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IV. From this original corruption, whereby . we are utterly indifpofed, disabled and made oppofite to all good", and wholly inclined to all evil' do proceed all actual tranfgreffions.

V. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in thofe that are regenerated'; and although it be through Chrift pardoned and

me. Gen. 5. 3. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a fon in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth. Job 14. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Job 15. 14. What is man that he fhould be clean? and be which is born of a woman, that he fhould be righte

ous.

IV. h Rom. 5. 6. For when we were yet without ftrength, in due tine Chrift died for the ungodly. Rom. 8. 7. Becaufe the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not fubject to the law of God neither indeed can be. John 3. 6. That which is born of the flesh is fiefh; and that which is born of the Spirit is fpirit. Rom. 7. 18. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing; for to will is prefent with me, but bow to perform that which is good, I find not.

i Gen. 8. 21. And the Lord faid, The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, Rom. 3. 10, 11, 12. As it is written, There is none righte

ous, no not one :-There is none that understandeth, there is none that feeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doth good, no not one.

k Jam, 1. 14, 15. But e very man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own luft, and enticed, hen, when luft hath conceived, it bringeth forth fin; and fin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Mat. 15. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, falfe witnefs, blafphemies

V. 1 Rom, 7. 14, 17, 18, 23. For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, fold under fin. Now then, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my fleth, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but bow to perform that which is good, I find not. But I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of

mortified, yet both itself, and all the motions hereof, are truly and properly finTM.

VI. Every fin, both original and actual, being a tranfgreffion of the righteous law of God, and contrary thereunto", doth in its own nature, bring guilt upon the finner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God", and curse of the law,

fin which is in my members. Jam. 3. 2. For in many things we offend all. Prov. 20. 9. Who can fay, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my fin? Eccl. 7. 20. For there is not a juft man upon earth that doeth good and finneth not.

m Rom. 7. 5, 7, 8, 25. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of fin which were by the law did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. What fhall we fay then? Is the law fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law: For I had not known luft, except the law had faid, Thou shalt not covet. But fin taking occafion by the commandment wrought in me all manner of concupifence. For without the law fin was dead. So then with

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and fo made fubject to death', with all miferies fpiritual, temporal' and eternal".

CHA P. VII.

Of God's Covenant with Man.

HE diftance between God and the creature

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is fo great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him, as their bleffedness and reward, but by fome voluntary condefcenfion on God's part, which he hath been pleased to exprefs by way of

covenanta.

II. The first covenant made with man was a

r Rom. 6. 23. For the wages of fin is death.

f Eph. 4. 18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, becaufe of the blindness of their heart.

t Lam. 3. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his fins ?

v Mat. 25. 41. Then fhall he fay alfo unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye

curfed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; 2 Theff. 1. 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting deftruction from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power.

1. a Job 9. 32, 33 For be is not a man, as I am, that I fhould answer him, and we fhould come together in judgment. Neither is there any days-man betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. Pfal. 113. 5, 6. Who is

covenant of Works', wherein life was promised to Adam, and in him to his pofterity, upon condition of perfect and personal obedience.

III. Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a fecond, commonly called the covenant of Grace: wherein he freely offereth unto finners life and falvation by Jefus Chrift, requiring of them faith in him,, that they may be faved, and promifing to give unto

like unto the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high? Who humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven, and in the earth. Acts 17. 24, 25 God that made the world and all things therein, feeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands:-Neither is worfhipped with, men's, hands as though he needed any thing, feeing he giveth to all life and breath, and all things. See alfo Job 35. 7, 8. and Luke

17. IO.

II. b Gal. 3. 12. And the law is not faith: but, The man that doeth them fhall live in them. Hofea 6. 7. Gen. 2. 16, 17.

c Rom. 10. 5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteoufnefs which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things fhall live by them.

d Gen. 2. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou

eateft thereof, thou fhalt fure-
ly die. Gal. 3. 10.
For as
many as are of the works of
the law, are under the curfe ;
For it is written, Curfed is
every one that continueth not
in all things which are written
in the book of the law to do
them.

Ill. é Gal. 3. 21.-For if there had been a law given, which could have given life, verily righteoufnefs fhould have been by the law. Rom. 8. 3. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God fending his own Son in the likenefs of finful flesh, and for fin, condemned fin in the flesh. Ifai. 42. 6. I the Lord have called thee in righteoufnefs, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles. Gen. 3. 15.

f Mark 16.15, 16. And he faid unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gofpel to every creature. He E

all thofe that are ordained unto life his Holy Spirit, to make them willing and able to believes.

IV. This covenant of grace is frequently fet forth in fcripture by the name of a testament, in reference to the death of Jefus Chrift, the teftator, and to the everlafting inheritance, with all things belonging to it therein bequeathed".

V. This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the gofpel: under the law it was administered by

that believeth and is baptized fhall be faved; but he that believeth not fhall be damned. John 3. 16. For God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him, fhould not perish, but have everlasting life.

g Ezek. 36. 26, 27. A new heart alfo will I give you, and a new fpirit will I put within you, and I will take away the ftony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my ftatutes, and ye fhall keep my judgments, and do them. John 6. 37, 44. All that the Father giveth me fhall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will in no wife caft out.-No man can come to me, except the Father which hath fent me draw him; and I will raife him up at the last day.

IV h Heb. 9. 15, 16, 17.

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death for the redemption of the tranfgreffions that were under the firft teftament, they which are called might receive the promife of eternal inheritance. For where a teftament is, there must alfo of neceflity be the death of the teftator. For a testament is of force after men are dead; otherwife it is of no ftrength at all while the teftator liveth. Heb. 7. 22. By fo much was Jefus made a furety of a better teftament. Luke 22. 20. Likewife

alfo the cup after fupper faying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood, which is fhed for you. See alfo I Cor. 11. 25.

V. i 2 Cor. 3. 6, 7, 8, 9. Who alfo hath made us able minifters of the new teftament; not of the letter, but of the fpirit; for the letter killeth, but the fpirit giveth life. But if the miniltration of death written and engraven in

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