Religion & morality > Human nature in its four-fold state ... in several practical discourses

Head 11. confirmed and vindicated t'6^
requires, that a Child of Sin be a Cfiid Vr Wratr. ^
that the Law being br-oken, the Sanction chc f
fhould take Place. God as Man’s Ruler and ]■ oe.
cannot but do ■ right^ Geni xviii. 25-. No'.
righteous I’hing with God to recompenfe Sir? 'itn
V/rath, 2 tfbef.i. 6. He is of purer If
to behold Evil, Hab. i. 13. And he - all
the Workers of Iniquity, Pfa. v. 6. (3.) The H'r-
rors of -a natural Confcience prove this. The e is
a Confcience in the Breafts of Men, which can
them, they are Sinners, and therefore liable to the
Wrath of God. Let Men, at any Time, fober-
ly commune with themfelves, and they’ll -find th y
have the Witnefs in themfelves, kncwr g the Judg¬
ment of God, that they which commit juch things
are worthy of Death, Rom. i. 32. (4.) The Pangs
of the New-birth, the Work o-- the Spirit of Bon¬
dage on Eledt Souls, in order to their Qm^erfion,
demonftrate* this. Hereby their natural Sinfulnefs
and Mifery, as liable to the Wrath of God, are
plainly taught them ; filling their Hearts with Fear
of that Wrath. Now that this Spirit Bondage
is no other than the Spirit of God wh< fe Work '
to convince of Sin, Righteoufnefs, and judgmer;
(John xri. 8.). this Teftimony muft needs b /
for the Spirit of ’truth cannot witnefs an' Vr. th.
Mean While, true Believers, being fie, d :
State of Wrath, receive not the Spirit if '
again to fear, but receive the Spirit of To
Rom. viii. iy. And therefore, if Fears of th-
ture do arife, after the Soul’s Union with Chriit
they come from the Saints own Spirit, or from a
worfe. Daftly, The Sufferings cf Chrifl plainly
prove this Do&rine. Wheretore was the Son of
God, a Son under Wrath, but becaufe the ChiC
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