I 12 lYiar/ J natural St.at!', State u. them upon rocks ' by \which they are broken 'in pieces.' 'They harden themfelves againfl:'God; and he gives up with t hem, and leaves them to Satan and their own hearts, whereby they are hardned more and more. They are ofren given llp unto ·oi!e ajJ"e ffiom, .Rom.1. 26·. T.he reios are laid on their necks ; and 'they are left to run into all .exce,fs, as t heir furi ou'S lu!ts draw them. 2. Some~imes · they meet· v;i tb quickoing Chokes, where~y their fouls beco~e like mount .Sinai ~ wbere nothing is feen, but fire and fmoke : nothing heard but the thunder of God's wrath, and the voice of the trumpet of a broken· Jaw, waxing Jouder ·and . l1u.~a ; wh ich makes them like Pa/hur, (J~r. xx. 4·) A t error to t hemfelveJ. God takes the filthy garments of their ii ;1S, which they were WOOt tO fleep io fecure)y · ; overlays– t hem with brimfione, and fets them on fire about their . ears : fo they have a hell within them. ;d!y, There is wrath on the natural man's enjoyments. '\Vha.tever be wantin·g in h·is houfe, there is one thing that · i3 never wanting there, Prov. iii. 33· Th-e curfe ofthe Lord i r in t he hcufe of th~ wicked. WJ ath is on all he ha,s; m2 t he bread that he ~a t s; t he liquor he d.rinks,and clothes which 'h e wears: His bajket and flore are curfed, Deut. xxviii• .t-7· Some thi ngs faH wro~·lg with him; an.d that comes to – pafs by virtue ef this_ wrath: other things go accord ing to his with, and there is wrath in' that too: for it is a fna.re.to h is foul; Prov. i. 32 . 'The profperity offoolsjha/1 defl;:oy tlJem This wrath turns his bleflings into curfes, MaL. ii. 2. 1 will curft J$ttr blejfings: yea,· I have curfed them 'already. The holy Jawis a killing letter to him, 2 Cor. iii. 6. The mininry of the gofpel, afavo.urofdeath unto dc:ath , chap. ii. 1 5. In the facrament of the Lord's fupper, h~ eat eth ~nd df'inketh damnation to hirnftlf, r Cor . xi . 29. Nay, more thana!lthat, Chr ifi himfel f is ro him, aflone of fl um-· iJ!ing , and a rock of offence, 1 l'et. ii. 8. Thus wrath fol– i-ows the natural man, as his fhadow doth his bod y. ljfh/y, ' He is under the power o( Satan, Affs xxvi. 1 8. The devil has overcome him, fo he is his by conqueft; his iarv.ful cap1iv~.lfa. xlix. 24· The natut al manU; C0ndemned already, John iii. 18 . and therefore under the heavy hand t)f him that hath thepw er ofdeath, that i.r,the devil. And hekeers his pr ifoner, im the prifonof a natwra.l !tate, bound ' · , buad '·
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