Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

WE have seen what man was, as God made him, a lovely and happy creature: let us view him now as he hath unmade himself: and we shall see him a sinful and miserable creature. This is the sad state we were brought into by the fall: a state […] black and doleful as the former was glorious; and this we commonly call The state of nature, or Man's natural state, according to that of the apostle, Eph ii. 2. And were by nature the children of […] even as others. And herein two things are to be considered; 1st, The sinfulness; 2dly, The misery of this state, in which all the unregenerate do live. I begin with the sinfulness of man's nature• state, whereof the text gives us a full, tho' short account: And […] that the wickedness of man was great, &c.

WE have seen what man was, as God made him, a lovely and happy creature: let us view him now as he hath unmade himself: and we shall see him a sinful and miserable creature. This is the sad state we were brought into by the fall: a state 〈…〉 black and doleful as the former was glorious; and this we commonly call The state of nature, or Man's natural state, according to that of the apostle, Eph ii. 2. And were by nature the children of 〈…〉 even as others. And herein two things are to be considered; 1st, The sinfulness; 2dly, The misery of this state, in which all the unregenerate do live. I begin with the sinfulness of man's nature• state, whereof the text gives us a full, tho' short account: And 〈…〉 that the wickedness of man was great, &c.

The scope and design of these words is, to clear God's justice, in bringing the flood on the old world. There are two particular causes of it taken notice of in the preceding verses. (1.) Mixed marriages, ver. 2. The sons of God, the posterity of Seth and Enos, professors of the true religion, married with the daughters of men, the profane, cursed race of Cain. They did not carry the matter before the Lord, that he might choose for them,