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Head I. God's noticingthe Sin of Nat. 133
more than all this, thou canft not fo much as [eek
aright, but lieft helplefs, as an Infant expofed in the
open Field, Ezek. xvi. 5.
Use III. I exhort you to believe this fad Truth.
Alas! ’tis evident, it is very little believed in the
World. Few are concerned to get their corrupt
Converfation changed ; but fewer, by far, to get
their Nature changed. Moft Men know not what
they are, nor what Spirits they arc of : They are
as the Eye, which feeing many Things, never fees
it felf. But until ye know, every one the Plague of
his own Heart, there’s no Hope ot your Recovery.
Why will ye not believe it ? Ye have plain Scrip¬
ture Teftimony for it; but you are loath to enter¬
tain fuch an ill Opinion of your felves : Alas !
that’s the Nature of your Difeafe, Kev. iii. 17.
Z’hou knoweft not that thou art wretched, and
miferable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Lord
open their Eyes to fee it, before they die of it ; and
in Hell lift up their Eyes, and fee what they will
not fee now.
I ihall fhut up this weight Point, of the Corrup¬
tion of Man’s Nature, with a few Words to a ano¬
ther Dottrine from the Text.
Dodtrine, God takes [pedal Notice of our natural
Corruption, or the Sin of our Nature. This he te-
ftifies two Ways. (1.) By his lEbrd, as in the
Text, God faw that every. Imagination of the
thoughts of Man's Heart was only Evil continually.
See Pfal. xiv. 2, 3. (2.) By his Works. God writes
his particular Notice of it, and Difpleafure with
it, as in many of his Works, fo cfpecially in thefe
two.
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