Sermons preached

By this Principle they are inclined to that which is evil. This Principle also may be known, 1. By the manner how it was derived to us. 2. By its Tendency and Operations.

(1.) The manner how it was derived to us, from Adam in his Apostasy, and as fallen from his chief Good and last End. Joh. 3. 6. When Man fell from God, he fell to himself. The Temptation was, Ye shall be as Gods, Gen. 3. 5. He would set up Self as a God. And what was that Self which Man sought to idolize, but himself rather considered as a Body than as a Soul? And therefore when God sought to reduce Man, where lay the difficulty? that Text will inform you, Gen. 6. 3. My Spirit shall not always strive with Man, for that he is also Flesh; that is, sunk or lost in Flesh, altogether wedded to the Interests of the bodily Life.

(1.) The manner how it was derived to us, from Adam in his Apostacy, and as faln from his chief Good and last End. Ioh. 3. 6. When Man fell from God, he fell to himself. The Temptation was, Ye shall be as Gods, Gen. 3. 5. He would set up Self as a God. And what was that Self which Man sought to idolize, but himself rather considered as a Body than as a Soul? And therefore when God sought to reduce Man, where lay the difficulty? that Text will inform you, Gen. 6. 3. My Spirit shall not always strive with Man, for that he is also Flesh; that is, sunk or lost in Flesh, altogether wedded to the Interests of the bodily Life.