106 The Explication of the Text. Head ·IT. render · came up in .a night, Jonah vL' 10.) as if it- bad; come· out ·of the womb of the· night (as we read bf the· wpmb of the morning, ·,ffal.. ex . 3.) aad fo the birth fol-. ]owing the belly whence it came, was fooo· gct~ : e, Tbs fparks of fire arc calledfom o(the burning coal; job v. 7· \marg. Ija. xxi. 10·; 0 my t-hrefhing, and the corn (or fin) ' o/ ?ny floor, th refhen in the floor of wrath, and as it were brogght forth b)r it. Thus the natura.] man is a child C'f wrath : it comeJ i11.{ o /;i; bc'7.veh I a r: water, and like oil in- '• !J hir bones, Pfal. cix. 18. for t ho' ]ztd/1.!' w1s the or:ly · fon of perdi tion among!1 the ApoH1ts; yet all men .by na· tu re; are ·of ~he fame family. · . 2. There is the rife of this mifery-; men have it by na- , tu1'e; ' They owe it to th~i~ nature,· not to their fubftar;ce ·· or dfe,nce : for that neither is nor was fin, and therefore cannot make them children of wrath ;· tho' for fin it may be under wn.th: not to their natur..: as qualified, at man 's creation, by his Maker, but to their nature as \•itiated and corruptedby the fall. ,. ·To the vicious quality, or corruptio~ · .cf their nature (whereof before) which is tb~ir pri::cip le of athoil, and cec.fing from aa;on, the only principle in an un~ ·~ regenerate ftate. No.w; by this nature, nren are children of wrath; a~ in the time of peftilemial-infeetion', one dra,v.s in death together with thee difea!e then raging. v\' herefore feeing from our firft obeing as children of Adam;· we be corrupt chi!dren, fh~pen in iniqu;t y, conceived in fin; we are alfo, from that momen!t, c.hildten of wrath. ;. The univerfality of this mifery. All are by na ture children of wr-ath~ we, faith the ApofHe, et'fn aJ ot!en; 'JtwJ as well as Gentilu. · Thofe that are now by grace9 the children of "od, were by nature, in no better cafe; ' than thofe that ar'e fiill in their natural Hate. Laflly, There is a glorious and happy change ' intimated ' here ; we were children ·of wrath, but · are not fo novi; ~ grace has brought us out of that fearful ftate. This the · Apofie fays of himfelf and other belie\•ers. And ,thus, it well becomes the people of God to be often .fiaoding op the !:wre I·ooking back to the red· fea of the (late ·of WJ ath t~1ey we1:e -fometimes weltering in, even as. otbers. Man'r
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