z a 1 r .: .tiul1r-ege_ 6f iSinne. luau I fpeakandgive warning that they may heare,bchold their eare íe circunicifed and they cannot bearkn, Ier. 6. t O. our whole man unable to obey, the c.Yrnall minde is not fubjetl to the Law of God, neither indeed can bee, Rom. 8.7. The Reafons hereof are thefe. Fir1l, Our ssniverfall both naturall and perfonall impurity, wee are by nature all fleth,cbildren of the old Adam, ?ohn 3.6. Children of Gods wrath, Ephef 2.3. and to long iris impciffible wee fhould doe any thing to pleafe God, for they that are in the fleGi cannot plea(e God,Rom. 8.8. a man muff riff be renewed in his mind, before he can to much as make proofe of what will be acceptable unto God Rom. 12.2. This naturali impurity in our perfons is the ground of Al im- purity in nur works, for unto the uncleane ervery thing is uncleane, Tit. t . t 5 . and all the fruit of an evil! Tree is evil! fruit, Mat.7.i8. And S: Paul gives the realm of it, Becaufe our fruit should bee fruit unto God, Rom; 7, 4, and fruit unto holineffe,Rom.6.2 2. Whereas hefe works of naturali men doe neither begin in God,. nor looke to- wards him, nor tend unto him, God is neither the prin- ciple, nor the object, nor the end of them. Secondly, Our natural! enmity, the bet' performance of wicked men is but 9eevv dh im' the Gift of an en :nay, and the facrifice of fooles. It proceedeth.not from love which is the Bond of perfeSion, that which keepcth all -other requifite ingredients of a good worke together, Col. 3.4, which is the fulfilling of the Law, `Z,orn.i 3.3. and the principle of Ooedience, and all willing fervice And conformity to God, Gal. 5. F. Iohn 14.15. and ever proceedeth from the fpirit of Chriif, Ca1.5.22. for by na- ture we are enemies, Rom. 5 .10 Thirdly, Our naturali infidelity for the fate of fin is an cuate of unheliefe,The !pint thall convince the world of fin, becaufe they beleeve not, loh.t6.9. Now infide- 1 lity Both utterly difable men to pleafeGdd, without faith
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