SERMON III.
EXTRACT I.
On man in his natural state.
"He has never made any distinction in the manifestation of his love to his rational creatures. He has placed every son and daughter of Adam on the same ground, and in the same condition that our first parents were in. For every child must come clean out of the hands of God." "The same principle, the same divine life which God breathed into our first parents, he has breathed into every rational soul under heaven." p. 54.
What saith the Holy Spirit by the Scripture?
| "God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he him.—And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very good. Gen. i. 27, 31. And God commanded the man, saying, 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. Gen. ii. 17. And the woman did eat, and gave also unto her husband, and he did eat." Gen iii. 6. |
"And Adam begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth." Gen v. iii. "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one." Job, xiv. 4. "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me." Ps. li. 5. "The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies." Ps. lviii, iii. |
