The First is taken from the Nature of the Will of1 man, which since the Fall, is wholly tainted, and totally infected with corruption, which universally overspreads the whole man; As he in another case, the whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint, the whole man wholly possessed with sin, no sound2 part: As Jobs contagion wherewith the Devil infected his Body and Natural man, he was all one botch from the crown of the head, to the sole of the foot: So in regard of the Spiritual man, the whole man is as it were a man of sin, called therefore the old man, Eph. 4. 22. As though a corrupt heart were made up of nothing else but Apostasies, backslidings, and departings from God, and swervings from his righteous Law, Whatsoever is born of the flesh, is flesh, 3that is sinful and sensual, and we are all of us altogether so born, and have nothing of the Spirit of Grace in us; so the Apostle Jude, verse 19. These are sensual, having not the spirit: The Sons of Adam are (all of us) partakers of his Image, and hence also called the Seed of the Serpent, Gen. 3. 15. that as each Creature and Plant answers the Seed whereof it is made, hath no more in it but that; so mens hearts ⟨p. 316⟩are only framed and constituted out of that corrupt […] whereby Satan carried aside our first Parents, Paul so professeth of himself, In me ([…] is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing, Rom. 7. 11. nothing that is spiritually, savingly, and […] good; and therefore in the old Law, our corrupt Nature is signified by the Leprosy, which overspread the whole man: The sin of Adam had in it this peculiar to it self more than any, nay, I may […] say more than all the sins that ever was committed, in that it was the Deordination of the whole Nature of man, and that against the whole Law of God. For Adam did not sin as a particular man (so as all the Sons of Adam do sin) but as a common stock, as one who was in the room of all, and had the Humane Nature as the common stock of all Man-kind; so that the Nature of Man, as one would say Humanity in Adam, as it was under the Covenant of the Law, so it went wholly against the holy and righteous Law of God, and therefore the whole Nature of man broke when it made a breach upon the Law: As he that jostles his finger against a rock breaks that only, he that runs his hand unjoints that;
The First is taken from the Nature of the Will of1 man, which since the Fall, is wholly tainted, and totally infected with corruption, which universally overspreads the whol man; As he in another case, the whol head is sick, the whol heart is faint, the whol man wholly possessed with sin, no sound2 part: As Jobs contagion wherewith the Devil infected his Body and Natural man, he was all one botch from the crown of the head, to the sole of the foot: So in regard of thr Spiritual man, the whol man is as it were a man of sin, called therefore the old man, Eph. 4. 22. As though a corrupt heart were made up of nothing else but Apostacies, backslidings, and departings from God, and swervings from his righteous Law, Whatsoever is born of the flesh, is flesh, 3that is sinful and sensual, and we are all of us altogether so born, and have nothing of the Spirit of Grace in us; so the Apostle Jude, verse 19. These are sensual, having not the spirit: The Sons of Adam are (all of us) partakers of his Image, and hence also called the Seed of the Serpent, Gen. 3. 15. that as each Creature and Plant answers the Seed whereof it is made, hath no more in it but that; so mens hearts ⟨p. 316⟩are only framed and constituted out of that corrupt 〈…〉 whereby Satan carried aside our first Parents, Paul so professeth of himself, In me (〈…〉 is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing, Rom. 7. 11. nothing that is spiritually, savingly, and 〈…〉 good; and therefore in the old Law, our corrupt Nature is signified by the Leprosie, which overspread the whol man: The sin of Adam had in it this peculiar to it self more than any, nay, I may 〈…〉 say more than all the sins that ever was committed, in that it was the Deordination of the whol Nature of man, and that against the whol Law of God. For Adam did not sin as a particular man (so as all the Sons of Adam do sin) but as a common stock, as one who was in the room of all, and had the Humane Nature as the common stock of all Man-kind; so that the Nature of Man, as one would say Humanity in Adam, as it was under the Covenant of the Law, so it went wholly against the holy and righteous Law of God, and therefore the whol Nature of man broke when it made a breach upon the Law: As he that justles his finger against a rock breaks that only, he that runs his hand unjoynts that;
- 1Reas. 1.
- 2Job, 2. 7.
- 3John, 3. 6.
