CHAP. VI. Of the Fall of Man, of Sin, and of the Punishment thereof. OUR UR firft Parents being feduced by the Subtilty and Temptation of Satan, finned in eating the forbidden Fruit. This their Sin, God was pleased, according to his wife and holy Counfel, to permit, having purposed to order it to his own Glory b. II. by this Sin they fell from their original Righteousness and Communion with God, and fo became dead in Sind, and wholly defiled in all the Faculties and Parts of Soul and Body . I. Gen. 3. 13. And the Lord God faid unto the woman, What is this that thou haft done? And the woman faid, The ferpent beguiled me, and I did eat. 2 Cor. 11.3. But I fear left by any means, as the ferpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, fo your minds fhould be corrupted from the fimplicity that is in Chrift. b Rom. 11. 32. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all. II, Gen. 3.6. And when the woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wife; fhe took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. v.7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked:and they fewed figleaves together, and made themfelves aprons. v. 8. And they heard the voice of the Lord God, walking III. They in the garden, in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the prefence of the Lord God, amongst the trees of the garden. Eccl. 7. 29. Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have fought out many inventions. Rom. 3. 23. For all have finned and come short of the glory of God. d Gen. 2. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou fhalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eateft thereof, thou shalt furely die. Eph. 2. 1. And you hath be quickned, who were dead in trefpaffes and fins. e Tit. I. 15. Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled, and unbelieving, is nothing pure, but even their mind and confcience is defiled. Gen. 6. 5. And God faw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts III. They being the Root of all Mankind, the Guilt of this Sin was imputed, and the fame Death thoughts of his heart, was only the face of the earth, and hath deevil continually. Jer. 17. 9. The termined the times before appointheart is deceitful above all things, ed, and the bounds of their habitaand defperately wicked, who can tion: With Rom. 5. 12. Wherefore, know it? Rom. 3. 10. As it is writ- as by one man fin entred into the ten, There is none righteous, no world, and death by fin; and fo not one. v. II. There is none that death paffed upon all men, for understandeth, there is none that that all have finned. v. 15. But feeketh after God. v. 12, They are not as the offence, fo alfo is the all gone out of the way, they are free gift. For if through the offence together become unprofitable,there of one many be dead; much more is none that doth good, no not one. the grace of God, and the gift by v. 13. Their throat is an open fe- grace, which is by one man, Jefus pulchre; with their tongues they Chrift, hath abounded unto many. have used deceit; the poifon of afps v. 16. And not as it was by one that is under their lips. v. 14. Whofe finned, so is the gift: for the judgmouth is full of curfing and bitter- ment was by one to condemnation; nefs. v. 15. Their feet are swift to but the free gift is of many offences fhed blood. v. 16. Destruction and unto juftification. v. 17. For if by misery are in their ways. v. 17. And one mans offence, death reigned the way of peace have they not by onc; much more they which reknown. v. 18. There is no fear of ceive abundance of grace, and of God before their eyes. the gift of righteousness, fhall reign in life by one, Jefus Chrift. v. 18. Therefore as by the offence of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation even fo by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto juftification of life. v. 19. For as by one mans disobedience, many were made finners: fo by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous. And 1 Cor. 15. 21. For fince by man came death, by man came alfo the refurrection of the dead. v. 22. For as in Adam all die, even fo in Christ, fhall all be made alive. *v.45. And III. f Gen. 1. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him: male and female created he them. v. 28. And God bleffed them, and God faid unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and fubdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the fea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And Gen. 2. 16. And the Lord God commanded the man, faying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayeft freely eat. v. 17. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, fo it is written, The first man Adam thou shalt not eat of it: for in the was made a living foul, the laft day that thou eateft thereof, thou Adam was made a quickning fpirit. fhalt furely die. And Acts 17. 26. v. 49. And as we have born the And hath made of one blood, all image of the earthy, we also fhall nations of men, for to dwell on all bear the image of the heavenly. & Pfal. Death in Sin and corrupted Nature, conveyed to all their Pofterity, defcending from them by ordinary Generation 8. IV. From this original Corruption, whereby we are utterly indifpofed, difabled, and made oppofite to all Good h, and wholly inclined to all Evil, do proceed all actual Tranfgreffions *. V. This Corruption of Nature during this Life, • Pfalm 51. 5. Behold, I was fhapen in iniquity: and in fin did my mother conceive 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. fob 14. 4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Job 15. 14. What is man that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? IV. 1 Rom. 5. 