The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied

I. That besides the outward acts of sin, and inward lusts and breathings of sin, and the spiritual plagues with which God strikes men for sin, as blindness, hardness of heart, there is in every man living another sin, commonly called the sin of nature: (as in the Serpents, besides the spitting of poison, their nature is poisonous) which sin is generally believed and confessed, but felt by few. This is called in Scripture by the name of Flesh, Joh. 3. 3. The Law of the members, The old man. For as in men, there are actions, breathings, and the man himself; So here: Which sin of nature is the deordination of the whole man, or a corrupt bent and set of the whole man against God: And it expresseth it self in two particulars; 1. In a constant departing from God in every action, Civil and Moral: Like a man set out of his way, every step he goes is ou•; or like a Clock out of frame, every stroke is false, Psal. 58. 3. The wicked go astray from the very womb. 2. In a fierce, invincible, resisting and contradicting of God, whe• he hath overtaken the soul to draw it home, and turn it back, Rom. 8. 7. We account it a doleful thing for Christ to bid the soul depart at the last day, that woe is past upon all the sons of men by this sin now; only with this difference, 1. They are forced to depart then, men willingly depart now, and hasten away in every thing from God as fast as they can. 2. They depart into fire, these to broken Cisterns of creatures. I do 3. Believe they would not resist the Lord, if he should come to save them from their separation then from him, this makes nature resist him now.

I. That besides the outward acts of sin, and inward lusts and breathings of sin, and the spiritual plagues with which God strikes men for sin, as blindness, hardness of heart, there is in every man living another sin, commonly called the sin of nature: (as in the Serpents, besides the spitting of poyson, their nature is poisonous) which sin is generally beleeved and confessed, but felt by few. This is called in Scripture by the name of Flesh, Joh. 3. 3. The Law of the members, The old man. For as in men, there are actions, breathings, and the man himself; So here: Which sin of nature is the deordination of the whole man, or a corrupt bent and set of the whole man against God: And it expresseth it self in two particulars; 1. In a constant departing from God in every action, Civil and Moral: Like a man set out of his way, every step he goes is ou; or like a Clock out of frame, every stroke is false,