(2.) That the loss of it is part of that
curse which was inflicted on us for sin. Whatever we come short
in of the state of the first man in innocence, whether in loss of good or
addition of evil, it is all of the curse for sin. Besides, that blindness,
ignorance, darkness, deadness, which is everywhere ascribed to us in the
state of nature, doth fully comprise that also whereof we speak.