Religion & morality > Human nature in its fourfold state

•14 That man's Nature State IT.
's ’o rdh. Shew you how man's nature comes to be
thus corrupt j(l,
{“{/tiy, Malce application.
That Man’s Nature is corrupted.
First, I am to confirm the dottrine of the corruption
of nature : to ho*J the glals to your eyes, wherein you
truly iee y■nr finful nature : which, tho’ God takes par¬
ticular notice ol it, many 4o quite overlook. And here
we fliaij confult, i God’s word, a Men’s experience
and obfeivafion.
I. For feripture proof, let us confider,
'1 rfl> fJpw the feripture takes particular notice of
Adam’s communicating his image to his pofienty, Gen.
v /Mam begat a fin in bus own Hkenefs, alter h:s
image, end caltid bus name Seth. Compare with this
\ t. r. . of that chapter, fa the day that Cod created man,
:u the bihenejs of Cod made he him. Behold lic-re, how the
in'age after which man was matte, and the image after
which lie is begotten, are eppofe-d Man was made in
the hkenefs of God ; that is, a holy and righteous God,
made a holy and righteous creature ; but fallen Adam
begat a fon, net in the likenefs of God, but in his own
likenc!3 ; that is, corrupt finful Adam begat a corrupt
finfuhfon. For as the image of God bore righteoufnefs
and immortality in it, as was cleared before ib this ,J
image of fallen Adam bore corruption and death in it, '•
} Cor. xv. 4), 50. compare with ver 22. Moles, in e
that fifth chapter of Gene fis, being (ogive us the firft bill
cf mortality, that ever was in the world, ufhers it in
with this, that dying Adam begat mortals Having fin¬
ned, he became mortal, according to tire threatening;
and fo he begat a fon, in his own likenefs, finful, and
therefore nroital : thus fin and death palled on all.
Dotibtlefs, he becat both Cain and Abel in his own like-
nefs, as well as Beth. But it is not recorded of Abel;
becaufe he left no iJTbe behind him, and his falling the
fivlt facrifice to death in the world, was a fufficieut docu¬
ment of it : nor of Cain, to whom it might have been
thought peculiar, becaufe of his monftrous wickedntfs •,
and belidcs, all his polteritv was drowned in the Hood :
but