Twenty sermons preached at Oxford before His Majesty, and elsewhere

2. What that ill news is, which he delivers of them. We begin with the first.

1. Who they are of whom this is spoken: and that is (you) You hath he quickened who were dead: and (ye) (in the words following) that in times past walked after the course of the world: and in the third verse more particularly: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past. He speaks now in the first person, as before in the second, so that the subject is we all and ye all. Not a man in this Congregation, but is or was as bad as the holy Ghost here makes him. But

1. Who they are of whom this is spoken: and that is (you) You hath he quickned who were dead: and (ye) (in the words following) that in times past walked after the course of the world: and in the third verse more particularly: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past. He speaks now in the first person, as before in the second, so that the subject is we all and ye all. Not a man in this Congregation, but is or was as bad as the holy Ghost here makes him. But

2. To come to that, which is delivered of him: he is one not quickened, dead in sins: no better then nature made him, that corrupt nature which he hath from Adam, till he is thus spiritually enlivened.

2. To come to that, which is delivered of him: he is one not quickned, dead in sins: no better then nature made him, that corrupt nature which he hath from Adam, till he is thus spiritually enlivened.