[2.] There is the derivation of a polluted,
corrupted nature from him: Job xiv.
4; Φρόνημα τῆς σαρκός,
Rom. viii. 7; John iii.
16. Νοὸς τῆς σαρκός,
Col. ii. 18.“Who can bring
a clean thing out of an unclean?” “That which is born of the
flesh is flesh,” and nothing else; whose wisdom and mind is corrupted also:
a polluted fountain will have polluted streams. The first person
corrupted nature, and that nature corrupts all
persons following. Now, from both these was Christ most free:—