The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

Thirdly, and lastly, it is called total, in respect of both the parts of Righteousness, Piety, and Justice, which with all the powers of our soul and body, both by nature, and in all our actions, we do nothing else but continually transgress. Therefore PAUL, Rom 1. 18. pronounceth of all men, that the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven upon all impiety and injustice of men, as those that with-hold the truth (or those small sparks of light that God hath left them) in unrighteousness, meaning, that by reason thereof they rush forth unto all unrighteousness. And Ephes. 4. 24. he willeth our renewing to be in both these parts of Holiness and Justice, as being corrupt in both by nature.

Thirdly, and lastly, it is called totall, in respect of both the parts of Righteousnesse, Pietie, and Iustice, which with all the powers of our soule and bodie, both by nature, and in all our actions, wee doe nothing else but continually transgresse. Therefore PAVL, Rom 1. 18. pronounceth of all men, that the wrath of God is reuealed from Heauen vpon all impietie and iniustice of men, as those that with-hold the truth (or those small sparkes of light that God hath left them) in vnrighteousnesse, meaning, that by reason thereof they rush forth vnto all vnrighteousnesse. And Ephes. 4. 24. hee willeth our renewing to be in both these parts of Holinesse and Iustice, as being corrupt in both by nature.

All men by nature are thus alike sinful, neither doth face more answer unto face, then one mans corruption answereth to another: but the fruits of sin are in some more abundant: for as he that is sick of the Dropsy, the more he drinks, the more he may: so men, by long custom of sinning, come at the length to such an habit, that they are not afraid to lash forth openly, audaciously, and impudently into all evil; casting off all fear of God, and reverence of man, as he shameth not to profess of himself in the ⁱGospel, and so come to be Monsters and prodigious in all kind of wickedness. Of these the Apostle speaketh,