The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

1. Original Sin hath a double respect, Private and Positive; and both belong to the Nature o• it.

1. Original Sin hath a double respect, Privat• and Positive; and both belong to the Nature o• it.

1. Privative; Man in his Natural state is void of Original Righteousness. There was a Moral rec• tude put into the Nature of man at first, Eccle. 7. 29 This is that which is most directly intended, by the Image of God in which man was made, Gen. 1• 26: It consisted in those Graces of Sanctification by which man was fitted for Universal Perfect Obedience to the whole Will of God. Man b• the Fall hath lost this rectitude, and is Born in• the World without this Image; And this is a Sin• state, for the Law requires it in him, and, as h• was betrusted with it, expects it of him. Th• ⟨p. 191⟩•ant of it hath rendered him Impotent as to his Duty, which Impotency is put into the description •f the Sinful state of Fallen man, Rom. 3. 10, 11, 12. And the man cannot answer the Law so long as e is without it: and it is a Privation, for man once had the habit of it on him, and it was Connatural to him.