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Media: conference - Choice heads 2 The miseries of man in the State of nature

2. What are the miseries of man in the State of nature?

1 HE is impure in conception Ps li 5
2 He is born in iniquity Ps li 5
3 He is defiled with sin in the whole nature Ps Ixiv 6 Ezek xvi 6 Rom vii 24
4 His thoughts are corrupted with sin Gen vii 5 Eph iv 17 18
5 All the members of his body and powers of his soul are defiled with sin 2 Pet ii 14
6 His members are servants to unrighteousness and to iniquity Rom iii 13 16 vi 19
7 He is fpiritually blind Rev iii 17 Jer x 14 1 Cor ii 14 Eph v 8
8 His mind is fet on evil works Eph iv 18 Col i 12
9 His will lufteth after evil Rom viii 7
10 His heart is deceitful and def perately wicked Jer xvii 9
11 His affections are inordinate Isa lix 7
12 He hath a defiled confcience Tit i 15
13 He hath an insatiable desire after sin Job xiv 4 xv 16
14 He is full of sin Prov xxii 15 Rom i 24 vii 5 14 2 Pet ii 19
15 He is dead in sin Eph ii 1 2
16 His civil actions are fin Prov xxi 4
17 His best services are fin Prov xv 8 9 28 29
18 He is unable to any good Ro iii 12 vii 19 viii 8 2 Cor iii 5 Rev iii 17
19 He is hated of God Ps v 5
20 He is separated from all fellowship with God Isa lix 2 Eph ii 12
21 He is under God's curse Gal iii 10 Deut xx 16 17 18
22 He is without Christ Eph ii 12 and out of the communion of saints Eph ii 12
23 He is a bondslave of Satan John viii 34 44 2 Cor iv 4 Eph ii 2 Heb ii 15
24 He is a child of wrath Eph ii 3
25 He is subject to all the calamities and curfes of this life Deut xxviii 15 16 etc
26 His life is fhort and vain and full of toil and care Gen iii 19 Eccl v 14 Pfa ciii 14 15
27 He is liable to death Rom v 12 vi 23 Gen iii 19 Deut xxx 28 Ps lxxxix 48
28 He is guilty of damnation Rom v 17 18 viii 6 2 Thess ii 11 12
29 He shall not as such inherit the kingdom of heaven 1 Cor xv 50 2 Thess i 9
30 He is an enemy to his children Deut xxviii 18