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AND
SPIRYT,
&C.
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animal natures,
eating
and
drinking, and luxury,
and
lusts
of
the
flesh,
are
the cares
of
most
unregenerate
men.
The lust
of
the
eye,
and the gaitics
of
life,
gold
and
silver, pomp and equipage,
a
fine house,
a
'gay
appearance
in
the
world, gaudy clothing
and glittering
ornaments
of
the
body,
great splendor
in
the
eyes
of
men
;
these
are the
idols,
the
gods
of
sinners
;
and they
are
the
temptations
of
the saints
too..
The
things
that
relate
to
the
flesh,
and
the
enjoyments
of
this
sensible
and present
life,
are the
objects
of sinful
appetites,
or
of
lawful
appetite
in
a
sinful degree
;
and therefore
sin
is
called
flesh.
Ildly.
Sin is
also
called
flesh,
because
it
is
communi-
cated and propagated
to us by
the
parents
of
our
flesh..
It
is
by
our
flesh
that
we
are
a
-kin to Adam, the first
great
sinner,
and
derive a
corrupted nature
from
him;
from this original
taint
we
derive iniquity, as
a polluted
.
stream
from
an unclean fountain
;
he
is
the
father
of a
sinful posterity.
Our
spirits indeed are formed immediately
by
.God,
and being united
to these bodies
that
come from
Adam
by the
laws
of
creation,
we
become
the children
of
Adam,
and
so
are partakers of
his
sinful
nature. How
this
is
done,
we may
learn
from
other
discourses
;
it
is
enough here
to
say,
that
irregular
humours,
and
mo-
tions,
and
ferments are
transferred and propagated
from the first man, even
from the
same blood
of
which
are
formed
all
the
nations
of
men
that
dwell
upon the
face
of
the
earth
;
Acts
xvii. 26,
These are transmitted
down to
us
the
wretched
posterity.
In
some
instances
this
is so
evident,
that
all men
see
and
believe
it.
How
often
does the haughty, the peevish, or the
choleric tem-
per of
the
parent,
appear
in the
son,
or
the daughter,-
beyond all
contradiction?
And
often, when
we
see
a
drunken or
a wanton
sinner,
we cry,
"
He
is,the
express
copy
of
his
father,
he borrows his vices as
well as his
.
features, and
seems
to
be his
perfect
image."
,
And
.
though
it
is
not
so
evident
in all men,
that
they
borrow
the
seeds
of iniquity
from
their
predecessors, yet there
is
proof
enough from the word
of God, that
we
are
conceived
in
sin,
and shapen
in
iniquity,
that
man
who
is
born
of
a
woman
is
neither
clean
nor
righteous. Who
can
bring
a
clean thing
out
of
an unclean?
It
is
impossi