Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart saying. What is that to us? Let that generation, of whom the text […] see to that. For the Lord has left the case of that generation on record, to be a looking glass to all after-generations; wherein they may see their own corruption of heart, and what their […] would be too, if he restrained them not; for as in water face answereth to […] so the heart of man to man, Prov xxvii. 19. Adam's […] has tra• all men's hearts alike in this matter, Hence the apostle, Rom iii. 10. proves the corruption of the nature, hearts, and lives, of all men, from what the Psalmist says of the wicked in his day, Psal. xiv. 1, 2, 3. Psal. v. 9. Psal. cxl. 3 Psal. x. 7. Psal▪ •xvi. 1. and from what Jeremiah saith of the wicked in his day, Jer ix. 3. and from what Isaiah says of those that lived in his time▪ Isa lvii. 7, 8. and concludes with that, ver. 19. Now we know, that what things •ever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, ⟨p. 34⟩and all the world may become guilty before God. Had the history of the deluge been transmitted unto us, without the reason thereof in the text, we might thence have gathered the corruption and total depravation of man's nature: for what other quarrel could a holy and just God have with the infants that were destroyed by the flood, seeing they had no actual sin? If we saw a wise man, who having made a curious piece of work, and heartily approved of it when he gave it out of his hand, as fit for the use it was designed for rise up in wrath and break it all in pieces, when he looked on it afterwards; would we not thence conclude the frame of it had been quite marred, since it went out of his hand, and that it does not serve for that use it was at first designed for? How much more, when we see the holy and wise God, destroying the work of his own hands, once solemnly pronounced by him very good, may we conclude that the original frame thereof is utterly marred, that it cannot be mended, but it must needs be new made, or lost altogether? Gen. vi 6, 7. And it […] the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieve• him at his heart: and the Lord said, I will destroy man, or blot him out, as a man doth a sentence out of a book, that cannot be corrected, by cutting off some letters, syllables, or words, and interlining others here and there;
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart saying. What is that to us? Let that generation, of whom the text 〈…〉 see to that. For the Lord has left the case of that generation on record, to be a looking glass to all after-generations; wherein they may see their own corruption of heart, and what their 〈…〉 would be too, if he restrained them not; for as in water face answereth to 〈…〉 so the heart of man to man, Prov xxvii. 19. Adam's 〈…〉 has tra• all men's hearts alike in this matter, Hence the apostle, Rom iii. 10. proves the corruption of the nature, hearts, and lives, of all men, from what the Psalmist says of the wicked in his day, Psal. xiv. 1, 2, 3. Psal. v. 9. Psal. cxl. 3 Psal. x. 7. Psal▪ •xvi. 1. and from what Jeremiah saith of the wicked in his day, Jer ix. 3. and from what Isaiah says of those that lived in his time▪ Isa lvii. 7, 8. and concludes with that, ver. 19. Now we know, that what things •ever the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, ⟨p. 34⟩and all the world may become guilty before God. Had the history of the deluge been transmitted unto us, without the reason thereof in the text, we might thence have gathered the corruption and total depravation of man's nature: for what other quarrel could a holy and just God have with the infants that were destroyed by the flood, seeing they had no actual sin? If we saw a wise man, who having made a curious piece of work, and heartily approved of it when he gave it out of his hand, as fit for the use it was designed for rise up in wrath and break it all in pieces, when he looked on it afterwards; would we not thence conclude the frame of it had been quite marred, since it went out of his hand, and that it does not serve for that use it was at first designed for? How much more, when we see the holy and wise God, destroying the work of his own hands, once solemnly pronounced by him very good, may we conclude that the original frame thereof is utterly marred, that it cannot be mended, but it must needs be new made, or lost altogether? Gen. vi 6, 7. And it the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieve him at his heart: and the Lord said, I will destroy man, or blot him out, as a man doth a sentence out of a book, that cannot be corrected, by cutting off some letters, syllables, or words, and interlining others here and there;
