IV. From this original corruption, whereby we are utterly indisposed, disabled and made opposite to all good", and wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all actual transgressions. V. This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated'; and although it be through Christ 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 should be clean? and be which is born of a woman, that he should be righte ous. IV. h Rom. 5. 6. For when we were yet without strength, 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. John 3. 6. That which is born of the flesh is fiesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Rom. 7. 18. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing; for to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. i Gen. 8. 21. And the Lord said, 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 dooth good, no not one. k Jam, 1. 14, 15. But e very man is tenipted when he is drawn away of his own luft, and enticed. I 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, false witness, blafphemies For t 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. know that in me, that is, in my fleth, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is prefent with me, but how 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 fin". 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 sinner, whereby he is bound over to the wrath of God, and curse of the law, and fo made subject to death, with all miseries spiritual, temporal' and eternal". 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 just 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 shall we say then? Is the law fin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known fin, but by the law: For I had not known lust, 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 sin was dead. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh, the law of fin. VI. n 1 John 3.4. Whofoever committeth fin tranfgreffeth also the law, for fin is the tranfgreffion of the law. o Rom. 3. 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. 2. 3. and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. q Gal. 3. 10 For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. CHAP. VII. Of God's Covenant with Man. T HE distance between God and the creature is so great, that although reasonable creatures do owe obedience unto him as their Creator, yet they could never have any fruition of him, as their blessedness and reward, but by fome voluntary condescension on God's part, which he hath been pleased to express 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 underitanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because 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 shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels; 2 Theff. 1. 9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the prefence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. 1. a Job 9. 32, 33. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should 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 posterity, upon condition of perfect and perfonal obedienced. III. Man by his fall having made himself incapable of life by that covenant, the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant of Grace: wherein he freely offereth unto finners life and falvation by Jefus Christ, requiring of them faith in him, that they may be saved, 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 worshipped with, men's, hands as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life and breath, and all things. See alfo Job 35. 7, 8. and Luke 17. 10. II. b Gal. 3. 12. And the law is not faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Hofea 6. 7. Gen. 2. 16, 17. c Rom. 10. 5. For Mofes defcribeth the righteoufness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall 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 eatest thereof, thou shalt surely 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. e Gal. 3. 21. For if there had been a law given, which could have given life, verily righteoufness should 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 likeness of finful flesh, and for fin, condemned fin in the flesh. Ifai. 42. 6. I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, 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. E f Mark 16.15, 16. And he faid unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gofpel to every creature. He all those 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 Jesus Christ, the teftator, and to the everlasting inheritance, with all things belonging to it therein bequeathedh. V. This covenant was differently administered in the time of the law, and in the time of the gospel': under the law it was administered by that believeth and is baptized shall be faved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. John 3. 16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son. that whofoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. g Ezek. 36. 26, 27. A new heart alfo will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the stony 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 statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. John 6. 37, 44. All that the Father giveth me shall 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 raise 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 first teftament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. For where a teftament is, there must alfo of neceslity be the death of the teftator. For a testament is of force after men are dead; otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. Heb. 7. 22. By so much was Jefus made a furety of a better testament. Luke 22. 20. Likewise also the cup after supper saying, This cup is the new teftament in my blood, which is shed for you. See also I Cor. 11. 25. V. i 2 Cor. 3. 6, 7, 8, 9. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. But if the ministration of death written and engraven in |