A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

Reas. 1. From the wonderful insufficiency of our natures to keep any Commandment of God without this, 2 Cor. 3.5. Matth. 12.34, 35. Rom. 3.12. we of our selves are altogether fruitless in the works of righteousness, till Christs love dwell in us, Ezek. 36.25. to 27. How come men to keep Gods Law but from the Spirit of God which dwells in them? Look on men in the state of Nature, and their fairest fruits are but the Vines of Sodom, and Grapes of Gomorrah, Deut. 32.32, 33. they seem as fair as any, but their clusters are bitter, and so the best fruits of all Natural men are bitter, our very Honey is like Gall, and Wormwood, and our best actions full of corruption and bitter, so that if a man find his Grapes savoury, his words, thoughts, and actions gracious and sweet, so that now he is fruitful in obedience, it is an evident sign we are in Christ, else we could not be enabled to any thing which is good.

Reas. 1. From the wonderful insufficiency of our natures to keep any Commandment of God without this, 2 Cor. 3.5. Matth. 12.34, 35. Rom. 3.12. we of our selves are altogether fruitlesse in the works of righteousnesse, till Christs love dwell in us, Ezek. 36.25. to 27. How come men to keep Gods Law but from the Spirit of God which dwels in them? Look on men in the state of Nature, and their fairest fruits are but the Vines of Sodom, and Grapes of Gomorrah, Deut. 32.32, 33. they seem as fair as any, but their clusters are bitter, and so the best fruits of all Natural men are bitter, our very Honey is like Gall, and Wormwood, and our best actions full of corruption and bitter, so that if a man finde his Grapes savoury, his words, thoughts, and actions gracious and sweet, so that now he is fruitful in obedience, it is an evident sign we are in Christ, else we could not be enabled to any thing which is good.