The Godly Man's Picture

1 They are in a state of death, Eph. 2. 1. dead in ^*Trespasses: dead they must needs be, who are cut off from Christ, the principle of life; for as the body without the soul is dead, so is the soul without Christ. This spiritual death is visible in the effect, it bereaves men of their senses: sinners have no sense of God in them, Ephe. 4. 19. who being without feeling: all their moral endowments, are but strewing flowers upon a dead corpse; and what is hell, but a sepulchre to bury the dead in.

1. *Manet hoc porisma, unionē anim e nostrae cum Christo, veram esse & unicā ejus vitam, ac proinde extra Christū nos esse penitus mortuos, quia regnat in nobis pecca•ū mortis material Calvin.Manet hoc porisma, unionē anim e nostrae cum Christo, veram esse & unicā ejus vitam, ac proinde extra Christū nos esse penitus mortuos, quia regnat in nobis pecca•ū mortis materia• Calvin.

2 Their offerings are polluted; not only the^* Ploughing, but the praying of the wicked is sin, Prov. 15. 8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: If the water be foul in the well, it cannot be clean in the bucket; if the heart be full of sin, the duties cannot be pure: In what a strait is every ungodly person, if he doth not come to the Ordinance, he is a contemner of it, if he ⟨p. 276⟩