108 Man'J mllural State, Sta~e H. OHt of t~e ~outh of God bimfelf, that it will ruin you if it be not removed, lfa. xxvii . r I. It iJ a people of na .underflt:~ndiog: therefore heJhat 'ttt-'lde them, w:/! ntJt have mercy on the.rn. See ,_ .ThejJ: i. 8 . Hof 4· 9· (2.) No out– ward privileges can exempt men from this fl:ate of wrath ; for the Jew!, the children .of the kingdom, God's peculiar ,,.~people, were childr,en ofwrath, even as rJt.hen. loo' ye be ·church~ members, partakers of all eh urch privileges; . tho' you be de.fcended of godly parents, of great· and ho- 1 nourable f~milies; be wh at ye wil1, ye are by nature heirs of hell, children, ofwrath. (3.) No profdiion,, nor attain– ments in a profefllon of religion, ·do or can exempt a man from this fl:ate of wrath. Pauf was one of the llraiteft fe~ of the Jewijh religion, Afh xxvi. 5• .yet a.childofwrath, even a1 others, till he was converted. The clofe hypo· c1 ite, and the profane, are.al ike as to their flate; howeve.r different their .conver fations' be ; and they will be alike .in their fatal end, Pfa/, cxxv. 5. As for fuch ai !.urn a)ide m;to their croofied 'Ways, the Lord /hall /fad them forth ~tuith tje workers of iniquity. (4 .), Young ,ones that are yet but fetting out into the ..wo.dd, have not that to do, to make • themfel ves children of wr'ilt h, .by followi:pg the grac~lefs multitude. They are..children of wrath by natu.re; fo it i~ dope already: they were born heirs of heH; they wiH in· deed make themfelves more fo, if they do not, while they _ ~re young, .flee from:that wrath theywere born tot by fle.~n ing to Jefus Chri!t Lajlly, Whatever me.n are now by grace, they v/ere even as others by nature. And this may be a f<~.d meditation to them, that have been at eafe. from their youth, and have had no changes. Now, thefe ·,things being premifed,; I fhall, in the fid! • place, iliew what this Hate of wrath is; next, confirm the docrrioe ; and t~en' apply it. . · I. 1 am to !hew what this fl:ate ·of wrath is. But who can fully d.efcribe the wrath of an angry God ? None can do it. Yet fo much of it r!laybe difcovered, as may ferve to convince men of_ th~ abfolute neceffity of .fleeing :to Je.fus Chrifl, out of that ftat~ · ofwrath. Anger in men is a paf· fio.n and·commotion of the (pirit for an injury recc:ived, with a defire to refent the fame. Wl:ren it comes to a height• .and ,is fi~ed in one's fpirit, it'is call~a wrath. Now there .· a(e
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