The Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of Indwelling Sin

For instance; It is common to man with other creatures, to take care for the nourishing of his children, of the young helpless ones that receive their being by him. There is implanted in him, in the principles of his nature concreated with them, a love and care for them; so is it with other living creatures. Now let other creatures answer this instinct & inclination, and be not hardened against them like the foolish Ostrich, unto whom God hath not imparted this natural wisdom, Job 59. 16, 17. they fully answer the Law of their Creation. With Man it is not so; it is not enough for him to ⟨p. 268⟩answer the instinct and secret impulse and inclination of his nature and kind, as in the nourishing of his children; but he must do it also in subjection to God, and obey him therein, and doing it unto his glory; the Law of Moral Obedience passing over all his whole being & all his operations; but in these things lie, as it were, the whole of a man, namely in the things which are implanted in his nature as a creature, common to him with all other living creatures, seconded by the Command or Will of God, as he is a creature capable of yielding moral obedience, and doing all things for his glory.

For instance; It is common to man with other creatures, to take care for the nourishing of his children, of the young helpless ones that receive their being by him. There is implanted in him, in the principles of his nature concreated with them, a love and care for them; so is it with other living creatures. Now let other creatures answer this instinct & inclination, and be not hardned against them like the foolish Ostrich, unto whom God hath not imparted this natural wisdom, Job 59. 16, 17. they fully answer the Law of their Creation. With Man it is not so; it is not enough for him to ⟨p. 268⟩answer the instinct and secret impulse and inclination of his nature and kind, as in the nourishing of his children; but he must do it also in subjection to God, and obey him therein, and doing it unto his glory; the Law of Moral Obedience passing over all his whole being & all his operations; but in these things lie, as it were, the whole of a man, namely in the things which are implanted in his nature as a creature, common to him with all other living creatures, seconded by the Command or Will of God, as he is a creature capable of yielding moral obedience, and doing all things for his glory.