Vasanos alåethinåe, the true touchstone which shews both grace and nature, or, A discourse concerning self examination, by which both saints and sinners may come to know themselves whereunto are added sundry meditations relating to the Lords Supper / by Nathanael Vincent ...

MEDITATION. XIII.

I plainly perceive that all mankind have suffered shipwrack. The first man Adam had the steering of the Vessel, and he run it upon the Rocks, and lost himself and his whole progeny. All have sinned and come, short of the Glory of God. The calamity is general, the whole World is become guilty be∣fore God, there is none that understandeth or seeketh after God, there is none that doeth good no not one. 'Tis truly lamentable that the humane nature should be so infected, so cor∣rupted, as that every mind should be carnal and enmity against God, that every Heart should be like an adamant stone, that every neck should be like an iron sinew. All are born the Children of wrath, and with strong inclinations to be the Children of Disobedi∣ence. So that when the Son of God came into the World to dye and save it: He found the World lying in wickedness, secure in sin, and hastning towards Everlasting mi∣sery.