The /Infulnelle of Sinn:. things principally remarkeable : htf} it is an efface of moll extreme impotency and dilabiliry unto any good: Second- ly, of molt extreme enm+ty ag?inft the holines and wayes of God. F rrfl, its an et}a-e of impotency and Difahilicy to any good : `Pau1 in Ills pharilàicall condition thought him- :idle able to live without blame,`Phil.3.6. But when the commandement came he found all his former moralities to have bin but dung. Our naturall el }ate is without any f rength, R,am. 5.6. fo we.i It that it makes c be Law it fe fe xreake, Aem.8.3 . as unable to doe the works of a fpiritu- all, as a dead man of naturall life, for wee are by nature Dcads. n finne, Ethel 2.1. and held under by it, Rem.7,6. And this is a wofull aggravation of the ftate of finne, that a man lies in mifchiefe (E lohn .1 9.) as a carkafe in rottennefle and dishonour, without auy power to deliver himlèlfe.He that railed up Lazarus out of his grave,mufl by his owne voyce rape up us from tin, The dead fhall heare the voyce of the Sonne of man, and they that heare /ball live, leh. 5.2 5. All men are by nature fl rangers to the life ofGod,Eph.4,1 8. and Forreigners from his houi. hold, Eph.2.19. Able without him to doe N thing, no more than a branch is to heare any fruit,when it is cut off .from the fellowship of the root which should quicken it, John 15.4,5.7n me faith the Apoffle, that; s, in my fie h, there drnelleth no good thing, Rom;y. i.8. _a man is as ur - able to breake through the debt of the Law, or his fish - jeetion to death and bondage, as a heals to shake off his yoke, Acta5 . r o. or a dead man his funerali clothes, lob. s 1.44. In one word, fo great is this impotency which is in us by finne, that wee are not fufficient to thinke a good thing, 2 C'or, 3.5. not able to under Eland agood thing,nc r to comprehend the lightyvhen it Ihinesupon us, i C r, 2, I 4. lohn i .. ç . Our tongues unable to fpeake a good word, Horn can yee being evils Ipeakegood things,AlarA 12, 34. Our cares unable to heare a good word,Ta whom /hull 233
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