A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

Use 2. Information. It informeth us that we are all polluted by Nature, for we need to be purified ere we are Christ's People: Nay, it sticketh to us; we change our Skin, our outward Conversation, but no other Laver will wash our Hearts but Christ's Blood. If we had Eyes to see our natural Filth, we should loath our selves more than we do. We are all infected with Self-love and fleshly Natures; Tit. 3.3. For we our selves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers Lusts and Pleasures, living in Malice and Envy, hateful, and hating one another. But we are partial to our selves, we have no spiritual Eye-sight. Sin is of a defiling Nature. You abhor dirty nasty Creatures, all of us are polluted with Sin. God that is a Spirit hath other Affections, he doth not abhor a Creature because of his Sores, but because of his Sins. We judg by the Senses; Psal. 14.3. They are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy, there is none that doth good, no not one: So we are in the Eyes of God, who is a pure Spirit. Sin maketh us odious and loathsome to him: but we that have Bodies abominate things that are sensibly unclean.

Vse 2. Information. It informeth us that we are all polluted by Nature, for we need to be purified e're we are Christ's People: Nay, it sticketh to us; we change our Skin, our outward Conversation, but no other Laver will wash our Hearts but Christ's Blood. If we had Eyes to see our natural Filth, we should loath our selves more than we do. We are all infected with Self-love and fleshly Natures; Tit. 3.3. For we our selves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers Lusts and Pleasures, living in Malice and Envy, hateful, and hating one another. But we are partial to our selves, we have no spiritual Eye-sight. Sin is of a defiling Nature. You abhor dirty nasty Creatures, all of us are polluted with Sin. God that is a Spirit hath other Affections, he doth not abhor a Creature because of his Sores, but because of his Sins. We judg by the Senses; Psal. 14.3. They are all gone aside, they are altogether become filthy, there is none that doth good, no not one: So we are in the Eyes of God, who is a pure Spirit. Sin maketh us odious and loathsome to him: but we that have Bodies abominate things that are sensibly unclean.