SECT. V.
Which needed not to have been, if Adam had stood.
FIrst, Take notice, That had Adam stood in the integrity God made him in, had he preserved the Image of God for himself and for his posterity, then there had been no occasion, no just cause for such self-abhorrency, as doth now necessarily lie upon us. Adam did not hide himself, and runne from God, neither was he asha∣med of himself, till sinne had made this dreadfull breach; In that happy time of mans innocency, there was no place for tears or repentance; There was no com∣plaining or grieving, because of a Law of sinne hurrying them, whither they would not, then Adam's heart was in his own power, he could joy and delight in God, as he pleased, but since that first transgression, there hath become that grievous ataxy, and sad disorder and confusion, under which we are to mourn and groan, as long as we live, for as we necessarily have corruptible bodies which will be pained and diseased, as long as we are on the earth, so we have also defiled and depraved soules, which will alwaies be matter of grief and sorrow to every gracious heart, so that they must necessarily cry out, Oh Lord! I would fain be better, I desire to be better, but this corrupted heart and nature of mine will not let me! The Socinians, who affirm, That Adam even in the first Crea∣tion, had such a repugnancy planted in him, and a contrariety between the mind, and the sensible part, that this prevailing made him thereby to commit that trans∣gression, do reproach God the maker of man, and make him the Author of sinne: So then this necessity of confession, and acknowledgment of our native polluti∣on, was not from the beginning, but upon Adam's transgression.