As the first Adam did depart from God, and in him 1all […] Posterity; so the second Adam, the Lord Christ, doth bring back all his again unto God the Father by the contrary way. In the departure of Adam and his Seed, this is plain to common apprehension, There was first an Aversion, or turning from God; then a Conversion, or turning of the soul to the Creature: this is the usual course, and the usual […], They have […] the Fountain of Living Waters, and digged to themselves, Pits that will hold no water, Jer. 2. 13. Adam attends not Gods Direction, and then he attends the delusion of the Enemy, contents not himself in what God had found, but finds out findings, therefore our Saviour brings back his contrary way, begins where Satan ends as it were, there must be an Aversion and turning from the Creature, before there can be a conversion unto God; he came from God to the Creature, he must return from the Creature to God: but […] aversion is first, that is, from his abusive cleaving to the Creature; for in truth, […] is nothing else but an […] affecting of these inferior things, Ambition is the inordinate affecting of praise, the airy applause of men; Covetousness an inordinate seeking and […] upon the world; Uncleanness, an unruly […] unreasonable pursuit of the delights of the Flesh; in a word, a perverted and exorbitant will inordinately following and pursuing the Creature, not from God, for God, but from a sinful disposition to self-ends; this is the frame of evil in the heart, the woof and web of wickedness lie, there. Now the Lord Jesus he comes, 1 John, 3. 8, 9 to destroy the works of the Devil; the Original is, to […], and unravel, undo, or take down […] work, as the word implies; and therefore he begins to pull ⟨p. 674⟩down his work where he ended it, viz. He first works an Aversion from sin, and the Creature sinfully affected, and then in Nature and Order there will be conversion to God. The Point of the Compass cannot stand North and South together; first it must stand from the South, before it stand North: The face of the soul cannot stand God-ward, and Sin-ward, and Creature-ward.2 This is the course of the Scripture, and the constant expression of it; To turn from Idols to the living God, 3from darkness to light, from Satan to God.
As the first Adam did depart from God, and in him 1all 〈…〉 Posterity; so the second Adam, the Lord Christ, doth bring back all his again unto God the Father by the contrary way. In the departure of Adam and his Seed, this is plain to common apprehension, There was first an Aversion, or turning from God; then a Conversion, or turning of the soul to the Creature: this is the usual course, and the usual 〈…〉, They have 〈…〉 the Fountain of Living Waters, and digged to themselves, Pits that will hold no water, Jer. 2. 13. Adam attends not Gods Direction, and then he attends the delusion of the Enemy, contents not himself in what God had found, but finds out findings, therefore our Savior brings back his contrary way, begins where Satan ends as it were, there must be an Aversion and turning from the Creature, before there can be a conversion unto God; he came from God to the Creature, he must return from the Creature to God: but 〈…〉 aversion is first, that is, from his abusive cleaving to the Creature; for in truth, 〈…〉 is nothing else but an 〈…〉 affecting of these inferior things, Ambition is the inordinate affecting of praise, the aiery applause of men; Covetousness an inordinate seeking and 〈…〉 upon the world; Uncleanness, an unruly 〈…〉 unreasonable pursuit of the delights of the Flesh; in a word, a perverted and exorbitant wil inordinately following and pursuing the Creature, not from God, for God, but from a sinful disposition to self-ends; this is the frame of evil in the heart, the woof and web of wickedness lie, there. Now the Lord Jesus he comes, 1 John, 3. 8, 9 to destroy the works of the Devil; the Original is, to 〈…〉, and unravel, undo, or take down 〈…〉 work, as the word implies; and therefore he begins to pull ⟨p. 674⟩down his work where he ended it, viz. He first works an Aversion from sin, and the Creature sinfully affected, and then in Nature and Order there wil be conversion to God. The Point of the Compass cannot stand North and South together; first it must stand from the South, before it stand North: The face of the soul cannot stand God-ward, and Sin-ward, and Creature-ward.
- 1Conclus. 1.
- 21 Thes. 1. 9.
- 3Acts. 26. 18.
