The truly blessed man

2. Hence see the miserable change which the fall doth brought upon man. When God made him at first, he was perfect in understanding, he knew ⟨p. 476⟩how to put difference between good and bad, and choose that which would pr•move the Glory of God & his own eternal felicity: and all his senses were in a due subordination, and offered him no delusion: but since his Apostasy he hath crazed his understanding, and fallen in a spiritual account, a species below himself. God therefore would have all men in their natural state to know that they are beasts, Eccl. 3.18. And how should this thought help to abase us, and make us bewail our infelicity?

2. Hence see the miserable change which the fall doth brought upon man. When God made him at first, he was perfect in understanding, he knew ⟨p. 476⟩how to put difference between good and bad, and chuse that which would pr•move the Glory of God & his own eternal felicity: and all his senses were in a due subordination, and offered him no delusion: but since his Apostasy he hath crazed his understanding, and fallen in a spiritual account, a species below himself. God therefore would have all men in their natural state to know that they are beasts, Eccl. 3.18. And how should this thought help to abase us, and make us bewail our infelicity?

3. Learn hence the reason of the gross security of Sinners, under the awakening means of Grace. Though the word be dispensed never so plainly and solemnly, yet how few are moved at it, or concerned for themselves after all? And we might wonde• that men who have reason in them should be s stupidly senseless, but that the truth in hand may satisfy us: men in their natural state are a company of fools, and brutes, and madmen, that are ou of their wits, that do not know, and therefore do no consider; God puts them together,