The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

4. A natural Man being estranged from God, who is Jehovah or Beingness, must needs be a very Nullity in spirituals. If a Creature be separate from the God of Nature, 'tis a Nullity in naturals; and if a rational Creature be separate from the God of Grace, he is a Nullity in spirituals. Sure, if he were any thing at all, he might speak or think, but he can do neither: As running a fountain of Words as his tongue is, he cannot say, Jesus is the Lord, 1 Cor. 12. 3. and as swarming a Hive of Thoughts as his Heart is, he cannot think any thing as of himself, 2 Cor. 3. 5. The great Apostle gives a double account of himself, an account ⟨p. 353⟩what he is in himself, I am nothing, saith he, 2 Cor. 12. 11. and an account what he is by Grace, by the grace of God I am what I am, 1 Cor. 15. 10. all his nothingness is in and of himself, and all his spiritual essence is in and of Grace. A mere Natural man is nothing in Spirituals, his eyes are on that which is not, Prov. 23. 5. his joy is in a thing of nought, Amos 6. 13. and all the false Gods in his heart are [Greek or Hebrew] nihilitates, nothingnesses, Psal. 96. 5. As they are Creatures in the World, they are Beings, but as they are Idols in his […], they are nothing, nothing to make a God of, and he, who makes them such, is like unto them, even nothing in Spirituals.

4. A natural Man being estranged from God, who is Jehovah or Beingness, must needs be a very Nullity in spirituals. If a Creature be separate from the God of Nature, 'tis a Nullity in naturals; and if a rational Creature be separate from the God of Grace, he is a Nullity in spirituals. Sure, if he were any thing at all, he might speak or think, but he can do neither: As running a fountain of Words as his tongue is, he cannot say, Jesus is the Lord,