ran z con 'Fsp ccri!z?s & o-"' luntätes Minus pant Ja- e? a cónderrnat. "Fermi'. de pu- rlrcit.c.6. Pighius con- t QÚelfl,goto. de nain; a & gratia,l. 1. C. 3. Andrad,ortlo- dox.éxp!ic p.i17 Perdr.in Ge !.7. 5. de slat. !n- wcent. ili fr. dé excel.4.q 4 num.164. et: gratia c.5.Cc+rvin conti Mono. C.ó 447,I. rjuam f'n.' e2riar/J hoc fundamento rcjecit Staple- tonus ne Deus Authorpeccati llama ur,de ßìfic. l. a. C. 7. & Jöh.D;ied'y ?Rirrctica;°r r, é i( . - .. j'b, fià, fulnee: ,a &me. 1 thong and bitter complaint 1 as Saint Paid loth tillhis ru asnderf a0aing, bee by Chrift, opened to conceive the n fpiritualnefe, ' penetration,and P compafe,of that holy: Law, which tneaf ureth the 9 very botome of every a &ci - on,. and cotídernne h atwell the r originals as '-.he as of finne. And hence it is that (many men pleade for this finne3as OilIy an evil! of nature rather troublefome than f ft:il. That cogcupifcence was not contrated by nature de navo in tC ;e fall.,, but that it is annexed to nature by the Law of Creation; that it belongeth to the'conftitution and conAtion of a fenfttive Creature, and that the bri- dle of original! an ' frspernatkrall íirhteouf, fe being re- mov'd, the rebellion pf the fle(lily againtt the fpirituall, th it is,as tl eie,men Inota ignorantly affirme, of the fenfu all agai; it the reaf nable part which was by that before tùfpen itd, dià difcover it felfe. It will not be-. .therefore amifle to open unto you what it is to be in the /late ofon inaQ finne, and what evils they are which the C'omman. dement Both fo difcover in that finne, as thereby to make a man feele the burden of his owne nature,finell the finke and french of his owne bofome, and fo (as the Prophet fpeakes) abhorre himfelfe , and never open his mouth a- ny more, either proudly to juftifie himfelfe,or foolithly to charge God but to admire and adore that mercy which is placed to fave, and that power which is able to cure fo leprous and u.icleane a thing. Fiat, confider the univerfalaty of this finne, and that manifold. Vniverfalitie of Times r from Adam to c 2Wo. fes,even when the Law of Creation was much defaced, and they that finned, did not finne after the fimilitudt òf vfdam, agzintt the cleare revelation of Gods pure and holy will. For that I take to be the meartingof the Apo - ftle in thofe words,V ntill the Law finne was in the world, but finne is not imputed where there is no Law. Though the Law feemed quite extinòt betweene e4dam and itit.degatia & 4eirbitrio. t Rona. 5.13.14.20.21. is Rom. 2.1Z. 4 Mofes

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