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The miferable Condition into which man threw himself by fin: Our first Parents (by the temptation of Sathan) difobeyed God, broke his righteous Law and Commandement; and thereby caft themselves out of the Favour of God, became the Slaves of Satan, and liable to the curfe of the Law, and brought a great depravation of foul and body upon themselves; And fuch as our first Parents were, fuch muft their pofterity needs be: For who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean, says Fob, Chap.

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They having loft the Image of God them. felves, the holineffe, and happineffe in which they were made, could not conveigh it to their pofterity. So that the nature of man is now become corrupt, prone to evil, backward to good. And this miferable condition is derived to us from Adam by our immediate Parents; and as men come to be born in feveral Ages, and generations, fo they actually participate of the fap that comes from the firft root; we being therefore all of us in fo bad a Condition by nature, and by caftome and practice in fin having made our felves much worfe, and more abominable in the fight of God, more guilty and liable to his wrath, we are to know and confider that this woful ftate of fin and mifery is by no means to be rested in; But feeing we are fallen into fo lamentable a condition, we muft speedi

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ly endeavour to get out of it. And therefor let us remember that without Converfion ther is no hope of Salvation; Except a man be born again, and made a new Creature, he cannot enter into the Kingdome of God, Joh.3.3.

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Gen. 3.6. And when the woman faw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleafant to the eyes, and a tree to be defired to make one wife, fhe tooke of the fruit thereof, and did ease, and gave alfo unto her husband with her, and he did eate.

V.7. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they fewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves

aprons.

V.8. And they heard the voyce of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the coole of the day. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the prefence of the Lord God, amongst the trees of the Garden.

V.13. And the Lord God faid unto the woman, what is this that thou hast done? And the woman faid, the Serpent beguiled me, and I did eate. V. 16. Unto the woman he faid, I will greatly multiply thy forrow, and thy conception: in forrow fhalt thou bring forth children; and thy defire Thal be to thy husband,and he shall rule over thee. V. 17. And unto Adam be faid, because thou hast bearkened to the voice of thy wife, and haft ea

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ten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, faying, thou shalt not eate of it ; curfed is the ground for thy fake, in forrow shalt thou ease of it all the dayes of thy life.

V.18. Thornes alfo and thistles fhall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eate the hearb of the field.

V. 19. In the fweat of thy face (halt thou eate bread, till then return unto the ground, for ont of it waft thou taken, for duft thou art, and unto duft fhalt thou return.

1 Tim. 2. 13. For Adam was first formed then

Eve.

V. 14. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the tranfgreẞion. V.15. Notwithstanding she shall be faved in Child-bearing, if he continue in faith, and charity, and holineß, with fobriety.

2 Cor. 11.3. For I feare, leaft by any meanes as the Serpent beguiled Eve through his fubtilty, So your minds (hould be corrupted from the fimplicity that is in Chrift.

Gen. 5. 3. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty yeares, and begat a Son in his own likeness, after his Image, and called his name Seth. Cen. 6.5. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every ima gination of the thoughts of his heart was onely evill continually.

Gen. 8. 21. And the Lord smelled a sweet favour,

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and the Lord faid in his heart, I will not again curfe the ground any more for mans fake, for the imagination of mans heart is evill from his youth, neither will I again fmite any more every thing living as I have done,

Rom. 5. 12. Wherefore as by one man fin entered into the world, and death by fin, and fo death paffed upon all men for that all have finned. V.18. Therefore, as by the offence of one, Fudgement came upon all men to condemnation, even So 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 fhall many be made righteous.

Pfal. 51.5. Behold, I was fhapen in iniquity, and in fin did my mother conceive me.

Job 15. 14. What is man, that he should be clean, and he which is borne of a woman, that he should be righteous?

V. 16. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

Job 14. 4. Who can bring a Clean thing out of

an unclean? Not one.

Rom. 3. 9. What then are we better then they; no in no wife, for we have before proved both Fewes and Gentiles, that they are all under fin.

V. 10. As it is written, there is none righteous,

no not one:

V. 23. For all have finned and come short of the Glory of God.

1 Cor. 15.22. For as in Adam all die, even fo in Chrift fhall all be made alive.

Acts 26.18. To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkneffe to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveneß of fins, and inheritance among them which are fanctified by faith that is in me.

2 Tim. 2.26. And that they may recover themfelves out of the fnare of the Devill, who are taken Captive by him at his will.

Rom. 8.6. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace, V. 7. Because the carnall mind is enmity against God, for it is not fubject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be.

1 Cor. 2. 14. But the naturall man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolifhness to him, neither can he know them, becaufe they are spiritually difcerned.

Rom. 7. 14. For we know that the Law is fpirituall, but I am carnall, fold under fin.

me,

V. 18. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing,for to will is prefent with but how to performe that which is good I find not. V. 23. But I fee another Law in my members, warring against the Law of my minde, and bringing me into Captivity to the Law of fin which is in my members.

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