Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Secondly, we must note the opposition between the two estates of Saint Paul. In the first he was Alive, and that in two respects. A live in his performances, able as he conceived to perform the righteousness of the law without bla•e Phil. 3. 6. A live in his Presumptions, mispersuasions, self-justifications, conceits of righteousness, and salvation. Act. 26. 9. Phil. 3. 7. In the second estate Sin ⟨p. 121⟩revived, I found that that was but a sopor, a benumbedness, which was in my apprehension a death of sin: and I died, had experience of the falseness and miseries of my presumptions. The life of sin and the life of a sinner are like the balances of a pair of schools, when one goes up the other must fall down, when sin lives, the man must dye; man and sin are like M•entius his couples, they are never both alive together.

Secondly, wee must note the opposition betweene the two estates of Saint Paul. In the first he was Alive, and that in two respects. A live in his performances, able as he conceiv'd to performe the righteousnesse of the law without bla•e Phil. 3. 6. A live in his Presumptions, mispersuasions, selfe-justifications, conceits of righteousnesse, and salvation. Act. 26. 9. Phil. 3. 7. In the second estate Sinne ⟨p. 121⟩revived, I found that that was but a sopor, a benumdnesse, which was in my apprehension a death of sinne: and I died, had experience of the falsenesse and miseries of my presumptions. The life of sinne and the life of a sinner are like the ballances of a paire of scoles, when one goes up the other must fall downe, when sinne lives, the man must dye; man and sinne are like Mentius his couples, they are never both alive together.