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A06018	An epitomie of mans misery and deliuerie In a sermon preached on the third of the Romans, vers. 23. and 24. By Mr. Paul Bayne.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1619 (1619)	STC 1641; ESTC S101578	26,964	49

root of all mankinde we were in him In whom wee were and sinned and in time to sprout and shoot out of him he being our first parent wee were in his loynes and lineally to descend from him and so as Leui in the seuenth to the Hebrewes 9.10 is said to pay tithe vnto Melchisedeck because Abraham from whom Leui did spring in the third generation yeelded that duty so all of vs being in the loynes of Adam the Lord so decreeing it whatsoeuer he did that was likewise to bee accounted as our deed Whose sinne is therefore iustly charged on vs. Neither is it vniust with God to charge the personall deed of one on the heads of vs all For we see in the iust proceedings of Princes the same resembled who hold guilty not the traitor only but the whole blood race or lineage thus tainted who are therefore iustly dis-inherited And thus much shall suffice touching the first Secondly 2. By sinne inherent in vs. we are all sinners in the eye of God in regard of sinne which as the Apostle speaketh dwelleth in vs. And this is nothing else but the lacke of righteousnesse which originally was in man and a spirituall leprosie of iniquitie whereby all his powers inward and outward are infected but this poynt I will explaine more manifestly There was in man not onely a naturall but a spirituall life which the Apostle calleth the life of God Ephes 4.18 consisting of a singular knowledge in the minde Lacking due righteousnesse straightnesse as Ecclesiastes speaketh chap. 7.31 or righteousnesse in the will holinesse in the affections But now man hath no light in his mind as in the eleuenth verse of this Chapter our author citeth out of the 14. and 53. Psalmes In the vnderstanding no man vnderstandeth that is no man but by nature hee is quite stripped of all vnderstanding in things spirituall and heauenly the inward eye lacketh that straightnesse which clothing the will after a sort should make it to moue after things which are truly good In the place aboue named the Apostle addeth In the will None seeketh or enquireth after God that is the will hath no power whereby it should moue after God and so by consequent any thing that is truly good For as to disallow or approue are functions of the vnderstanding so to eschew or prosecute are faculties appertaining to the will So in the third place In our affections all the affections want that holinesse that should cause their motions to be sanctified and in stead of these excellent graces wherewith we were enriched And being corrupt and prone to ill corruption and vnrighteousnesse haue made seizure of vs and doe occupie vs thorowout In our vnderstanding For in our vnderstanding darknesse is seated as the Apostle speaketh of the Ephesians chap. 5. vers 8. that before their conuersion whilest yet they abode in their naturall condition they were darknesse it selfe hauing as it is chap. 4. vers 18. their cogitations darkened so that not the least sparke of spiritual light did shine in them yea manifold atheisticall doubtings and wauerings touching God his truth iustice and goodnesse are most manifest and frequent in vs and euen possesse vs than the which there is not a more pregnant proofe of our grosse ignorance in things diuine For how could we doubt of these things if with a cleare eye of vnderstanding we did see them Doubting howsoeuer occasionally it be a mother of knowledge yet in it selfe it is the fruit daughter of ignorance In our will The will is altogether rebellious as the Apostle further saith All are gone out of the way The word Psalm 14.3 signifieth to giue backe sturdily as a stubburne heifer that refuseth to admit the yoke implying thus much that the will of man is become crosse and ouerthwart neither is nor can bee subiect vnto any thing that is good Take an experiment heereof in our selues From this rebellion of the will it commeth to passe that our wicked willes the more they are vrged with the righteous commandement of God the more our vilenesse and filthinesse breaketh out and is detected In our desires and affections So for our lusts and desires Gal. 5.17 they are against the spirit that is against that law of righteousnesse which the spirit as the finger of God doth write in our hearts Our ioy our feare our hope our loue these are impurely and vnholily moued in vs being carried after euill and vnlawfull obiects or not contained with in due limits for the manner and measure of them You will aske how I can tell that man is thus void of all righteousnes and couered with corruption Our corruption is discouered 1. From the Law To which I answere this may be knowne by the Law In the 20. verse of this Chapter it is said that by the Law doth come the knowledge of sinne not onely of that which passeth from vs in some act but of that which is still resident within vs. For whatsoeuer righteousnesse the Law requireth it doth presuppose in man an excellent conformity and inward grace sutable and agreeable thereunto For the Lord could not in iustice haue required that of his creature which his creature was neuer inabled to performe Now if we lay our selues vnto the Law To which wee neither doe nor can conforme we shall finde that there is nothing in man that doth or can moue him to fulfill the righteousnesse of it nay that that which is in him doth draw him back as which is not neither indeed can be subiect therunto Secondly 2. By our regeneration whosoeuer are become new men in Christ Iesus may hence perceiue it For this is a maxime in diuinity that whatsoeuer is recouered and found of vs in Christ was first lost in Adam Wherein what good we receiue was before it wanting in vs. Finde you then that since you came to dwell by faith in Christ and he in you you haue receiued to know God your heauenly Father know that by nature this knowledge was cleane gone Perceiue you that knowing the Father you come to this that you can trust in him for helpe in trouble and a supply of all good both bodily and spirituall vnderstand then that by nature there was no such confidence toward God in you Come you further vpon the knowledge of God your Father to loue him his word and those that are begotten of him Come you to delight and reioyce in these perswade your selfe that by nature you were vtterly destitute of this spirituall loue and ioy 3. By the strife of the flesh and spirit in which the flesh wholly is opposite to the spirit Thirdly if thou be a regenerate man thou maist discerne it by the strife of the flesh and spirit in thee In the which obserue if thou canst finde any good in thy flesh Is there any knowledge in it Nay doe not rather the reliques of