THIS SERMON, IS GEORGE WHITEFIELD AT HIS BEST, BEAUTIFULLY AND ELOQUENTLY WRITTEN, AND THE READING THEREOF, IS LIKE LISTENING TO A SYMPHONY, AS HE PORTRAYS MAN’S DESPERATE PLIGHT, AND GOD’S ANSWER TO THAT PLIGHT. “First, I(GEORGE WHITEFIELD) shall undertake to prove, that every man naturally engendered of the offspring of Adam, is in the sight of the all-seeing, heart- searching God, only as a “piece of marred clay.”
Secondly, That being thus marred, he must necessarily be renewed: and under this head, we shall likewise point out by whose agency this mighty change is to be brought about.
These particulars being discussed, way will naturally be made for a short word of application.
First, To prove that every man naturally engendered of the offspring of Adam, is in the sight of an all-seeing, heart-searching God, only as a piece of marred clay.
Be pleased to observe, that we say every man naturally engendered of the offspring of Adam, or every man since the fall: for if we consider man as he first came out of the hands of his Maker, he was far from being in such melancholy circumstances. No; he was originally made upright; or as Moses, that sacred penman, declares, “God made him after his own image.” Surely never was so much expressed in so few words.”