6. For when we were yet without ftrength, in due time Chrift died for the ungodly. Rom. 8. 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not fubject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 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 how to perform that which is good,I find not. Col. 1.21. And you that were fometime alienated, and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled. doth ground any more for mans fake;for the imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth: neither will I again fmite any more, every thing living as I have done. Rom. 3. 10. As it is written, There is none righteous, no not one: v. 11. There is none that understandeth, there is none that feeketh after God. v. 12. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, no not one. v. Isa k Jam. 1. 14. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own luft, and enticed. Then when luft hath conceived, it bringeth forth fin: and fin when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Eph. 2. 2. Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of difobedience. v. 3. Among whom alfo we all had our converfation in times paft, in the lufts of our flesh, fulfilling the defires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. Matth. 15. i Gen. 6. 5. And God faw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart, was only evil continually. Gen. 8. 21. And the Lord fmelled a fweet favour, and the Lord faid in his heart, I will not again curfe the blafphemies. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, V. 11 Jahr D doth remain in those that are regenerated': And although it be,through Chrift, pardoned and mortified, yet both it felf, and all the Motions thereof are truly and properly Sin ". VI. Every Sin, 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 Sinner, whereby he is bound over V. 1 1 John 1. 8. If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive our felves, and the truth is not in us. v. 10. If we fay that we have not finned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. Rom. 7. 14. For we know that the law is fpiritual: but I am carnal, fold under fin. v. 17. Now then, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me. v. 18. For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. v. 23. But I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. James 3. 2. For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the fame is a perfect man, and able alfo to bridle the whole body. 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 doth good and finneth not. m Romans 7. 5. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of fins which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. v. 7. What fhall we fay then? Is the law fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by to the law: for I had not known luft, except the law had faid, Thou fshalt not covet. v. 8. But fin taking occafion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupifcence. For without the law fin was dead. v. 25. I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I my self serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of fin. Galatians 5. 17. For the flesh lufteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and thefe are contrary the one to the other; fo that ye cannot do the things that ye would. VI. 1 John 3. 4. Whofoever committeth fin, tranfgreffeth also the law: for fin is the trangreffion of the law. • Romans 2. 15. Which thew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accufing, or else excufing one another. Rom. 3. 9. What then? are we better than they? No, in no wife for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under fin; v. 19. Now we know, that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. P Eph. to the Wrath of God P, and Curfe of the Law 9, and fo made subject to Death, with all Miferies fpiritual, temporal, and eternal v. TH CHAP. VII. Of God's Covenant with Man. HE Distance between God and the Creature 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 Bieffednefs and Reward, but by fome voluntary Condefcenfion on God's Part, which he hath been pleased to express by way of Covenant a. P Eph. 2. 3. Among whom alfo we all had our conversation in times paft, in the lufts of our flesh, fulfilling the defires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 9 Gal. 3. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: 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. Rom. 6. 23. For the wages of fin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jefus Chrift our Lord. f Eph. 4. 18. Having the underftanding darkned, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: * Romans 8.20. For the creature was made fubject to vanity, not willingly, but by reafon of him who hath fubjected the fame in hope: II. The Lam. 3. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his fins? ▾ Matthew 25.41. Then fhall he fay alfo unto them on the left hand, depart from me, ye curfed, into everlafting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. 2 Thef. 1. 9. Who fhall be punished with everlafting deftru&tion, from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. I. a Ifai. 40. 13. Who hath directed the fpirit of the Lord? or being his counfeller hath taught him? v. 14. With whom took he counfel, and who inftructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and fhewed to him the way of understanding? v. 15. Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the fmall duft of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the ifles as a very little thing. v. 16. And Lebanon not fufficient to burn, nor D-2 the |